Infrastructure
Introduction
Infrastructure means the common, foundational technologies which support our solutions.
These are a diverse set of generic technologies chosen for several reasons including
- they follow the strategic direction and partnerships in place
- they are best in class
- they are widely adopted and reflect the particular skills and ways-of-working within the company
The landscape is characterized by several major elements
- the Azure- and SAP-first, strategic cloud based environments
- legacy and go-forward, on premise environments
- employee office and mobile environments
- factory and other manufacturing environments
- customers and the wider Internet
which shape the infrastructure used across the company in terms of design, technology, operations and ongoing projects to evolve it.
It should be noted that partner, vendor and agency SaaS based solutions are excluded here as we considering "infrastructure", and those 3rd parties manage their own infrastructure under contract to Essity. Equally, we still retain formal consideration of their infrastructure for Essity business e.g. in terms of operational usage, data security, being a GDPR data processor etc., where their infrastructure must also meet Essity standards.
Pillars
Infrastructural is foundational, so it a good analogy to refer to the various areas of infrastructure as pillars.
These pillars include:
- DNS
- Global Traffic Delivery
- Network
- Certificates
- Cybersecurity
- Gateways
- DevSecOps
- Compute
- Identity and Access Management
- Observability
Locations
It could be considered to add "Cloud" as a pillar, but like "Edge" and "On-premise" these are more the organisation and locations of the pillars
Refer to the child pages to explore these pillars and locations