About Rural Brasil
Rural Brasil, a leading Brazilian agribusiness company in the distribution of agricultural inputs, sells pesticides, fertilizers, foliar nutrition programs and top quality seeds. Present in more than 220 municipalities, specifically in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará, with 33 branches.
It should be noted that the company has been part of the AgroGalaxy Group - one of Brazil's largest agro conglomerates - since 2016. It operates at different stages of the production chain (production and distribution of agricultural inputs, technical assistance services, grain storage and processing, marketing of agricultural commodities.
Challenge
In mid-2014, Rural Brasil was facing problems with the performance of its systems, high maintenance costs for its old servers, which ran outdated operating systems and applications, compromising information security. In addition, the company found it difficult to scale its infrastructure in line with business demand, which jeopardized the company's expansion goals and the quality of the service provided to its customers. customers.
"Our partnership began in 2014 and has continued until now. We see in add it Cloud Solutions the differential of treating each client and their particularities with a commitment to ensuring that our operation is always available, without interruption, being flexible in all aspects of the partnership. Another important aspect of our partnership was the migration to the cloud, which they carried out without our users or clients noticing any problems. 100% transparent, unbelievable." According to Eduardo Tavares, IT director.
Solution
Due to the high costs of maintaining an on-premises environment, Rural looked for alternatives in the market and the solution it found was to migrate its servers to a 100% private cloud. This environment offered the necessary of virtualization, automation, monitoring and complete management of the infrastructure, allowing it to have total control and flexibility of its environment, as well as a leap forward in improving security.
"We chose add it Cloud Solutions because Rural was looking for a partner who could solve its biggest priority, the performance of mission-critical applications in the cloud." Comments Eduardo Tavares
In addition to SECURITY, of course, a solution for Business Continuity was essential, which is why we contracted the DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) service with add it, which consists of replicating servers, data and applications from the private cloud to a secondary cloud in another region. applications from the private cloud to a secondary cloud in another region, guaranteeing business continuity in the event of natural disasters, cyber attacks or technical failures. A disaster recovery plan was created and documented for this challenge. plan was created and documented, in which we defined, together with the client, the strategies, policies and procedures for preventing, responding to and recovering the systems in the event of a disaster. This DRaaS plan took into account the types of disaster possible, the impact on business, the most critical resources to be protected and the deadlines for restoring normal operations.
Results
A key success factor in this project can be summed up in a single word: PLANNING. This phase involved assessing business needs, objectives, resources and risks.
The migration to the cloud, as well as the contracting of the DRaaS service, was carried out after much planning and in stages, following a project plan drawn up by Rural's IT team in partnership with the add it Cloud Solutions.
The result was a success, bringing many benefits:
- Increased application performance, eliminating slowdowns and crashes caused by obsolete equipment;
- Reduced operating and maintenance costs for servers, making better use of available resources and avoiding expenditure on hardware, energy and physical space;
- More data and information security, using encryption, a firewall and an efficient data protection solution, as well as following the company's compliance rules;
- Greater scalability of the infrastructure, being able to increase or decrease server capacity according to demand, without affecting the service provided to customers;
- Greater agility and productivity for the IT team, as the entire server infrastructure is managed by add it's team of specialists.
- Greater resilience and recovery of data and applications, with the DRaaS service that guarantees rapid restoration of services in the event of interruptions.
- "We at Rural Brasil were very pleased with the results of the migration and the contracting of the DRaaS service, and we plan to expand to other projects in the future. The 100% private cloud from add it Cloud Solutions proved to be an efficient, secure and extremely reliable solution for disaster management and protection." Eduardo Tavares concluded.
