Syssoft helped Holding of Akwa to optimize costs for IT infrastructure

2020: Migration of infrastructure in a cloud based on VMware

The Syssoft company ("System software"), the center of examination in the field of the software, completed the project on migration of infrastructure of the producer of mineral waters of Holding of Akwa on a cloud service of Selectel based on VMware. It became known on November 18, 2020. Migration from a cloud of other large Russian provider allowed to scale IT infrastructure of the company by 4 times when preserving the same level of monthly costs.

The project was performed on six different platforms "Holding Akwa", including head office in Moscow, the plants in Yessentuki and Zheleznovodsk and also a warehouse in Mineralnye Vody. The decision on start of the project was made because at Holding of Akwa need significantly appeared to increase resources of IT infrastructure and the number of its users and also to provide its fault tolerance for business continuity support.

Migration is carried out in several steps. At first infrastructure Holding of Akwa was transferred to VMware Selectel Cloud. Then the hybrid configuration with a cloud platform for joint work and device management then specialists of Syssoft performed migration from a free mail service on a corporate mail service of vendor was configured.

Within the project a secure access through VPN of staff of Holding of Akwa to services 1C, a terminal server, file storage, Avaya telephony, internal systems is implemented. In addition, the Syssoft command configured permanent backup of infrastructure with a possibility of granular recovery using the solution Veeam.

It is difficult to provide the successful company without use of technologies. For example, in the period of a pandemic when all of us are in a varying degree limited in the actions and movements, it is important to provide and save operability of the company in the remote mode. We managed it, including, thanks to cooperation with the Syssoft command which consistently carried out migration of IT infrastructure to a cloud service — Svyatoslav Vilk, the CEO told Holding of Akwa.

More and more companies completely transfer the resources to clouds: and in this project 'nothing on the earth' was an initial message. We increased the number of users from 30 to 130 jobs, having saved the overall level of monthly costs for virtual resources and support. The next stage of our cooperation — study of the project on disaster tolerance, based on global provider AWS — Timur Badretdinov, the head of department of infrastructure solutions of Syssoft company told.