Alstom’s roadmap promises to be particularly busy for the next five years, as evidenced by the content of the call for tenders won by DXC Technology. The IT service provider is renewed in its functions.
And he will have a lot to do within the framework of the contract which indeed covers the entire Alstom information system. However, priorities are emerging. Chief among these is the optimization of cloud infrastructure.
Cloud, but at a lower cost and hybrid
Alstom intends to progress in this sector. Its supplier will therefore be responsible for developing “an optimal cloud strategy with controlled costs”. DXC will also have to operate at scale since the project concerns 122 sites.
In order to achieve this optimized infrastructure, particularly in terms of costs, Alstom has defined areas for improvement. Among these, he cites the rationalization of the urbanization of its infrastructures.
The expected optimization will also involve “modernization” of business applications, including SAP. To reconcile cloud and cost control, exclusive use of the public cloud is not necessarily the best option.
Thus, “to protect its data and control its costs, DXC will help Alstom maintain its data center infrastructure on certain sites”, indicates the technological partner of the industrial group.
1000 VMs migrated to Azure
Stéphane Detruiseux, director of information security and vice president of technology at Alstom, emphasizes the expectations for “a secure and flexible infrastructure”, necessary according to him to “accelerate business agility and lay the foundation for future growth.” This trajectory results in a cloud strategy focused on the hybridization of IS and infrastructures.
“Migrating and optimizing our infrastructure to public cloud and hybrid cloud was a key part of this transformation and working with DXC allows us to choose the most efficient and cost-effective solutions,” comments the Alstom IT executive. , which once again points out the cost.
The implementation of the cloud strategy and the optimization plan has already started, as the supplier points out, for example through the deployment of DXC Platform X for the automation of IT production.
The result: the unification of “storage, networking and computing functions in a single, highly virtualized solution.” In terms of infrastructure, this resulted in the migration of more than 1000 virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.