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IT Infrastructure & Data Continuity

If the books live on a server in Russia, head office can lose them to a VPN block, an IP closure, or a bad week on the Russian internet. We designed the alternative.

No books, no wind-down

A liquidation, an FTS objection, or a board paper needs the trial balance. If 1C is unreachable, every other mandate waits, and reconstruction from paper is slower and worse.

  • VPN blocks and hoster IP filters
  • A single on-prem box with no off-site copy
  • Shared “admin” passwords across the old local team
  • No audit log of who in HQ actually opened the file

What it is

Finance, internal audit, and counsel cannot administer the company — operating or quiet — without the ledger. 1C (and the less common SAP / Oracle localizations) usually still sit in a Moscow closet or on a hoster that will not take a U.S. source IP. Staff VPN is not a control. It fails, it is often blocked, and it puts a U.S. person on a Russian network segment.

Colibry operates dedicated servers in Russia and a mirror in the United States. The affiliate administers the Russia side. Your people reach current data through the U.S. mirror — role-based, logged, 2FA — without a session into the Russian segment.

What is in scope — and what is not

We do

  • Hosting of 1C, SAP, Oracle, or other ledgers on dedicated Colibry servers in Russia
  • Scheduled replication to the U.S. mirror (default every 72 hours; daily available)
  • Secure access for finance, accounting, compliance, and internal audit via the U.S. side
  • Role-based permissions, connection audit log, two-factor authentication
  • 24/7 replication monitoring and immediate notice of a failed job
  • Russia-side administration by the affiliate’s in-house team
  • Monthly technical report: status, backup dates, volume, incidents

We do not

  • Building you a new ERP
  • Direct VPN into the Russian segment for U.S. staff
  • Hosting of systems that would themselves violate export controls — we screen first

Architecture

Your U.S. headquarters

  • Finance, compliance, internal audit
  • Access via the U.S. mirror — no Russian VPN
  • Role-based permissions and 2FA

Colibry U.S. mirror

  • Encrypted replication from Russia
  • Default every 72 hours; daily available
  • Incident monitoring, 24-hour emergency response

Russia-based servers — Colibry affiliate

  • 1C / other ledgers hosted on dedicated equipment
  • Administered by in-house staff of the non-U.S. affiliate
  • Daily backups with a defined retention policy

How the work runs

  1. 01

    Estate read

    What runs, where, which version of 1C, who has keys.

  2. 02

    Stand-up

    Russia host, U.S. mirror, replication, 2FA, roles.

  3. 03

    Cutover

    A defined weekend or a parallel week. We do not “just copy the folder.”

  4. 04

    Run

    Monitoring, monthly report, restore tests on a stated cadence.

Calendar

WhenWhat
Weeks 1–4Deploy and cut over
Default 72h / optional dailyReplication
MonthlyTechnical report and restore sample

What we need to start

Missing items are a workstream, not a reason to wait. A signed note that a year of filings does not exist is more useful than another month of silence.

  • System list and versions (1C configuration name matters)
  • Current hoster or hardware notes
  • User list and the roles you want in HQ
  • Any existing backup you still have

Reporting

Monthly technical report in English. Immediate notice of replication failure. Restore-test date on the calendar.

Who it is for

Groups that need the 1C (or equivalent) ledger — for a going concern or a quiet file — and cannot depend on staff VPN into Russia.

We will not take

  • A request to give U.S. users a direct pipe onto a Russian office LAN

Fees and start

Fixed-scope engagements with fees agreed in advance. Pricing is set after an initial consultation at no charge. Deployment and initial setup: 2–4 weeks. Then continuous. See how the New York contract works and the week-one document pack.

Questions on this mandate

Does HQ connect to Russia?
No. HQ connects to the U.S. mirror. The replica comes the other way, administered by the non-U.S. affiliate.
Is daily replication available?
Yes. Default is 72 hours because it is enough for most dormant books and cheaper. Trading remnants may want daily.
What about personal data?
We treat the ledger as confidential client data, with role-based access and logs. Cross-border copies are part of the design you sign; we will not pretend Russian localization rules are trivial — they are scoped in the engagement letter.

Confidential intake

Begin with a conversation, not a wire to Russia.

Complimentary initial consultation. We typically respond within one business day. Inquiries are handled with complete discretion.

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