Customers: Rosneft of the Tax Code Product: PostgreSQL of DBMS Project date: 2016/03
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In 2015 within import substitution in the field of information technologies Rosneft carried out the internal infrastructure project on the choice of DBMS for a class of small and medium business applications, the head of department of IT architecture of the company Victor Mikhalev in February, 2016 at the PgConf.Russia 2016 conference told.
According to Mikhalev, the project included testing of several DBMS, including MS SQL, and the best results among import-substituting products in tests were shown by PostgreSQL. On it recommendations for further use in specific projects of Rosneft are already accepted - generally connected with production and investigation of hydrocarbons, he told. In a number of projects active implementation of PostgreSQL already begins.
Rosneft scooped data on different DBMS for testing from several sources:register of domestic software, the internal register of software and data of Association of the Russian software. The initial list for testing included about 13 DBMS from which preliminary selection for a full stroke of testing there underwent DBMS. During testing also MS SQL was added to them.
Mikhalev noted that Rosneft carried out the project by own forces, without involvement of third-party contractors: on the one hand, having considered that it has enough internal examination for this task, with another – that testing was completely independent.
Speaking about premises of active work on import substitution of software, Mikhalev noted that Rosneft was puzzled with it and earlier. In 2015 to year against the background of sanctions Rosneft stirred up this activity: some of its structures fall under sanctions and cannot use the software from the USA and the majority of EU countries in the projects.
In 2015 Rosneft came up against a situation when against the background of sanctions one of foreign vendors disconnected it from technical support for five months: during this period the company did not receive software updatings, patches, etc., and at the same time had to provide the continuity of services for the business, Victor Mikhalev told. The company name, left Rosneft without technical support, he preferred not to sound.
"All these five months we perfected legal formulations which would allow us to conclude additional documents further to use this software. When we faced descriptions of sectoral sanctions, found there many uncertainty and ambiguous treatments which can be interpreted differently", - Mikhalev noted. |
Rosneft decided to begin with DBMS and for the small systems, gradually moving also towards replacement of other products, including on large applications, Victor Mikhalev tells. In addition to Postgres "Rosneft" DBMS is going to select for use still some one – "purely domestic" a system. One of such DBMS participated in tests. Rosneft specified according to the results of tests for bottlenecks of a product and expects that during 2016 the developer will eliminate defects and will release the improved release suitable for tasks of the oil company.
The choice of the import-substituting operating system under servers with DBMS should become the next stage. According to plans, the company is going to decide on it in the 3rd quarter 2016.
Regarding import substitution of business applications a question more difficult, Mikhalev noted. In Rosneft about 20 classes of different applications are used, and in a row from them the Russian products without fail are already applied and expand the presence. On each application class in each case the separate decision on use of the Russian products is made, he told.