Stockmann copes with growth of requests from buyers using Cloud of Croc

2020: Transfer of IT infrastructure in a cloud

On September 15, 2020 it became known that the network of department stores STOCKMANN uses the Cloud Croc for support of work of online store which is daily visited by more than one million buyers. The need for permanent availability of the website and cutting of costs for support became key motives of the choice of a cloud. By own forces maintenance of computing infrastructure, according to the client, would be several times more expensive.

The decision on migration of e-commerce of business STOCKMANN in the Cloud of CROC was made in April, 2020, several weeks prior to the planned annual large-scale action "Crazy days". Preparation for increase in traffic of clients became a project objective. In 2020 this action on combination of circumstances matched with lokdauny in Russia. As a result of the increased demand for online orders the number of addresses of buyers increased by 12 times. Thanks to a scalable cloud platform IT infrastructure of the retailer continued to work effectively during the peak period.

According to representatives of the company, practice of use of cloud resources helps to receive high quality of service at the optimal price. Construction of the geographically distributed data centers is not in development plans for department stores STOCKMANN – monthly service of virtual servers costs retail chain stores cheaper, than construction and service of own. At the same time use of quickly increased cloud resources allows to maintain stability of work of e - commerce - systems during regularly carried out promo-companies.

The first five months of use of the Cloud of CROC we are happy. Managed to be convinced of fault tolerance of the platform and professionalism and also customer focus of a command. Problem solving happens quickly. On ordinary requests it is not necessary to create requests and to resort to other bureaucratic processes. To contact rather once the manager — Sergey Fadeyev, the Director of the department of e-commerce noted STOCKMANN.

Self-isolation became check on durability of most of retailers. In a prize there were those which managed to be prepared for a wave of online orders or to quickly take measures that IT systems did not fail because of a flow of visitors. STOCKMANN proves an example: the competent IT strategy and a course towards outsourcing of computing resources really helps to increase business performance and to be prepared for sudden changes in economy — Maxim Berezin, the development director of services told Croc Cloud services.