Infrastructure Software Solutions
Transaction Performance Management
Transaction performance management solutions help identify any degradation in application performance, detect the root causes of problems, review findings and problem resolution recommendations, simulate the impact of recommended measures and check the effectiveness of steps taken.
CROC’s Services:
Transaction performance management solutions offered by CROC are based on Precise products and cover all modules of the most popular corporate applications (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Siebel) as well as customized software. Data is collected at each transaction layer:
- user level
- web services
- applications
- middleware
- databases
- storage systems
- virtualization
Case Studies:
Ingosstrakh - Implementation of database performance monitoring system
Mobile Device Management (MDM)
What is it?
Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a concept for managing the lifecycle of smart phones, tablet computers, and netbooks. MDM helps adapt IT-related business processes to the intensive use of mobile devices and helps improve employee productivity.
CROC’s Services
CROC offers solutions to centrally manage mobile device settings, security policies (encryption, password policies), software distribution for mobile devices using Over-the-Air (OTA) technology, prevent installation of unwanted applications and services, back up data, and monitor device status. CROC offers MDM solutions based on Microsoft, Sybase, Symantec, and McAfee products.
Advantages:
- Mobile device control
- Corporate data security
- Reduced maintenance costs
- Higher service level for corporate end-users
Application Delivery Solutions
What is it?
Application delivery solutions are a set of technologies that enable controlled, on-demand delivery of various types of applications to end-user devices from centralized locations with as much automation as possible.
Application delivery solutions include:
- “Streaming” applications from server farms to end-user local or virtual desktops (also known as “endpoint virtualization”) based on products like MS App-V, VMware ThinApp, Symantec Workspace Streaming, Citrix XenApp, etc. This technology makes applications available to end-users without having to install such applications directly on end-user computers.
- Delivering (installing) applications from central locations to end-user local or virtual desktops using products like Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, IBM Tivoly Configuration Manager, Symantec Altiris, etc.
- Optimization of applications delivery (mainly web apps) via the creation of an Application Delivery Network comprising Application Delivery Controllers and WAN Optimization Controllers based on hardware and software from various vendors (Radware, F5, Citrix, BlueCoat, Juniper, etc).
- Terminal end-user application delivery based on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenApp, Quest vWorkspace and similar products.
- Solutions for diagnostics, troubleshooting and sizing of application delivery systems, specifically Precise Software.
CROC’s Services
CROC creates and implements a variety of Application Delivery solutions based on products from major global IT vendors such as Microsoft, Citrix, VMWare, Radware and many others.
Unified Communications
What is it?
Unified Communications (UC) is a platform that integrates e-mail, VoIP, instant messaging, audio and video conferencing, and other communications services.
CROC’s Services
CROC creates and implements Unified Communications solutions based on products from major global IT vendors such as Microsoft, Cicso, Avaya and IBM. Thanks to open standards, Polycom and TANDBERG video conferencing can be integrated with Unified Communications solutions from Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya and IBM.
Advantages:
- More opportunities for teamwork and collaboration
- Efficient communications
- Possibility of telecommuting (teleworking)
- Cost-efficiency
Case Studies:
Integra Management - Unified Communications System
Sberbank of the Russian Federation - Unified Communications System
Java Application Acceleration
What is it?
Java Application Acceleration solutions improve the performance of Java platform applications (used for enterprise-level application development). Azul Systems products, which help improve the performance of Java-based applications, reduce the server park, and optimize asset utilization. Applications are offloaded transparently from traditional servers to Azul appliances, where they gain access to nearly unlimited CPU and memory resources. Multiple applications can simultaneously tap into the appliance from Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, or AIX using any version of Java and Java-compatible application servers. This design ensures that all applications have access to the required resources the moment they need them in order to deliver consistently low response times and handle wide workload variances, including spikes.
CROC’s Services
CROC offers Java Application Acceleration solutions on Azul Systems products which provide for:
- 5x improvement in Java-based application performance
- Up to 10x faster response time at peak load
- 5x reduction in host server requirements
- Real-time application performance monitoring
Database Server Optimization based on Database Machines
What is it?
Exadata Database Machine is a high-performance database management solution developed jointly by Sun and Oracle. It is a complete package of software, servers, storage and networking for all data management operations, including data warehousing, transaction processing and consolidated mixed application workloads. The key advantage of this solution is Oracle’s new Sun FlashFire technology which caches ‘hot’ data for dramatically improved transaction response times and throughput. Exadata Database Machine is most appropriate for large data volumes (10Tb and more). With Exadata Database Machine, customers can consolidate their database applications, store more data, search for data faster and make business decisions in real time.
CROC’s Services
CROC implements database optimization solutions on an Exadata Database Machine platform. Innovative architecture ensures optimum business intelligence, reporting and transaction processing application performance.
System Resource Virtualization and Consolidation
What is it?
Server virtualization technology helps companies to: economize on IT infrastructure, easily and rapidly implement new information services, adapt information systems to changing business requirements, improve IT resiliency at peak load and reduce support team workload.CROC’s Services
CROC offers virtualization solutions based on VMware and Microsoft software. Key advantages include:
- Consolidation to migrate (without any changes) all software from servers to a virtual platform
- High-availability and fault-tolerant configurations to maintain virtual machine operation in the case of hardware failure
- Virtualization in software development and testing environment to accelerate software development cycle. Virtual environment offers enhanced capabilities to correct developed software and create snapshots of virtual machines
- Virtualization in a remote office (all servers required to support remote office operations can be placed on a virtual machine platform in order to improve server availability and simplify administration)
- Main and backup data center virtualization (all servers can be placed on a virtual machine platform and setup to automatically switch to a backup data center in case of main data center failure)
- Workstation virtualization (the use of a virtualization platform for user workstations in order to ensure information integrity, simplify workstation administration and reduce energy consumption)
- Optimization of computer capacity usage (automatic load balancing between physical servers)
