The project of a hybrid cloud solution in IT infrastructure of Cersanit

Premises to start the infrastructure project in Cersanit company

Driving forces of the project:

• The board of the Company in the long-term development strategy set the ambitious tasks:
• Implementation of new IT solutions for business: ERP SCM Demand Planning, BI
• Minimization of IT of risks for business
• Optimization of cost of ownership of infrastructure assets

The limiting factors:

• Outdated infrastructure
• High cost of ownership of IT company assets
• The decentralized model of providing IT services in the company
• Difficulties of administration of distributed computing systems

The scheme of the organization of an information network of the company prior to the beginning of the project in Cersanit

Implementation of the infrastructure project

Solution:

• Creation of the centralized infrastructure model using technologies of virtualization for decrease in TCO, increase in fault tolerance, improvement of controllability.
• Use of cloud applicaions, there where it is profitable in terms of balance price/quality.

Action plan:

• Inventory of IT of assets (software, equipment)
• Choice of optimal technical solution
• Deployment
• Beginning of operation

Advantages of use of technologies of virtualization of a server framework

• Reducing costs for acquisition and support of the equipment.
• Reduction of the park of servers and network equipment.
• Reduction of the staff of IT employees.
• Simplification of procedures of management and administration.
• Reduction of time of deployment and backup.

The choice of the solution for virtualization of a server framework is VMware vSphere

The choice of provider of cloud solutions for business - Microsoft Office 365

The used equipment

• Physical servers (x3): Supermicro SYS-6018R-WTRT, Intel (R) of Xeon (R) of 2CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GH, 256Gb RAM, SAS 6Gbe, Vmware of ESXI 6.5
• Storage system (x1): IBM Storwize 3700V, 64Tb, Easy tier lic. SSD+SAS+NLSAS
• Network equipment – Cisco, HP, FortiGate

Project implementation results

• The powerful and reliable computing cluster for IT solutions is created.
• Costs for non-core activities for support of standard applications for office work and communications are reduced by 45%
• There was a possibility of use of applications for business out of perimeter of a local network of the company.
• Required level of information security is provided.

Compliance of real project costs to the planned budget:

• Equipment, licenses (CAPEX) -7.5 million rubles.
• Subscriptions to cloud services,
• colocation, data transmission (OPEX) -2.6 million rubles/year

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On presentation materials "Deployment of a hybrid cloud solution in IT to infrastructure of Cersanit company" Kamko Alexey, Direktor po informatsionnym tekhnologiyam OOO Cersanit Trade, 2017