The IT begins to create private clouds

Thus, customers of IT company, having implemented simple and fast projects of migration of the IT infrastructure in a private cloud based on the Windows Server platform using a set of programs and offers of Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud, some of the first in Russia will be able to estimate advantages of providing infrastructure as service.

The Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud program announced in the fall of 2010 offers a wide choice of the approved configurations for deployment of a private cloud, including computing and network resources, resources for data storage and also software for virtualization and management. These programs and offers will help to reduce risks and to increase the speed of deployment of a cloud.

For creation of private clouds of Microsoft selected 300 leading partners worldwide. The IT company became one of such partners in Russia. That sales managers could inform competently of advantages of cloud computing customers, at the end of 2010 the IT with assistance of specialists of Microsoft provided training of the sellers in Moscow and regions.

Advantages of cloud solutions of Microsoft in IT consider an opportunity to reach the high level of standardization and automation of DPCs with their help, to optimize use hardware and the software, it is essential to reduce energy consumption, to simplify process of licensing and thus to reduce the cost of ownership of infrastructure.

Solutions of Microsoft for creation of private clouds support the main hypervisors of other developers that allows to save the investments which are earlier made in virtualization infrastructure. Transition to use of a hypervisor of Hyper-V is performed without serious consequences, with the minimum breaks in providing services.

"The aspiration to optimization, standardization, increase in level of automation is a top trend of development of modern DPCs. Transition to the concept of providing infrastructure as service will allow IT departments at accomplishment of tasks to reach the highest indicators, having excluded a set of excess works from process, and use of the principles of dynamic DPCs will help to reduce the costs connected with idle times of the hardware and excessive electricity consumption. Transfer only of one server to a private cloud can bring economy in hundreds of thousands of rubles a year" — the Arkhangelsk Denis, the director of the department of the system software of IT company reported.

"The IT company is a reliable partner of Microsoft and has deep examination in plot area of modern IT infrastructure of the enterprise based on our solutions. We are glad that the IT became one of the first partners in the field of separate cloud solutions and already actively implements appropriate technologies. Transformation of IT infrastructure of the enterprise in a private cloud — an important step on the way of increase in efficiency and importance of IT for business. We are sure that specialists of IT company will be able to help our customers to pass correctly all way and to achieve excellent results" — Malanin Vasily, the product manager for creation of DPC, Microsoft in Russia noted.

The IT plans creation of the center of demonstration of cloud computing based on own DPC at new Moscow office and also together with vendor suggests to carry out such demonstrations in the Technology center Microsoft.