Infrastructure Software Solutions
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, Avaya, IBM, Cisco, and Nortel.
Thanks to open standards, TANDBERG video conferencing and telepresence systems can be integrated with a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 platform, while TANDBERG collaboration and training solutions complement communication solutions from Cisco, Avaya, IBM, and Nortel. Products from Polycom, another major video conferencing systems provider, can be integrated with Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco unified communications environments. Polycom desktop, group, and multipoint video conferencing solutions can be integrated with Avaya Communication Manager. In addition, CROC offers Unified Communications solutions for enterprise networks developed by Polycom jointly with Nortel.
Case Studies:
Integra Management - Unified Communications System
Sberbank of the Russian Federation - Unified Communications System
Application Delivery Controller
What is it?
Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) improve web-application availability for end-users through multiple high network layer services.
CROC’s Services
CROC implements ADCs based on hardware and software products from F5 Networks, Radware, Citrix Systems, Crescendo Networks, and Replify Ltd. CROC provides a full range of ADC services, including initial audit of application operations and traffic, as well as design, implementation, and technical support.
Application Delivery Controllers implemented by CROC help:
- Economize traffic and computer infrastructure
- Improve the efficiency of applications by reducing response times
- Provide increased data center security and protection against DDoS attacks
N.B: In some cases, application modification is required (due to network layer requirements).
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)
