Case Study: Free Royal Town of Skalica achieves reduced IT costs and faster, more responsive public services with VMware

New Cloud Infrastructure Helps Skalica City Administration Improve Public Services

The Free Royal Town of Skalica in western Slovakia, a municipal government of about 15,000 residents, faced the need to modernize its IT infrastructure after adopting cloud services in 2013. Its key challenges were reducing server operation costs, building a secure and flexible cloud platform, and automating and simplifying IT management to ensure high availability and data protection for citizen services.

Skalica partnered with Slovanet to deploy a next‑generation VMware-based cloud using vSAN, NSX and vCloud Director, enabling centralized management, rapid provisioning and scalable resources. The move cut upfront infrastructure costs by 10–15%, reduced administration and power expenses, improved system responsiveness and boosted overall IT operational effectiveness and availability.

Free Royal Town of Skalica

Anton Bobrik

Director of Municipal Administration