St. Petersburg State Library for the Blind has placed a project for training on the vStack platform

2023: Transition to vStack

The hyperconverged solution for virtualizations vStack the comprehensive project "" UPHOLSTERED has become a platform for deploying a training platform. St. Petersburg State Special Central Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired The choice the Russian of platform made it possible to import substitution of foreign and ON reduce virtualization costs. OBIT announced this on December 12, 2023.

The St. Petersburg library for the blind and visually impaired with the help of the OBIT company has transferred part of its services to external data centers. To deploy the training platform, the Russian vStack solution was connected - an alternative to the American company VMware.

The library has placed a platform on vStack for the Knowledge Without Borders project, which provides people with disabilities to sight with access to training courses and knowledge bases. - IT The operator chose vStack as an alternative solution to VMware's overseas service to reduce virtualization costs. The project was implemented in conditions of limited deadlines and budget.

In a similar way, other projects of the IT solutions operator were implemented. Thanks to cooperation with the Russian manufacturer of the hyperconverged platform, OBIT implements services based on the vStack cloud, closes customer tasks without attracting foreign solutions and scales its business by attracting new customers. The company plans to continue to use the Russian platform as part of complex solutions.

When creating cloud services for our customers, we undoubtedly drew attention to vStack. vStack is a hyperconverged solution that combines computing resources, storage, and network management; with high performance with low CPU load and variability by supporting a wide range of hardware. vStack allows you to organize a metro cluster, which provides reliability, a universal API for easy management, automatic infrastructure redundancy, support for a variety of virtual networks and ease of component replacement. The decision is included in the register of Russian software, - said Kirill Timofeev, head of the infrastructure and services operation department at OBIT.

We developed vStack five years ago, when no one could predict the departure of foreign manufacturers. Therefore, we never set ourselves the goal of completely replacing the American solution. Instead, we tried to take the best of foreign experience and shift it to the realities of our country. And many have already appreciated the advantages of our product. Thanks to cooperation with OBIT, even more Russian companies that are in search of alternative solutions will be able to switch to the Russian vStack platform, "said Stanislav Mril, CEO of vStack.