The transition to the CROC cloud helped ABC Vkusa to increase the performance of the IT infrastructure by a quarter

2023: Up to a Quarter More IT Productivity

"Alphabet of Taste" applied cloud economy. The company CROC announced this on May 18, 2023.

The transfer of its IT infrastructure to the CROC Cloud will allow Azbuka Vkusa to save up to 20% of the cost of its maintenance and maintenance within 5 years. But already in May 2023, the retailer has increased the performance of IT systems, fault tolerance of equipment, and the time required to launch services and their updates (Time2Market) has decreased from several days to several hours.

The transition to the CROC Cloud also helped to increase the performance of the retailer's IT infrastructure by a quarter (+ 25%), and the SLA (service level agreement) increased from 97% to 99.5%. Even + 2% in the fault tolerance indicator can keep the company an impressive amount.

The company's ecosystem for May 2023 includes an online store and a mobile application with a user audience of hundreds of thousands of customers. Also, in the cloud, internal services are performed for organizing business processes, supply chains, logistics, warehouse are managed, etc. In addition, the retailer uses Kubernetes as a Service, DBaaS and additional security systems.

Time2market retailer's services decreased from 2-5 days to several hours. Previously, before deploying the service, the developers of the ABC of Taste needed to prepare a technical assignment for equipment, validate it with technical support, transfer it to system administrators for deploying a virtual machine, after which the code was rolled out and the service was launched. It took several days. Going to the cloud allowed you to get away from this bulky system. Now the developer just needs to fill out a short template in Terraform and with the help of Gitlab CI, the virtual machine automatically rolls out and rises in the cloud infrastructure.

The main task of the ABC of Taste is to provide the buyer with a large range of products, new emotions and a convenient service. The use of cloud infrastructure gives us the opportunity to concentrate on this. In addition to budget savings, clouds allow customer resources to remain operational in the face of a sharp increase in traffic and a high level of service, increase operational efficiency and increase competitiveness, "said Dmitry Kuzevanov, technical director of Azbuka Vkusa.

We see that the approach that the ABC of Taste has chosen is becoming more and more popular. Companies want to identify the main value of their business and work on it to become stronger than competitors, and they are ready to give everything else to. outsource The driver for choosing such a scenario was also the events of the last year. After the departure of many foreign players, it is easier and calmer for companies to transfer their IT infrastructure to the cloud - they know that in this case they will have enough capacity, qualified support, SLA, payment for use. One headache will be less, - added the director of business development of CROC Cloud Services. Sergey Zinkevich

The retail market trade is increasingly increasing its capabilities in, e-commerce launching online stores, delivery services and mobile applications. Any digital ecosystem requires centralized management. It is cloud technology that allows you to solve this problem and increase the level of competitiveness. In addition, the transition to a cloud that fully complies with regulatory requirements allows companies to be confident in the security of customer personal data stored on the provider's side, "added CROC, Director of Business Development in Retail and FMCG. Dmitry Smirnov

2022: Plan to move IT infrastructure to the cloud

The ABC of Taste will transfer its IT infrastructure to the CROC Cloud. CROC announced this on September 6, 2022. An agreement on cooperation and the start of work was signed in August 2022. The company's digital ecosystem includes not only internal services for organizing business processes, managing supply chains, logistics, etc., but also e-commerce systems and a mobile application for buyers on whom ABC of Taste bets in the field of business development. And now the CROC Cloud Services team will be responsible for the stability of these systems.

{{quote 'Ours IT infrastructure includes more than two hundred physical, located in servers three locations. Moscow This equipment houses internal business systems,,, ERP, and CRM WMS TMS BPM others, as well as client services, such as online store a mobile application, the user base of which is hundreds of thousands of people. There is a difficult migration process ahead. In addition, we are gradually planning to expand our cloudy infrastructure, increasing it several times. In this regard, we were looking for one that provider can answer all our questions and solve problems not only today, but also in the future, when new difficult challenges arise, - said the Dmitry Kuzevanov technical director of Azbuka Vkusa. }}

The choice in favor of the CROC Cloud was due to high-performance processors (from 3.1 GHz to 3.6 GHz), a high level of reliability, a large portfolio of services that can be deployed from the cloud, as well as experience in performing complex and large projects. In the future, all this will allow ABC of Taste to improve the quality of the provided IT services for the end consumer. In addition, due to more powerful processors, the company will be able to additionally save on paying for resources, since the CROC Cloud uses hourly billing.

Customer will use Kubernetes as a Service and DBaaS to host key business applications based on. containers In addition, within the framework project , it is planned to connect the cloud infrastructure with the corporate network over a dedicated channel, as well as connect additional security systems from the cloud, for example, protection against. DDoS-attacks All this will ensure the safety of both internal and external services that are actively used by end customers of ABC Vkusa.

For the ABC of Taste, it was important to find a balance of two aspects in the cloud - reliability and manufacturability. Reliability consists not only of the data center, what equipment and software are used in it, what security tools the cloud is protected, but also of positive feedback from current clients of the Cloud CROC. And manufacturability is provided by the ability to use the latest DevOps and PaaS tools from the cloud. Thanks to our many years of integrator experience, a large portfolio of partner solutions, as well as a cloud of our own development, we can provide both for our clients, - said Maxim Berezin, Director of Business Development at CROC Cloud Services.

The migration of all business applications and services of the ABC of Taste to the CROC Cloud will be carried out in stages. The project will be implemented by the customer's internal team, as well as CROC specialists who will provide expert support at all stages of the relocation IT of the systems. At the beginning of September 2022, CROC helps customers ensure consistency data and continuity business processes when transferring critical systems, applications and services to the cloud. Together, the companies intend to complete the migration to the new cloud platform in six months.

Following the change in the behavior of consumers who are increasingly using various applications in their smartphones, changes occur in retail. The retail market is actively focused on creating digital ecosystems and developing its own reliable and scalable IT infrastructure in order to grow new sites and services as channels of communication with customers, as well as translate internal business processes into digital. Cloud technologies in this case are the most successful option for transferring both applications and, for example, CRM systems to them. Clouds allow you to maintain the efficiency of client resources in the context of a sharp increase in traffic and a high level of service, increase the efficiency of operating activities and increase competitiveness, - commented Dmitry Smirnov, Director of Business Development in Retail and FMCG of the CROC IT company.