Riquest uses Nutanix to increase the speed and reliability of applications

2021: 8-Node Support Renewal

Annual 8-Node Support Renewal, KPBS ASP Support.

The project implementation period is from March to April 2021.

2020: Improving Application Speed and Reliability

On January 15, 2021, Nutanix announced that Riquest Group expanded the application of the company's solutions in its data center. Corporate IT systems and services of Riquest Group operate on the Nutanix hyperconvergent (HCI) platform, as a result of which the performance and reliability of their work has increased, and the monitoring and management of the entire computing infrastructure has been simplified.

Riquest Group of Companies is a supplier of b2b-services for cleaning, washing and dry cleaning throughout Russia. Its clients as of January 2021 are more than 2000 companies and budget organizations. To service them, Riquest Group manages a distributed network of 32 service and logistics centers and 19 industrial laundry complexes. The company uses Nutanix solutions in the corporate data center. It serves central and regional offices, production sites, as well as remote jobs of employees in 30 cities of Russia.

The transition to the Nutanix hyperconvergent infrastructure took place in three stages. First, testing confirmed the high performance of Nutanix HCI for real loads. Then, Nutanix appliances in the 2x2U form factor replaced the 12x2U servers of another manufacturer from which 1C applications and MS SQL databases were migrated. A year later, Riquest took advantage of the platform in the form of a fast scaling opportunity and expanded the Nutanix cluster to 8 nodes, increasing computing capabilities, disk space and the safety margin of the enterprise data center. Testing, consulting, delivery, deployment and solution support were provided by KPBS, a Nutanix partner with Cloud Champion status.

All key corporate applications and information services of Riquest Group operate on the Nutanix platform. According to the results of the implementation, their productivity increased by 35-40%. Fault tolerance has increased: even if several cluster nodes fail at once, systems will not interrupt, and users will not notice a failure. Simplified data center administration with intelligent software that combines monitoring and management of hardware, virtualization, data network, and storage.

Our goal was to translate information services into the most efficient and efficient software and hardware platform, the choice of which would allow both in the medium and long term to always correspond to the growing scale of the business. That is why we conducted serious pre-design surveys on the choice of both the manufacturer and the starting architecture of the hyperconvergent platform, "says Sergey Afanasyev, head of the Rikvest IT service.

We see that Nutanix products show themselves well in customer data centers for typical tasks such as 1C applications. In addition to high performance for these loads, Russian companies receive all the qualities for which our products are appreciated by customers around the world. Fault tolerance, capacity monitoring and administration, rapid recovery of applications and data after failures - all this helps to ensure the high availability of IT services even if companies do not use dedicated backup capacity, "said Nutanix Regional Director in Russia and SNGURI Aristarkhov.

With the help of Nutanix, Riquest Group of Companies radically simplified work with virtual machines, expansion, and capacity allocation. Built-in recovery from snapshots eliminated the consequences in the event of a developer error. The team did not have to abandon its expertise on Hyper-V, since Nutanix offers flexibility not only in choosing hardware platforms, but also hypervisors. During the pandemic period, administrators can manage the solution from the phone or from the Prism web interface while at home, and self-healing mechanisms allow them to be confident in the infrastructure: the cluster withstands hardware failures and performs recovery. If necessary, KPBS support replaces components according to SLA. The achieved continuity of business processes is critical for the success of Riquest Group of Companies, since the company participates in gostenders with sanctions for disrupting contracts, "comments Alexei Orlov, head of Nutanix at KPBS.