Building a highly available private cloud and service migration

Building a highly available private cloud and service migration

Client

Panda Cooperative, sole owner and representative of the Office 1 brand

Industry

Office 1 is the largest office products chain in Bulgaria.

Project Highlights

In 2018, Office 1 opened Office 1 Logistics – the most modern automated warehouse and logistics center in Southeast Europe, covering an area of 26,558 m².

The facility is equipped with the Austrian automated system OSR – the only one of its kind in the region.

  • 22-story warehouse structure
  • Capacity of over 16,000 items
  • Error rate below 0.04%
  • Up to 430 processed product lines per hour per workstation

The project is certified as a Class A investment by the Bulgarian Investment Agency.

Challenge

  • Secure and highly available IT infrastructure: Need for an in-house, resilient platform for critical business systems.
  • Migration from public cloud: Desire to eliminate dependency on external platforms and gain greater control over data.
  • Ensuring continuity: Protection from outages and data loss.

Solution

  • Strategic IT consulting and design: In-depth needs analysis and development of a tailored solution.
  • Hardware delivery and assembly: All components delivered on time and precisely assembled.
  • High-availability virtualization cluster (Hyper-V):
    • 4 dual-processor servers
    • 2 storage systems with synchronous replication
    • Redundant core switches
    • Firewalls
    • WAN switches
  • Backup solution: Full data protection and recovery capability in case of incidents.
  • Seamless migration: All services and data successfully moved from public to private cloud.

Delivered Products

  • 4 dual-processor servers
  • 2 storage systems with replication
  • Redundant core switches
  • Firewalls
  • WAN switches
  • Hyper-V virtualization software
  • Backup and recovery solution

Results

  • Secure and scalable infrastructure: Private cloud suitable for critical applications.
  • Improved operational continuity: Replication and virtualization reduce outage risk.
  • Greater control and cost optimization: No public cloud fees, better IT resource management.
  • Optimized IT environment: A solution aligned with the client’s long-term strategy.

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