The HOST group increases controllability of business of Develop-man holding using Hyper-V Cloud

The HOST group increases controllability of business of Develop-man holding using Hyper-V Cloud

Testing of cloud computing within the Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Accelerate program in construction holding Develop-man showed a possibility of creation of manageable IT infrastructure with a possibility of calculation of cost of operation of virtual services.

About the Customer

Region: Chelyabinsk region

Sphere of activity: Construction, realtor services.

The Develop-man group was formed in 1998. Today it is one of market leaders of Chelyabinsk region in the field of construction and implementation of a real estate. The total area of the objects built and sold by it is more than 750 thousand sq.m. The holding includes the companies covering practically all areas of construction activity, beginning from production of construction materials, construction of residential and non-residential objects, and finishing with realtor services. The organization selected in structure of holding performs service and support of IT infrastructures of all companies entering into holding.

IT environment status prior to the beginning of the project

The distributed structure of the organization; Complexity of administration and management; Complexity of calculation of cost of operation of IT services.

Situation

Information and Technical Company LLC in fact, is not just servicing IT department, and full-fledged IT service provider for the companies entering into the Develop-man group, providing them the computing powers and applications. The technology of virtualization implemented before allowed to optimize load of computing resources and to cut down maintenance expenses, but did not cope completely with tasks of management of IT infrastructure.

"Playing a role of the internal supplier of services, we should understand what costs fall on service of each service of the companies from Develop-man holding. The lack of these data does further development of information systems of holding almost uncontrolled, - Sergey Mikhaylov, the Director of Information and Technical Company LLC explains current situation. – If it is easy to calculate costs for a licensed software, then calculation of complex housekeeping overheads of any specific IT service after implementation of virtualization for us became difficult a solvable task".

Solution

Specialists of HOST Group for the solution of the existing tasks suggested to use technology of creation of a private cloud. Such model provides implementation of a self-service portal (Microsoft Self-Service Portal). Using its web interface, users can independently and quickly order and unroll necessary business applications, paying them depending on consumption level. The company the supplier in this case can use him as the reliable tool for calculation of cost of providing each application.

"When before us there was a question of the choice of the producer of technology for private clouds, we long did not doubt. Microsoft became it. Implementation managed to show virtualizations based on Microsoft Hyper-V visually to us undoubted pluses of products of this producer, such as uniformity, convergence, price and quality a year ago", – Sergey Mikhaylov, the Director of Information and Technical Company LLC notes.

Solution components

Software:

Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter 2008R2; Microsoft Hyper-V; Microsoft Self-Service Portal; Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager; Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.

Result

Software testing of Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud showed to specialists of Information and Technical Company LLC methods of calculation of cost of operation of specific IT services of Develop-man holding, methods of decrease in labor costs of IT personnel at the expense of the automated approval of new computing resources.

"Hyper-V Cloud testing fully showed advantages of cloud computing. It showed what is the convenient management tool, the analysis and selection of IT resources, at the same time optimizing and reducing costs in IT infrastructure in general", – Sergey Mikhaylov, the Director of Ltd company "The information and technical company comments on implementation.

According to Vlad Alekseev, the commercial director of HOST Group, "the project is interesting to Develop-man holding that its main objective was not optimization of IT resources, but quality improvement of management. It allowed to disclose as much as possible advantages of SAAS even within one small private cloud".

Sergey Shuichkov, the Microsoft partners manager notes that software testing within the Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Accelerate program managed to find many ardent admirers, but their success would be impossible without professionalism of the Microsoft partners performing implementation: "The Microsoft corporation selected only 6 system integrators having necessary knowledge and experience for implementation of cloud computing from Russia. HOST Group one of them".

Advantages of the solution

Increase in controllability of IT infrastructure; Economy of labor costs of IT personnel; Increase in flexibility and scalability of IT infrastructure; Cost analysis of computing resources necessary for operation of applications.