携手阿里云,这家菲律宾软件咨询公司轻松将工作负载迁移到云端

——Workcentric董事总经理Aureo Castillo

Workcentric是一家拥有20多年专业知识的软件咨询公司，为菲律宾政府机构和私营企业提供先进的技术和服务。公司专注于财务和运营绩效管理 (FOPM)、数据仓库、数据集成、业务分析和流程自动化。

Workcentric开发了一款主要在本地管理的预算规划和管理应用程序。然而，他们在过去的设置中遇到了以下痛点：

• 难以按需扩展或缩减工作负载

• 管理和维护本地系统的IT成本较高

• 无法有效应对安全威胁

为了解决这些问题，Workcentric决定将这些工作负载迁移到云端，通过按需付费模式保持成本可控，并其寻找一个灵活、高效和创新的解决方案。

Workcentric通过阿里云的在菲律宾的伙伴 VSTECS了解到了阿里云，并选择与阿里云合作，因为阿里云提供了广泛的服务，包括全面的安全解决方案，以满足安全和合规要求；阿里云在菲律宾拥有本地数据中心和业务，这使得与其他云提供商相比，与阿里云集成解决方案成为一个简单的决策。通过利用菲律宾数据中心的低延迟优势，Workcentric将工作负载部署在阿里云，并获得了VSTECS提供的快速服务。

Workcentric采用了阿里云的安全产品组合，实现了智能检测和防护系统。使用云服务器ECS实例让Workcentric团队能够更快地实现从初始测试到上线生产的结果。为实现更高水平的SLA，Workcentric配置了多个ECS实例，并部署了应用负载均衡 (ALB)，以平衡这些ECS实例之间的流量，帮助 Workcentric实现了弹性、按需扩展并管理大量网络流量。

由于应用程序还需要在用户之间共享重要的非结构化数据，阿里云的对象存储服务 (OSS)在该架构中发挥了重要作用，以高持久性和可扩展性共享这些数据/对象。

在数据库管理方面，Workcentric希望拥有完全托管的数据库服务。ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL是理想的选择——他们的应用是使用MySQL 数据库在本地构建的。

由于存储重要的预算和规划数据是另一个关键优先事项，云环境通过阿里云的云安全中心确保了免受勒索软件、各种恶意软件和网络篡改的影响。作为额外的安全保护层，Workcentric还部署了阿里云Web应用程序防火墙 (WAF)，以应对 Web 应用程序层中的零日漏洞。

通过与阿里云和VSTECS合作，Workcentric将持续扩展其系统的能力，包括增加自动化功能，以进一步推动公司内部和客户对云技术的使用。

——Aureo Castillo, Managing Director, Workcentric

Workcentric is a local software consultancy firm with over 20 years of expertise, providing advanced technology and services to government agencies and private enterprises in the Philippines. They specialize in financial and operations performance management (FOPM), data warehousing, data integration, business analytics, and process automations.

Workcentric developed a budget planning and management app mainly managed on-premise. In the previous setup, they experienced the following pain points, which drove them to look for an agile, efficient, and innovative alternative. Workcentric encountered many challenges:

• Difficulty scaling the workloads up and down when needed

• Higher IT cost to manage and maintain the on-premise system

• Disorganization when mitigating security threats

One of the main goals is to migrate these workloads to the cloud and keep the cost manageable with a pay-as-you-go model. Workcentric needed a provider with a good breadth of services, including a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions to comply with security and compliance regulations.

Workcentric reached out to Alibaba Cloud through its distributor, VSTECS. Alibaba Cloud and VSTECS worked proactively with Workcentric’s Team to come up with a well-architected framework to address requirements and challenges as they transitioned from on-premise to the cloud.

With Alibaba Cloud’s local data center and presence in the Philippines, it was an easy choice for Workcentric to integrate Alibaba Cloud solutions, especially when compared to other cloud providers. Workcentric took advantage of lower latencies, hosting workloads in the Philippines data center and swift service (courtesy of VSTECS).

Workcentric adopted a mixture of Alibaba Cloud security products, allowing more room for intelligent detection and protection systems.

Alibaba Cloud helped Workcentric comply with local laws and regulations seamlessly and efficiently.

The framework involves Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, enabling the Workcentric Team to achieve faster results from initial testing to live production. Multiple ECS instances were configured to achieve a high level of SLA, and Application Load Balancer (ALB) was also deployed to balance the traffic among those ECS instances. ALB helped Workcentric become elastic, scale on-demand, and manage large amounts of network traffic.

Since the application also needed a way to share important, unstructured data among its users, Object Storage Services (OSS) played an important role in this architecture, sharing those data/objects with high durability and scalability.

Regarding database management, Workcentric wanted to have fully hosted database services. ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL was the logical choice since their application was built on-premise using a MySQL database.

Since housing important budgeting and planning data was another key priority, the cloud environment ensured protection from ransomware, various malware, and web tampering through Alibaba Cloud’s Security Center. As an added layer of security, Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) was deployed for zero-day vulnerabilities in the web application layer.

Workcentric (in partnership with Alibaba Cloud and VSTECS) will continue to expand the capacity and capability of its system, including adding automation functions, aiming to further its cloud adoption in-house and for its clientele.