Computing infrastructure

Iteh International designs and deploys solutions to ensure business continuity at all levels of the customer's IT infrastructure.

Iteh International offers the implementation of various solutions to ensure business continuity of the required level of reliability:

AT THE LEVEL OF AN APPLICATION PROVIDING A CORPORATE SERVICE

• Iteh International experts audit software solutions used by the customer and study the possibility of software clustering in accordance with the best practices and recommendations of the software solution developer.

AT THE LEVEL OF A THIRD-PARTY CLUSTERING AND LOAD BALANCING SOFTWARE SOLUTION

• If the software used does not have official clustering mechanisms, Iteh International specialists work out clustering options using third-party software solutions.

• Through the use of additional clustering solutions, it is possible to implement Asset-Asset systems to provide load balancing, or Asset-Passive systems for hot-swap functionality in case of a software solution failure.

AT THE VIRTUALISATION PLATFORM LEVEL

• By working out the correct migration policies for virtual machines between nodes of the Affinity Rules virtualisation cluster, additional protection is provided against the failure of hardware components of the IT infrastructure. In case of unavailability of the virtualisation server, all critical virtual machines will be automatically restarted on the remaining operational servers, thereby minimising the downtime of the corporate service.

• Flexible configuration of virtual machine migration policies between virtualisation cluster nodes is also possible in order to ensure the most efficient use of available hardware resources.

AT THE HARDWARE LEVEL

• The designed IT infrastructure is built on the basis of equipment with redundancy of key hardware components of servers/storage according to the N+ 1 scheme.

• With increased requirements for fault tolerance, a transmission network and a data storage network with multiple network paths can be designed to ensure network fault tolerance in the event of a failure of one of the routers or a SAN switch.

AT THE DATA CENTER LEVEL

• When designing a data center, Iteh International engineers are working on options for building geo-distributed disaster-resistant systems that allow maintaining the operability of key software services even in the event of a failure of the entire site. Key systems continue to operate at the customer's standby site, which is awaiting failure.

• Additionally, clustering can be provided at the site level by implementing systems such as "stretched SAN", Metro-cluster at the storage level, Site Recovery and SRM systems at the virtualisation level or a load balancer at the clustering level of the software itself providing the corporate service.

Fault-tolerant and disaster-resistant solutions

Today, thousands of printing devices are installed in various organisations, and often the heads of these organisations do not represent either their exact number, or the volume of printing, or the cost of maintaining the printing infrastructure.

The absence of a comprehensive printing management system entails:

• inefficient use of printing equipment and, as a result, frequent breakdowns

• uncontrolled and unpredictable costs of consumables

• abuse of employees by printing non-core documents

• violation of security policies when printing confidential information

To solve the problems of control, management and security of office printing, Iteh International offers automated print management systems.

Benefits of implementing print management systems

REDUCING PRINTING COSTS AND INCREASING THEIR TRANSPARENCY

• Savings are achieved by eliminating the reprinting of documents, reducing the number of non-core printing, as well as the use of automatic corporate printing policies.

• The reduction of costs from the introduction of systems averages 15-30%, but can reach up to 50% of the total printing costs.

PROACTIVE MONITORING OF THE STATE OF THE PRINTING EQUIPMENT FLEET

• Monitoring the status of printing devices will let you know about the problem with the printer or MFP even before the user encountered it.

• The user can use a nearby serviceable device for printing without any additional manipulations.

• All this will balance the load on the support service and reduce the negative effect of equipment downtime.

INCREASES THE OVERALL LEVEL OF SECURITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN PRINTING CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

• The solution ensures the security of printing, copying and scanning by authorizing users in a specified way on printers and MFPs.

• It is possible to control the content of documents sent for printing and user access rights to confidential information with notification of security services.

THE CONVENIENCE AND EFFICIENCY OF USERS WORK WITH OFFICE EQUIPMENT INCREASES

• The scanning control built into the automated control system allows the user to get the scan results in one click.

• Due to roaming of print jobs, users can receive tasks sent within the organization for printing on any printer or MFP on which they have logged in.

• Ability to print from mobile devices for employees.

Print Management systems

This is the transfer of the user's workspace, including the operating system, installed software and current corporate settings, to a virtualised environment

These systems can be built on the basis of software solutions from VMware, Citrix (XenDesktop and XenAp), as well as Microsof

Depending on the functional and technical requirements of the customer, Iteh International specialists can offer

• RDS (Remote Desktop Services) - a service implemented by one of the software components of Microsoft Windows Server systems. The main idea of this service is that end users work simultaneously on one physical server and on one copy of the operating system in their isolated user workspace.

• VDI (or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is a virtual infrastructure in which each user works on a separate virtual machine running on a remote server. All users are isolated from each other within their personal virtual machines.

In case of a request for non-standard functional requirements for the planned virtualisation platform, Iteh International specialists are ready to prepare an individual solution for a specific customer, taking into account all those requirements that vendors' boxed products do not meet.

• Organisation of uninterrupted work of employees from anywhere in the world from any mobile device connected to the Internet

• Reduction of the labor costs of the technical support and operation service for administrative operations related to the preparation and management of user workplaces.

• Ensuring a high level of security of stored data (everything in its own infrastructure, nothing on client devices)

• Centralisation of management of all user workstations in a single management interface with the possibility of remote administration

• The ability to restore the functionality of the user's workplace in case of accidental or malicious actions within a few minutes

Effect of implementation

• The total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure is reduced by an average of 40%

• Increasing the level of information security

• Simplification of the process of updating software components (by using a single OS for all users)

Functionality

• Ensuring uninterrupted user access to VDI virtual workstations for working with corporate information systems

• Support for a wide range of end devices: PCs, laptops, thin clients, tablets, smartphones based on various operating systems

• The client components of the VDI system are compatible and supported by modern operating systems and platforms adopted as standard by the customer

• The system monitors the life cycle of each virtual workstation

• Providing mobile users with access to business applications from any corporate devices * Providing access to corporate information systems located in various network segments

• Increasing the level of information security in the event of the use of external media, loss or unauthorised access

• The ability to use a wide range of peripheral devices for scanning, printing, audio conferencing, video conferencing services

• Providing remote access from mobile devices, laptops, home PCs

Workplace Virtualisation Solutions

Iteh International is engaged in the implementation of not only traditional, but also convergent and hyper-convergent data storage systems, storage systems with the possibility of vertical and horizontal scaling. Until recently, the main types of connections between storage systems and computing systems were DAS, NAS and SAN. Today, disk arrays connected directly to individual servers (DAS) no longer meet the needs of large organisations with complex IT infrastructure. Today, storage systems are becoming converged and hyper-converged, providing work with all types of storage systems. Iteh International is engaged in the implementation of not only traditional storage systems, but also convergent and hyper-convergent data storage systems, storage systems with the possibility of vertical and horizontal scaling. The convergence of modern storage systems makes it possible to make the system more versatile, reduce TCO, provide flexible resource allocation, and improved infrastructure control. And hyper-convergence is focused on virtualisation, provides high availability and data protection.

Iteh International offers its customers a modern data storage system, which guarantees convergence in at least five areas (hybrid storage): SAN and NAS, different types of devices, from entry-level to high-level storage systems, HDD and SSD, storage and backup. Our company's specialists are trained in all the latest storage innovations, which allows Iteh International to easily deploy and use the latest technologies of data storage systems. Such innovations include such storage systems as HPE Alletra (cloud storage infrastructure with Data Services Cloud Console for using a cloud management model and payment based on consumption), Huawei OceanStor Pacific Series (a series of storage systems for high-performance data analytics - HPDA), IBM FlashSystem 5200 (the system has a wide range of IBM Spectrum functions Virtualise and allows you to expand existing functionality and resources), IBM Storage Insights based on AI (provides optimisation of the efficiency of the data storage system).

Iteh International has high partner statuses of major suppliers of storage and backup systems — HPE, Huawei, NetApp, Dell, Veritas — which allows us to offer customers the most favourable terms of delivery

DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS