Astra Linux and Delta Solutions: Hardware and Software for Creating Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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• Virtualization. Classification and applications
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

2021: PAC Creation for VDI Deployment

Astra Linux Group of Companies announced on June 15, 2021 that together with Delta Solutions Group of Companies on the basis of their own products they developed a fully domestic software and hardware complex (PAK) for the deployment of virtual desktop infrastructures. The project was implemented on the instructions of Rosenergoatom Concern and in June 2021 has already passed the first test tests.

As of June 2021, PAK capacities allow you to organize a fault-tolerant configuration for the simultaneous work of 1 thousand users, and in the future their number will increase 10 times.

It is noteworthy that this PAC is fully designed on the basis of domestic products: from the operating system (OS), virtualization tools and the VDI connection broker to servers and storage systems. The software base for it was the Astra Linux OS family, the Brest Virtualization Tools PC and the Termidesk for Astra connection manager. The hardware was the domestic servers and storage systems Delta Computers (part of Delta Solutions Group of Companies).

The immediate plans of the developers are to expand the PAK with a domestic system for backing up and restoring RuBackup data.

According to the CEO of Astra LinuxIli Group Sivtsev, all this will allow the companies which will use danny the PACK ICE, it is essential to cut down costs on IT systems and also to provide their centralized and convenient administration and safe remote work of employees.

{{quote 'It is important for us that the first implementation of the complex is taking place at Rosenergoatom, since the Concern is implementing a project to transfer the infrastructure to Russian solutions. This is a confirmation of the high competitiveness of our PAK, "Ilya Sivtsev emphasized. }}

Our three-way collaboration was an example of cooperation between software developers, equipment manufacturers and customers. We were interested in a working integrated solution based on a stack of domestic technologies, and such a PAC was created under our patronage. As of June 2021, its pilot implementation has already been launched, which is taking place in the Kalininsky industry data center for users of the Central Office of the Concern, "said Sergey Migalin.

According to the general director of Delta Solutions Group of Companies Andrei Chernyshev, the created joint decision can become a precedent in the IT market, confirming that domestic technologies and developments are highly competitive with Western counterparts - both in terms of cost and functionality.

We focus on the world experience of equipment development, take into account the practice of operating Russian customers, as well as trends in import substitution. All this together gives our customers the opportunity to realize their needs on Russian equipment with characteristics that are not inferior to the products of world leaders IT in the industry, "said Andrei Chernyshev, stressing that the PAK created is positioned as a" box solution "ready integration for any data center in the territory RUSSIAN FEDERATION and. countries CIS