Rosenergoatom increases reliability and scalability of IT infrastructure

2021: IT Design and Scaling

On November 29, 2021, Krok announced that it had designed the IT infrastructure for the central apparatus of Rosenergoatom, 11 nuclear power plants and the Reference Data Center at Kalinin NPP. This has laid the foundation for disaster tolerance, flexible resource management and scalability, business application reliability and connectivity. The project lasted two years and included an audit of the customer's infrastructure and business systems, the development of design solutions, as well as disaster recovery plans.

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Over the past few years, Rosenergoatom's infrastructure has developed quite quickly - the number of information systems has increased. For example, it time pandemics required the support remote operation of staff, for which the deployment project was implemented. VDI To cope with the increased load on IT and challenges to the business, the management of the concern decided to modernize the infrastructure. At the same time, it was important not only to switch to more current, scalable IT solutions, but also to unify the infrastructure in all geographically distributed facilities, preserving previously made investments.

To achieve this goal, Krok IT conducted a pre-design survey with a visit to each of the sites, developed project documentation for each site taking into account the requirements of industry regulatory documents. The designed systems include: local area network, computing node, storage, infrastructure services, monitoring system, unified communications system, backup system, and disaster tolerance system. All business applications will work on the basis of this infrastructure: portals, Internet sites, document management systems, information and analytical systems, financial, personnel systems, production and repair management systems, construction, reference legal systems and others. At the same time, the technical design takes into account the use of hardware and software solutions from various manufacturers, including Russian ones. At the stage of implementation of design solutions, this will allow the concern to select products that are suitable in terms of technical characteristics, cost and import substitution requirements .

The project does not cover only the technical aspects of the infrastructure. Krok specialists analyzed the established processes of operation and maintenance. For each facility, an analysis of the impact of failures on business continuity was carried out, actual and target recovery parameters (RTO and RPO) were determined, and disaster recovery plans were developed in case of emergency.

"We expect that this project will help us in the long term to maintain the efficiency of production processes and the reliability of application applications. One of our main requirements was also the flexible scaling of the infrastructure in the future - it should be increased tenfold without a significant change in the technical solutions laid down. All this was taken into account in the program proposed by Kroc in full, "- said Oleg Shalnov, director of the IT project management and integration department of Rosengoatom.

"The project involved more than 30 qualified engineers, architects, business continuity consultants. They all have years of experience in integrating complex infrastructures and developing them. Thanks to the project team working as a watch, we were able to form a technical plan for the infrastructure of the Rosenergoatom concern, which will be relevant for years to come, " added Ivan Rubtsov, deputy general director for work with key customers of Krok.