Success stories — ASTOR rents cloud services from Colobridge for business continuity and rapid innovation implementation.

ASTOR is a network of four concrete plants in the Kyiv region with a total capacity of 8,000 m³ per day. The company produces all types of ready-mixed concrete and construction mortars, offering an assortment of over 6,000 formulas. It has its own R&D center that develops innovative products to tackle construction challenges of any complexity and advanced concreting technologies, allowing for faster, more efficient construction while saving costs. ASTOR Tech Service Support provides extraordinary on-site service to ensure high-quality concrete structures and reduce project expenses. With a network of four plants and an automated logistics management system, ASTOR delivers orders on time, regardless of location, adhering to a 60-minute delivery standard. Each concrete structure built with ASTOR concrete receives a certificate of technical and environmental safety, confirming the reliability and safety of the building from piles and foundation to floor slabs.

The search for a suitable service provider to host the IT infrastructure led ASTOR to Colobridge. Colobridge offered a high-performance platform tailored to the client’s needs, built on two certified fault-tolerant German data centers (Tier III/ Tier III+) managed by Europe’s top data center operators. The Colobridge team possessed the relevant IT expertise required by the client and operated 24/7, 365 days a year, enabling them to complete the migration in the shortest possible time. At that time, the company’s actual response time to client requests was no more than 15 minutes, with requests being sent through multiple communication channels and responses provided in the preferred language.

In the first stage of the work, the client’s IT infrastructure was analyzed, and a solution that met their needs was selected. This solution was a cloud with the rental of the appropriate Microsoft licenses, allowing the client to shift from capital expenditures to operational expenses and reduce initial investment costs.

The data was transferred during nighttime over the course of three days. Thanks to the prompt execution of tasks by Colobridge, the client was able to avoid critical downtime and the loss of valuable business information.

As the business evolved and new IT services emerged, the list of products used by ASTOR changed. In 2017, a migration to a new cloud (MS IaaS) was carried out with the participation of both the client’s technical specialists and Colobridge. The client’s team managed the process and adjusted the timelines, while the provider’s team performed all necessary tasks. Initially, both sites were integrated into one network to ensure uninterrupted business processes.

Later, ASTOR began additionally renting MS SQL licenses, connecting a firewall (FWaaS), and using a platform for automatic backup creation and storage (Backup as a Service – BaaS). The provider’s technical specialists also handle the administration of the client’s operating systems.