The Baltika brewery was defined in the choice of a proxy system

Softline completed the consulting project of development of an effective technique of comparison and testing of proxy-solutions for Baltika company.

Tasks

Before specialists of Softline company there was a task - to select the optimal proxy-solution allowing to provide to the staff of Baltika company, the leader of the Russian market of beer, secure access in the Internet, and to IT services – effective control above access. Need of replacement of the existing proxy system arose in connection with obsolescence of components and emergence of new requirements to products of such class.

Solution

The leading analysts of Softline developed the project for the choice of the optimal proxy-solution, created a technique of comparison of proxy-solutions and implemented testing of devices: Blue Coat Proxy SG, Cisco Ironport S370, Microsoft Forefront TMG. The research and objective assessment of all three solutions, practical testing and also the choice of the optimal scheme of implementation (centralized or distributed) became a project objective.

Results

Based on testing representatives of Baltika company obtained the complete objective information on each of three products supported with expert evaluation of analysts of Softline and made reasoned decision.

The general project duration was 62 working days.

Feedback

Ilya Tambovtsev, head of development department of information systems and infrastructure of JSC Baltika Brewery: "For Baltika, geographically distributed company, the choice of the modern IT solution on 4000 users is a separate project. As a part of requirements to such IT solutions – stability of service, the high level of security, integration of a solution architecture in the existing infrastructure, integration at level of the existing business applications, scaling options, development of management tools and monitoring and also a set of the functions specialized for such solutions (for testing of the proxy-solution over 40 functions were defined). A set of requirements determines also the partner's level whose work will help to make a choice of the solution rational. Thanks to the held versatile testing of three candidate products on the real operating IT infrastructure of Baltika we could reveal opportunities and restrictions of each product and to approach consciously the choice of the solution necessary for us".