You may be wondering how to run your business information system as easily as possible. You're deciding how powerful the server should be to handle everything now and in the foreseeable future, you're looking for an administrator, you're a bit worried about your data and its backup... The solution can be surprisingly easy, as we will show you with a concrete example of the Czech company ZRUP Příbram a.s. and Algo Cloud.

Now when you hear the word "cloud", you might think that we are going to talk about a solution for large companies. No way. ZRUP Příbram a.s., the company we are going to talk about here, employs 65 people and is a traditional Czech manufacturer of residential containers with many years of experience in supplying prefabricated modular buildings. The company delivers its products within the Czech Republic and abroad and employs a number of experienced specialists who can handle the production and assembly of cells that are used to build schools, kindergartens, family houses, dormitories, office buildings, shops, and even sports facilities. Recently, however, it has been dealing with problems with its IT.

For many years, the heart of corporate IT at ZRUP Příbram a.s. was its own servers managed by an external IT specialist, which, among other things, ran the Helios information system. As the company grew, the demands on the information system increased and the limit of the existing solution became the database, whose size exceeded 10 GB. Upgrading the existing solution would be problematic and very costly, so the company management decided that after twelve years of running the information system, essentially unchanged, it was now time to make a major change.

Two basic approaches were offered: the first option was a classic solution with its own servers in-house (the so-called on premise solution), the second was a cloud solution, i.e. a solution completely using the infrastructure of the service provider. While with the traditional approach, the company representatives would have to deal with the issues related to the required performance of the new servers, their installation, management and the acquisition itself, with the cloud these concerns would be eliminated. Users, however, were concerned that data would end up outside the company and perceived possible outages as a risk. Petr Tvrdík, who handled the change on behalf of the company, however, considered these concerns to be irrelevant - provided that a reliable supplier of cloud services was carefully selected. The advantages of the cloud clearly prevailed in his eyes.

And so the tender for a cloud provider was launched. 10 companies were approached, half of them were shortlisted. The selected companies met all the basic conditions for running the information system under the Windows operating system, which the Helios information system needs to function. Now it was necessary to see how the cooperation would look in practice. After a detailed analysis and a detailed interview with each of the potential suppliers, the choice fell on Algotech.