IT architecture infrastructure

As Systemfive AG has its own outsourcing business, many solutions are requested for complete new IT infrastructures.

Client project 1: Complete international outsourcing and virtualization, including branch offices of client (in Switzerland, Germany, Sri Lanka and China), with entirely new failsafe IT platform based on virtualization. The individual services of the client’s affiliates in various countries were transformed redundantly. Of particular importance in the solution design was the high availability of the core services the client needs to run his business (Exchange, MS-SQL, fileshare).

Client project 2: Complete outsourcing and virtualization over numerous locations, including redundant transformation of client’s branch offices. Here the core services of the client were also designed to be failsafe (training platform for police academies). This client’s training platform is of great importance, as a malfunction or outage could have devastating consequences, since several Swiss cantons use this training platform.
Good planning and the construction of a redundant and failsafe environment were a necessity when designing the solution for this client. During the migration over a weekend, 500 clients were migrated and 140 clients completely reinstalled, besides the actual migration of the servers, services and network.

Both of these client projects had to be carried out in a timely manner to reduce downtime. The whole migration was therefore carried out during a weekend, so that no working day was affected by downtime.