Kaspersky Lab IT
Private cloud drives innovation at leading cybersecurity group
Staying at the security forefront Pre-integrated stack insures Kaspersky Lab takes trustworthy servers better use of people and Kaspersky Lab keeps organizations, technology Size: 4000 employees governments, and home-computer The Kaspersky setup features around Industry: IT users safe. With leading antivirus 80 Cisco Unified Computing System™ Location: Moscow, Russia and Internet security products, and (Cisco UCS®) rack and blade servers, operations spanning 200 territories, along with Cisco Nexus® switches for it’s one of the world’s fastest-growing fast access to data and applications. cybersecurity companies. Cisco engineers provided training on When it came to updating its own the system before it went live, while server technology, Kaspersky had to be Cisco SMARTnet™ and Cisco UCS Solutions sure the new solution would be totally Manager allow Kaspersky to streamline trustworthy. At the heart of a cost- time-consuming daily activities like • Powering greater IT efficiency effective private cloud environment, provisioning, monitoring, and and speeding time to market it would also have to offer high problem resolution. with Cisco UCS servers performance and • Streamlining operations through class-leading scalability. “We’ve cut IT expense and complexity,” combination of Cisco Smart Net says Ivan Moshkarin, R&D Services Total Care Service and Kirill Andrienko, senior systems engineer Infrastructure Development group Cisco UCS Manager at Kaspersky Lab, says, “Our Cisco manager at Kaspersky Lab. “so we’ve wired and wireless networks are very got more time to spend working • Providing fast, reliable access to reliable, so when offered the chance to with our stakeholders on business information and tools with test Cisco UCS, we leapt at it. We were innovation ideas.” Cisco networking quickly convinced by improvements in performance and management.” Kaspersky Lab IT
With Cisco data center solutions: Greater IT and business agility and virtual interface cards (VICs). Servers positions firm for future growth can be up and running in less than 3 hours, and everything’s managed through It’s much easier and quicker to create one single pane of glass. new IT services. Unlike before, when provisioning involved lots of manual steps, “We can get to market faster with less Kaspersky has automated the process operational expense.” says Moshkarin. with Cisco UCS service profile templates
IT people have more time for business innovation
“We’ve cut IT expense and complexity. So we’ve got more time to spend working with our stakeholders on business innovation ideas.”
Ivan Moshkarin, R&D Services Infrastructure Development group manager New products can be launched Kaspersky Lab much faster
Products and Services Higher productivity and cost savings have been secured Data Center • Cisco UCS Manager • Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers • Cisco Nexus 2000, 5000, and 7000 For More Information • Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers Series Switches To learn more about the Cisco solutions featured in this case study, visit Customer Stories: www.cisco.com/go/customerstories
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