Aquarius and Astra: Aquarius AIC PAC

Main article: What is IaaS

2024: Presentation by PAC Aquarius AIC

The company Aquarius"" and Astra Group"" have developed a hardware and software cloudy infrastructure complex - Aquarius AIC. PAC allows you to implement, private or public cloud including distributed, and flexibly manage virtual infrastructure and its components. This was announced Aquarius by "" on November 21, 2024.

𝓲

Aquarius

It is a highly adaptive and secure cloud solution designed to create a software-defined infrastructure layer. The main quality of the solution is the provision of the entire range of necessary services: computing resource lease (IaaS), a ready-made platform with certain settings for various tasks (PaaS), a completely ready-made solution (SaaS) to ensure compliance with corporate standards for both large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses.

The PAC hardware platform is completely built on the basis of devices from one vendor and includes high-performance servers, a storage system and Aquarius switching equipment. The complex is built on Astra Infrastructure Cloud (AIC) software developed by Astra Group. PAC was tested in the laboratory of the Aquarius Development Center by teams of developers, architects, engineers of both companies, functional and load tests were carried out, which ensures its reliable and uninterrupted operation.

Cloud solutions are a trend in the IT industry and have a number of indisputable advantages for customers: significant savings in administration, time savings from automatic updates, timely access to data and maximum scalability. This product will be of interest primarily to those companies that build their infrastructure on completely Russian solutions and operate with large amounts of data. These are enterprises from many industries, for example, the electric power industry, the oil and gas sector, industrial production, - said Andrei Andrianov, vice president for strategic development of Aquarius.

Russian companies are in search of ready-made solutions to immediately receive software, equipment, and technical support on the principle of a single window. All this is provided for in PACS: for any related issues, the client contacts one organization, and not several vendors. Another important point is that the equipment can be quickly installed in the data center and started using only if it is adapted for high-quality work in the cloud and carefully tested. Aquarius AIC, which we created together with colleagues from Aquarius, is just such a solution, and we plan to continue to jointly develop and supply specialized PACS that our customers can always easily and successfully solve a variety of infrastructure problems, "said Alexey Krishtop, Director of Cloud Services" Astra Group. "