The hybrid cloud of Microsoft ensures functioning of Paul Smith fashion house

February 6, 2015. The management of fashion house Paul Smith announced the optimization existing IT infrastructures using solutions Microsoft. The company implemented a number of products of Microsoft: Windows Server System Server SQL Server Hyper-V StorSimple, Microsoft Azure and Office 365.

Tasks

Organize effective information storage and also save the high level of customer service in the conditions of the limited budget on IT.

Project Progress

Technologies of Microsoft made available to the company the newest instruments of virtualization, cloud computing and management of databases. So, the Windows Server 2008 system, in the subsequent updated to Windows Server 2012 R2, integrated the available storages, and the technology of virtualization Hyper-V reduced the cost of their service. Tools for management of the System Center 2012 platforms, allowed to build flexible dynamic cloud infrastructure and to automate workflows. Besides, technologies of Microsoft are successfully synchronized with local servers and provide high disaster tolerance of all system. In Paul Smith the hybrid cloud storage of StorSimple which is used for data protection and creation of backup copies in a cloud of Azure was also set and, besides, helps the company to manage the data which are stored on its physical servers. At last, Microsoft Office applications 365 allowed all employees of a wide branch network of Paul Smith to work both at office, and beyond its limits. Sellers in retail stores use for work with clients tablets based on Windows 8.1 with the preset Office packet.

Result

The combination of such software products as Windows Server, System Server SQL Server Hyper-V StorSimple, Microsoft Azure and Office 365, allowed to make a system more functional and reliable and also significantly lowered finance costs of the enterprise. The created infrastructure easily is scaled, ensuring smooth operation of the enterprise even during the periods of the maximum loads: during an exit of new collections and sales.

Complex implementation allowed to increase IT system power by 200%, to reduce time of its recovery from 48 to 5 o'clock minutes and also to reduce annual housekeeping overheads more than by 800 thousand pounds.

"Microsoft provides to corporate clients reliable base for data storage, – Li noted Binham, the head of IT department of Paul Smith. – We consider that the corporation offers the best that can give a cloud: the flexible and reliable platform in own DPC and effective hybrid solutions. Besides, technologies of Microsoft are universal and constantly develop. Developments of corporation were always the cornerstone of our IT infrastructure, we upgrade it in process of their evolution and are very happy with result".

Representatives of the company integrator reported TAdviser.