Leading Oil Company Streamlines IT Management and Ensures Business Continuity

Overview

Surgutneftegas conducts exploration work, constructs and develops oil and gas fields, and produces oil and petrochemical products. To support its complex operations, the company historically operated a large, geographically distributed IT infrastructure. This was becoming increasingly difficult to manage, and required costly on-site maintenance. To address these issues, the company decided to deploy Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with the help of leading specialist, Microsoft Services. The resulting system reduces administration costs with centralised IT management and automated handling of Human Resources (HR) information. In addition, fault tolerance in the new data centre minimises unplanned downtime, and ensures business continuity. The solution also offers features for data protection and delivers excellent network performance.