The Conde Nast magazines Russia appear thanks to the solution for remote work Croc in time

2020: Virtualization of jobs

On April 27, 2020 the Croc company reported that Conde Nast Russia — the publisher of lifestyle-magazines: GQ, Vogue, Tatler, Glamour, AD — for one day did not suspend the activity in the conditions of a quarantine thanks to timely provided resources Croc. The IT company provided with virtual work places of 300 employees of media holding. Thanks to it all issues of magazines were issued in time. Also as before the financial division of Condé Nast Russia at which the period of self-isolation matched preparation of the quarter reporting continued work.

The remote operation mode of personnel of publishing house caused growth of load of information systems. To solve this problem, the Russia Condé Nast company addressed CROC which provided additional server capacities with software for creation of remote jobs (VDI, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). Deployment of all project took less than a week.

Quarantine measures for us, as well as many other Russian companies, caused a number of difficulties, first of all logistic character. The Russia Condé Nast publishing house responsibly approaches questions of personnel management and sensitively reacts to any phenomena which can negatively affect health of employees. Therefore despite everything, we decided to transfer completely all state to remote work, as well as order in similar cases. This situation demanded instant scaling of the existing IT infrastructure. But thanks to operational and very professional support of CROC we could even prepare at such force majeure all materials for the websites and digital applications and release in the planned mode of 5 issues of magazines, reported Dmitry Klichugin, the director of information technology and information security of Condé Nast Russia

Virtualization of jobs is one of the most effective crisis response solutions from our portfolio of services for remote work along with cloud services and lease of the selected infrastructure (HaaS, Hardware as a Service). From key advantages VDI should note the high speed of implementation and cost efficiency and also problem solving of information security. As a basis for VDI solutions we use graphic processors which allow to work with resource-intensive applications, for example, a heavy photo, video, graphics. It is especially relevant for the media companies and also other organizations working with resource-intensive content: project, design, architectural offices, added Alexander Sysoyev, the head of computing infrastructure of CROC