200 IT systems of VTB migrated in a private cloud. Economy - 920 million rubles

2019: Project completion, saving 920 million rubles

On July 3, 2019 in VTB announced TAdviser end of the strategic project on creation of a private cloud.

The single platform of flexible management was created by IT infrastructure which allowed to optimize the cost of IT resources and to accelerate process of their providing, noted in bank. In the project progress the directory of cloud services which include IaaS (Infrastructure as service) and PaaS (The platform as service) of service is created and automated.

Creation of own "private cloud" – strategically significant IT project for VTB. With its help we not only increased performance and fault tolerance of our IT systems, but also implemented the cost management mechanism for internal customers, - the deputy president-chairman of the board of VTB Olga Dergunova said. - We are going to increase further use of cloud resources to accelerate the solution of business challenges at the expense of the speed of providing infrastructure capacities and also scalabilities of IT systems on the increasing amounts of financial transactions

One of key project deliverables is an increase in productivity of information systems and increase in fault tolerance of infrastructure after its migration on the new platform of "a private cloud". During the project migration more than 200 IT systems, including 50 critical systems is executed, reported in bank.

According to the results of project implementation the general economy on operating activities of IT systems, by estimates of VTB, made 920 million rubles. The cost of ownership was reduced due to cost reduction by support and upgrade of the old equipment.

2017: Start of the project, choice of the contractor

At the end of November, 2017 VTB summed up the request for proposals results on creation of infrastructure of a private cloud and migration in it the information systems.^[1]

Jet Infosystems received the contract for creation of a private cloud for VTB bank

On the tender of bank only one request from Jet Infosystems company arrived. The offer was recognized to relevant requirements of documentation. As a result this company was recognized the winner.

The cost of the agreement with Jet Infosystems was 213.06 million rubles that is 230 thousand rubles less than the starting price of the contract.

According to the bank documentation, the project was directed to creation of the effective and reliable environment of management of IT resources with the subsequent migration in it information systems of financial institution.

The bank selected five main objectives of the performed works:

1. Ensuring high availability of infrastructure to business and critical information systems
2. Creation and configuring of supporting services of a private cloud, such as backup or directory service, for ensuring completeness of functionality of the platform of placement of information systems based on a private cloud
3. Organization of accounting of consumption and forecasting of resources of infrastructure for each information system or business division
4. Cutting of costs for operational service and technical support of information systems
5. Decommissioning of the obsolete equipment supporting now information systems of bank

For their achievement it was necessary to unroll and configure the platform of automation and basic services of IT infrastructure of a private cloud. In addition, it was supposed to automate processes of the cost accounting and allocation of expenses, to analyze the existing architecture, to plan and perform migration of information systems on the platform of a private cloud, to develop the accompanying project documentation.

Within the project on migration in a private cloud requirements and the principles of information security did not change. Only change of an infrastructure landscape of information systems was executed. Special works on providing Information Security were not provided.

All project was divided into 5 stages, the last had to come to the end 14 months later after contract signature.

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