Akronis Data Protection protects Tatarstan's energy system

2021: Using Acronis Data Protection

Akronis Data Protection protects Tatarstan's energy system. This was announced on July 16, 2021 by Akronis-Infoprivita.

JSC Network Company of Tatarstan is one of the ten major electric grid companies in Russia.

The Network Company JSC includes its own Network Management Center and another nine dispatch centers in each of the company's branches. All of them are intended for operational monitoring and control of main equipment installed at substations of JSC "Network Company."

Control centers of JSC Network Company were created over the past few years and were initially equipped with backup tools built using Akronis technologies. At the same time, the management of Network Company JSC sought to ensure the uniformity of all technical means used, including information protection solutions.

Products "Akronis Infoprotection" are involved in JSC "Network Company" as part of information security subsystems of software and technical complexes of automated control and technological control systems of CCNs and branches, relay protection monitoring systems and APCS substations. In addition, Akronis Infoprotection solutions provide backup in the data center of the Network Company Management and branch data centers.

Automated systems of control centers ensure the functioning of the company's critical processes related to the management of operation modes of electric grid facilities. Failure of such a system can paralyze the management of the region's energy supply. Therefore information , about the parameters and status of managed objects is critical for ensuring the operation of the entire system. These are the current state of the equipment, historical data, network models and topologies, various data for mode calculations, electronic logs, information on applications, etc. The total amount of information to be backed up reaches 100 TB.

When choosing a solution, the company's specialists relied on several criteria. First of all, it was supposed to provide backup both physical and. virtual servers In addition, the ability to implement backup at the application level, including such as Active Directory or, was a prerequisite. SQL Server Finally, another important criterion for the choice was the compliance of the solution with the requirements of the policy import substitution followed by Network Company JSC.

Separate backup storage nodes are located in each control center. In addition, another copy is sent to a centralized storage site located in the company's own data center.

{{quote 'We have known Acronis technologies for many years. If we talk about the technical qualities of the solution, then first of all we need to mention cross-platform. Support for different operating systems is very important for companies such as ours, where many platforms are used. These solutions are equally successful when used in virtual infrastructure, on physical servers, on workstations, "said Sergey Zykov, head of the cybersecurity center of Network Company JSC. }}

In addition, among the advantages of Akronis Data Protection, Sergey Zykov points out the convenience of managing the decision. As an example, he gives the option of delegating some backup operations to certain contractors. At the same time, the specialists of JSC "Network Company" retain control over the actions of the personnel of contracting companies and the implementation of backup plans.

Finally, we are very pleased with the work of the Network Company and the technical support service of Akronis ITProtect.

Solutions do not differ in the complexity of deployment and configuration, we implement them on our own. However, at some points, we needed the help of the developer. And the specialists of Akronis ITProtect worked out our requests as quickly and efficiently as possible, "emphasizes Sergey Zykov. - Incidents that led to data damage during the operation of the infrastructure of automated control centers, relay protection monitoring systems and APCS substations did not happen - they are quite young. But in the enterprise data center, where Acronis technologies have been used for backup for more than five years, there have been such incidents. After the technical failures were resolved, we recovered data from existing backups that are located on a dedicated backup system managed by Acronis. Recovery was very quick, and this allowed not only to completely avoid data loss, but also to resume the operation of information systems as soon as possible.

The solutions of "Akronis Infoprika" turned out to be very convenient for solving such problems, "emphasizes Sergey Zykov. - Using them it is very easy to transfer the contents of the physical server to the virtual server. We save time and significantly accelerate the migration process. This functionality of Akronis Data Protection in our company is in great demand.

Network Company JSC plans to expand the application of Akronis Data Protection to other facilities, primarily substations that have critical systems that contain servers, workstations that will be equipped with backup tools over time.