OREANDA-NEWS. CROC leads the systems integration market in terms of number of cloud authorizations: the company’s portfolio includes cloud solutions from all leading global vendors. CROC has recently become a Citrix Cloud Solution Consultant as well as a Microsoft Gold Management and Virtualization Partner. In addition, CROC received an award for the “Leading Cloud Data Center 2012” from Extreme Networks.

Citrix Consultant authorization allows CROC to offer the Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack) designed for managing heterogeneous clouds and the Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager. A bundle of these two products is practical when the customer has a hybrid cloud based on virtualization platforms from different vendors as it centralizes and simplifies cloud management. For the customer, it will appear as if all virtual capacities were built on one technology and located in the same data center.

CROC’s Virtual Data Center uses an innovative OpenFlow technology which makes networking infrastructure flexible and programmable and has therefore been recognized as the leading cloud by Extreme Networks.

Microsoft Gold Management and Virtualization Partner status, coupled with the “private cloud” certification of CROC’s specialists, allows the company to create private clouds based on Microsoft products.

The EMC Service Provider status allows the company to create cloud infrastructure based on the vendor’s solutions and to use all of its consulting services, if necessary. In addition, it grants CROC access to EMC’s project knowledge base.

The Oracle Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Provider status authorizes CROC to offer unique services to the customer such as Oracle Transportation Management (OTM), Oracle Demantra and Oracle Strategic Network Optimization (SNO) on a subscription basis from the cloud with a pay-per-use model.

Finally, CROC has IBM Cloud Provider status which recognizes a high level of competence in building clouds on the vendor’s platform.

CROC’s Virtual Data Center is based on solutions from all of the above technology partners.

“CROC operates in the enterprise market: the current users of our cloud include a large bank, a media company, a government organization and companies in real estate, insurance, etc. We offer an individual approach to projects by combining the functions of a cloud provider and an integrator. We have expanded our competence with the Virtual Private Cloud technology which enables the creation of isolated cloud segments for those customers who would like to benefit from cloud computing but are not yet ready for cloud ‘neighbors’. Multivendor clouds are part of this approach. As a result, we can offer those technologies which are more convenient for the customer to use,” says Ruslan Zaedinov, Deputy Director General, Head of Data Centers and Cloud Computing, CROC.

CROC is the number one IT infrastructure design and implementation company in Russia (IDC reports, 2002-2012) and the leader in the Russian IT services market (РАС, 2012). CROC is one of the five largest IT companies in Russia (RIA Analytics 2012; Expert Rating Agency 2011) and one of Russia’s top 100 private companies (Forbes ranking of 200 Largest Private Companies in Russia, 2012).