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Standart Profil – Success Story

Established in Turkey in 1977, the Standard Profil Group is a leading supplier that manufactures sealing profiles for automotive manufacturers across the world. The Group has a wide and prestigious customer portfolio including the brands BMW Group, Daimler, FCA, VW Group, Renault-Nissan, Toyota etc.

The Group Head Office is in Istanbul, Turkey and operates with 12 manufacturing facilities in 4 continents. In addition to 4 plants in Düzce and Manisa, it has facilities in Spain, Bulgaria, China, South Africa, Morocco and Mexico. The Profil Group operates with nearly 8000 people in total employed in13 countries including the R&D Centers in Turkey and Spain as well as design and resident offices in the USA and Europe.

Requirement

The most important requirements included maintaining the standardized and up-to-date information technology infrastructure in different plant and office locations within the company. The requirements also included the accessibility by the end users across many different locations such as Africa, China, Mexico and Europe to the same service quality with an innovative, modern and powerful solution in the network infrastructure. There was a need to perform the change with zero interruption to avoid any disruption in production while achieving all these goals.

Solution

A Hub & Spoke network architecture was designed in the Azure environment, covering all locations. In this structure, Azure Virtual WAN and the remote locations have been connected by the hub points. Via the S2S VPN, the locations are included in the WAN structure with minimum delay from the closest Azure end points.

Security level of the environment is increased with vulnerability prevention security solutions such as the Governance and Management Policies and the MFA for Azure Active Directory. The servers are made to overcome any potential issue thanks to the Azure Backup. With the Azure Monitoring and Azure Security, the environment is now monitored on 24/7 basis and the system has acquired various capabilities such as pre/post incident vulnerability identification.

Virtual servers located in the On-Premise environment and hosting many different applications and systems, especially SQL, were made ready for migration with the knowledge and experience of KoçSistem. The transition is complete with an uninterrupted operation.

Benefit and Result

  • Thanks to the Microsoft Azure, a highly accessible, scalable, reliable, efficient and high-performance infrastructure than can respond to the needs is set up.
  • With the work carried out as Rehost at the IAAS level, the transition has been completed in a way that will affect the end users and administrators least.
  • Among the VMs transferred to Azure, especially for VMs with SQL roles, the flexibility provided by Azure enables management, maintenance, updating, redundancy and continuity through a single platform and server.
  • With the Azure VWAN service, Standard Profil now has a consistent and low-cost network infrastructure, and the delays are prevented.
  • The virtual server environment now has a more secure and monitorable structure owing to the Security and Monitoring service of Azure.
  • The system is migrated to the Azure environment without service interruption as a result of the project managed by experienced KoçSistem consultants.

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