OREANDA-NEWS. Helios IT, a member of Armada OAO (MICEX-RTS: ARMD), announces the completion of the complex project related to virtualization of IT-infrastructure of Carlo Pazolini.

Carlo Pazolini is an international company, one of the leaders of the Russian footwear market, possessing a network of company stores in Italy, Russia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldavia, Kazakhstan, USA, UK. A distributed IT-infrastructure has been used for accounting of all operating activities. Within this project a decision was taken to virtualize it.

Specialists of Helios IT carried out a complex inspection and design of the IT-system. The transfer of all computing resources without downtime and idle hours for all offices and stores of the company was the key requirement of the project. The virtualization was carried out based on VMware software products. The data processing center was made based on the HP server equipment. The system of the service reserve availability included the developments of the engineers of Helios IT, ensuring self-starting of the reserves in case of an emergency situation.

"A radical change of the IT-infrastructure is a project requiring an extremely reliable and qualified contractor. Specialists of Helios IT perfectly coped with all difficult tasks and managed to provide a complex solution," comments Galina Konstantinovka, IT Director of Carlo Pazolini.

"Starting such a large scale project we distinctly understood that the guaranteed work of all systems is a requirement that is really important. We had tested solutions in our arsenal, which really could ensure a reserve starting of systems in an automatic mode," said Maxim Kobzev, Director of the Infrastructure Solutions and Services Department.