ITMS fully localizes IT infrastructure in CloudMTS cloud

2023: Moving IT Systems to the MTS Cloud

The group of companies ITMS (products under the glo, Dunhill, Kent, Vogue, Rothmans, Lucky Strike and Java brands Russia) transferred from foreign servers to all cloud MTS their IT systems, including, and, Microsoft Exchange VDI enterprise management systems having completely localized them on the territory. In addition to Russia providing virtual infrastructure, she also CloudMTS took over support, mail domains services and for ON the joint work of company employees. During the migration, more than 400 terabytes were transferred. MTS data announced this on December 27, 2023.

The ITMS group of companies (formerly British American Tobacco in Russia) has been using the provider's virtual infrastructure since 2017. Then the company transferred support for the operating systems of its employees to the MTS cloud, and also deployed HaaS CloudMTS at its factory in St. Petersburg. In 2022, ITMS decided to localize all IT systems within Russia. The company chose MTS as the contractor. The provider from scratch created a hybrid domain infrastructure in Russia, including users, groups and policies to ensure the operation of corporate services in the country and took over its administration.

In parallel, ITMS infrastructure services, such as SharePoint Exchange, were transferred to a failover cluster in the CloudMTS cloud and are fully localized in Russia. provider Some of the archive data of these services and about three thousand accounts and workstations of users who were previously abroad were also copied into the virtual infrastructure servers. In total, CloudMTS moved more than 400 terabytes of data to its cloud during the move.

The provider fully took over support for the localized Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and ITMS domain infrastructure in the country. And he also deployed more than a hundred virtual desktops in his cloud for remote work of teams of suppliers and partners of the company.

One of the most important projects within the framework of cooperation was the transfer of the ITMS enterprise management system from SAP to 1C and its localization in Russia. CloudMTS in this project acted as a supplier of virtual infrastructure, in which the production and warehouse management systems 1C ERP, 1C WMS, 1C MES, Datareon ESB and 1C ZUP were deployed, and also took over their support at the level of virtual machines and operating systems inside.

It was important for us to carry out migration seamlessly. The well-coordinated work of the ITMS and CloudMTS teams made it possible to transfer the IT system so that none of the company's employees even noticed it: the factory in St. Petersburg and our numerous offices throughout the country continued to work like a watch. And due to the fact that now support for the virtual infrastructure and the IT systems deployed in it is carried out by one company, many processes in the field of their administration have been simplified. For example, after migrating Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint to the cloud, CloudMTS has significantly improved SLA for these programs, "said Arthur Sevryugin, ITMS IT Infrastructure Manager.

In total, there are more than 300 ITMS servers in the CloudMTS cloud as of December 2023. The provider took over not only their support, but replaced their antivirus protection with software from domestic vendors.