El Tempo rents IT resources in "cloud"

On November 24, 2014 it became known of transfer of a part of corporate IT infrastructure of El Tempo company to a cloud environment of Helios Data company.

Project Tasks

Specialists of El Tempo company made the decision on development of IT infrastructure by means of lease of virtual capacities instead of purchase of new servers and the software.

"We were faced by a task to provide uninterrupted access to a number of our databases from any place in the world, at the same time to increase their fault tolerance and performance of the main IT services. To create understanding from what to begin and to select what model of development of IT infrastructure, we decided to carry out, first of all, technology IT audit by forces of the qualified service company. Having analyzed the market, we selected Helios Data company as the contractor. The main selection terms became the term of carrying out audit and project development on development of IT infrastructure and also embodiment term in life of this project. Specialists Helios Data could propose an optimal solution and flexible support system on acceptable price policy" — Alexey Fedorenko, the head of IT department of El Tempo company told.

Project Progress

Within the first stage of project implementation, the 1C system for automation of work of retail stores and remote branches is transferred to a cloud environment. Work of staff of the company is implemented through terminal access.

At the second stage of the project transferred a 1C system for automation of work of distribution centers of collecting and reservation of orders.

Within the project Helios Data provides backup and data recovery, technical support and information security of the systems of the customer. At the approved level of providing service (SLA), availability of the provided resources at the level of not less than 99.5% is provided to the customer, at the same time the minimum response time on requests of users makes one hour, and runtime of a request — two hours.

Project Results

"In addition to the description of a current status of IT systems, determinations of key problems and bottlenecks, within audit by Helios Data company were developed several scenarios of development of IT systems in El Tempo company: from the maximum use of the existing resources of the company before transfer of the most part of IT services in a cloud. The option of upgrade of own capacities of the customer with gradual transfer of services in a private cloud was jointly selected" — Nikolay Afanasyev, the commercial director noted Helios Data.