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SUDOP Group: 12 steps to strengthen cybersecurity

SUDOP Group wanted to comprehensively strengthen cyber security in companies across its group. Over a period of five years, it implemented a series of projects that covered everything from technology to processes to employee training. The result is a unified security framework that protects the data, identity and infrastructure of more than twenty companies. The SUDOP Group brings together over 45 companies in the design, consulting and engineering services industry....

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ORBIT's service intervention put the customer's crippled IT infrastructure back into operation

(un)known company & ORBIT While we were discussing with a customer whether he should invest in expanding his HW or rather switch to a cloud solution, he had an accident. Our service intervention precipitated the whole debate. What was at stake? How did we manage to resuscitate the paralyzed company? And how can the customer prevent a similar scenario from happening again? A failed data migration...

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Fortuna: What did the datacentre audit reveal?

How are your datacentres managed? Which ones can you continue to use and which ones should you leave? A datacenter audit is used to preemptively identify weaknesses that could compromise corporate IT at the most sensitive location in the future. How did the search for Achilles' heel in Fortuna turn out? Source. Fortuna Entertainment Group a. s. (FEG) is a...

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Raiffeisenbank & Equa bank merger: we have cut off the infrastructure stream

In winter 2020/2021 Raiffeisenbank Czech Republic acquired Equa bank. At the same time, an absolutely unique transformation project in the Czech environment was launched, in which another 488,000 Raiffeisenbank clients were to be added to the 820,000. This is a very quick look back at our contribution. Spring 2021: Raiffeisenbank infrastructure transformation Tomas Roubíček and his team took responsibility for the infrastructure stream of the merger of Raiffeisenbank and Equa bank....

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Raiffeisenbank: why does capacity planning pay?

Czech Raiffeisenbank needed to gain maximum control over the capacity planning of its VMware platform. On the one hand, there was a need to find savings over individual clusters and virtual machines, on the other hand there was a requirement to ensure high availability. How did we cope with this and what did the capacity planning bring to the customer in particular? Time for capacity planning As already mentioned, Raiffesenbank's VMware farm configuration did not provide...

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Raiffeisenbank: why is migration to Microsoft O365 worth it?

They say that habit is an iron shirt. But even that rusts over time. And so Raiffeisenbank decided to abandon the Lotus platform, which has been used for years but is no longer suitable. Why did they expose their 3,500 employees to a major cultural change? And how did the switch to O365 test the rigid covid measures? THE END OF IMOBILITY (NOT JUST IN LOCKDOWN TIMES) Before the project, bank employees could access corporate documents and information...

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Moneta: How much it saved by optimizing resources in the cloud

After 3 months: one of the first large corporations to operate its applications and environment in the cloud is MONETA Money Bank. What was the process and outcome of the search for a tool that would provide the bank with quality data for optimization and efficient management of resources in the cloud? YOU CAN'T GET AWAY IN THE CLOUD WITHOUT RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION The cloud is not for everyone. On how to know if you're getting into...

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Volkswagen financial services: how to plan and move DC

One weekend and it was done. No hitches, no consequences and 6 hours faster than planned. The client could finally breathe a sigh of relief - 18 months of analysis, optimization and testing had paid off. Judge for yourself what a lot of patience and care the migration of the Volkswagen datacenter (and elsewhere) takes. MOVING FOR A BETTER STANDARD Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS), also known as ŠkoFIN, specialises in sales support...

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O2: How to properly consolidate a network datacenter

When it comes to deciding how to consolidate the data centre of a telecommunications giant that operates nearly eight million mobile and fixed lines, provides internet connections and operates digital TV broadcasting, you really need a lot of information, experience and courage. This case study is about one such decision. AN ARCHITECT IS BEING SOUGHT. NO MORE Infrastructure spread across multiple sites, different hardware ages and running on different platforms....

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Česká pojišt'ovna: How to move 1300 servers to Italy

FAST FACTS BACKGROUND At the beginning of the project, Generali Group decided to centralise its IT infrastructure from six countries in a data centre in Italy. The IT team of Česká pojišt'ovna (now Generali Česká pojišt'ovna) thus needed to analyse about 1,150 applications, virtual desktops of about 14,000 users and data centres with more than 1,300 servers in a short time. As the supplier of the data centre relocation study with the appropriate...

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Česká spořitelna: Why migrate 650 branches to a virtual environment

OUTSIDE STAV Česká spořitelna has decided to fundamentally change its corporate culture in order to become closer to the customer and to consistently take advantage of all business opportunities. The transition to a flexible workplace was expected to support the business and maximise the mobility of the bank's employees in the future. The project was to draw on ORBIT's exceptional experience as a general contractor. EXISTING STATUS The virtualization project of Česká spořitelna's endpoint...

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Co-operative: How to secure mobile devices and data

OUTSIDE The Kooperativa insurance company's sales network consists of over 3,000 salespeople who spend most of their time in the field dealing with clients and concluding contracts. At the same time, salespeople need secure and easy access to company applications and data, anytime, anywhere and from any mobile device. The corporate IT department must therefore adequately secure all data and devices against any discredit. The ambitious task of finding the right mix of technologies to meet...

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