Metinvest has completed the digital migration project of the it infrastructure of mining and metallurgical Metinvest group on cloud platform Microsoft Azure by migrating to the cloud 680 of the servers of the two Central data centers, the company that used to provide IT services.
85 terminal servers have been transformed to the format PaaS (Platform as a Service) Windows Virtual Desktop 2 thousand users, which was the first implementation of such a solution in Ukraine.
"Microsoft is committed to helping Ukrainian companies to upgrade their business using the latest technologies. Thanks to a partnership with Metinvest Digital and Infopulse, we observe in Ukraine an exceptional case powerful digital transformation of Metinvest, which will help the company to develop further by introducing new innovative solutions in the steel industry," said Jan Peter de Jong, CEO of Microsoft Ukraine.
the Main purpose of migration is to increase the efficiency, reliability and security of it infrastructure of Metinvest, and also make it more flexible and adaptive when implementing the projects of digital transformation.
migration Project, which has become one of the largest in Ukraine and lasted for almost 12 months, Metinvest digital implemented in partnership with Infopulse, Microsoft. Last year Metinvest digital has already been moved to cloud platform Azure it services assets of Metinvest Group in Europe and the United States.
Metinvest Group is one of the largest Microsoft customer in Ukraine. The move to the cloud now allows the group to quickly and efficiently introduce innovative it solutions. According to the development strategy of it in the nearest plans of the company implementation of new and development of existing projects of the industrial Internet of things (IIoT), big data (Big Data), production management (MES), artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI & ML), the use of drones and UAVs in the production of computer vision systems and other innovative solutions and technologies.