Sberbank transferred 43 thousand servers to its own operating system

Sberbank has fulfilled the plan to migrate the bank's servers to its own operating system - more than 43 thousand servers have been transferred to Platform V SberLinux. Sberbank announced this in its annual report for 2023, TAdviser discovered.

The Platform V SberLinux OS Server operating system is based on open source solutions and is designed to manage enterprise servers, as well as create an efficient and secure environment for executing workloads of server applications, databases, distributed computing, containerization and virtualization, artificial intelligence, etc.

The solution allows you to import substitution of popular foreign Servers OS based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which have left the Russian market.

source = Sberbank

Sberbank could not tell TAdviser about the details of the large-scale migration project. Earlier, the bank's vacancies for the development of its own OS said that this is a project to implement the initiative of technological independence from the supply of licenses and the provision of vendor support.

In addition to Platform V SberLinux OS Server, Sberbank also released Sber OS its own operating system for automated workplaces based on. Linux TAdviser that previously wrote Sberbank is conducting a project to transfer employees' jobs to this solution.

In its annual report, Sberbank claims that in 2023, in terms of vendor substitution and migration, more than 88% of its IT landscape was in a targeted state, and that the bank completed the abandonment of seven "large foreign vendors."