Office Line S.A., the internationally recognized Cloud Solution provider in the global Market and Microsoft Country Partner of the Year 2019 for Greece, successfully implemented a Disaster Recovery plan for the Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA) S.A., who manages a critical energy infrastructure for the country, safeguarding the uninterrupted operational continuity of its activities. In particular, Azure, platform-based solution, ensures the adequacy of DESFA’s IT infrastructure, in case of an emergency, while ensuring uninterrupted availability – in real time – of its data with full recovery capability in the event of a natural disaster.
Upon completion of the project from Office Line, DESFA benefits, as follows:
- Reduction of the total cost (TCO) of IT’S infrastructure up to 70%.
- Ensure operational continuity in support functions of the Organization
- Protecting Organization’s publicly accessible applications
- Ensure high availability of systems and infrastructure
- Elimination of business and investment risk
- IT Standards compliance
In addition, during the implementation of the project, Office Line upgraded critical infrastructure of the Organization such as: virtualization platform operating system, database version, and SharePoint operating environment, contributing to the successful development of Disaster Recovery Plan.
Mr. Petros Theodorakis, General Services Division Director of the Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA) S.A., said in this regard: “For DESFA, business continuity is a necessary condition of its activity, since security of gas supply to the country is one of the key priorities of our mission as a company. By cooperating with Office Line, we are not only ensuring uninterrupted operation of our IT systems, but we are also achieving a significant reduction cost of acquiring them.”
Mr. Panagiotis Kouris, CEO, of Office Line, said: “This is a vital project, as it ensures business continuity in a company that manages a critical national infrastructure. We are very grateful to DESFA, for trusting us, with its digital transformation and we are very pleased that this relationship of trust has evolved to a successful partnership.”
