"ORBIT brought to the project competence, experience, excellent understanding of the environment of large companies and a perfect understanding of our needs. The project turned out great."
Petr Štengl, Director of IT Operations, Česká pojišt'ovna

FAST FACTS

  • Moving a data centre from the Czech Republic to Italy
  • 14 000 users, 850 TB of data, 1300 servers, 1150 applications
  • Share of quantified savings of €100 million

EXIT STATE

At the beginning of the project was the decision of Generali Group to centralise the IT infrastructure from six countries in a data centre in Italy. The IT team of Česká pojišt'ovna (today Generali Česká pojišt'ovna) so he needed analyze in a short time about 1,150 applications, virtual desktops for about 14,000 users and data centres with more than 1,300 servers. ORBIT was chosen as the supplier of the data centre relocation study with the relevant experience.

EXTREME CONDITION

The starting point for the solution was the proven 160+ Methodology of the ORBIT team, which is based on experience with large-scale projects in the field of data centre migration, knowledge of the corporate environment, consulting skills and a high level of competence.

Transforming the approach of all key people in the team from passively taking instructions to to actively use our support and taking co-responsibility for success and failure.

Carefully prepared analysis became the basis for the preparation and implementation of the migration of the complete application portfolio and virtual desktops of Česká pojišt'ovna. Its quality is evidenced by the fact that it owns migration went smoothly and its result was a big surprise for key business managers. Thanks to ORBIT, the Czech Republic was the first of the six participating European countries to complete the project on schedule.