Converged infrastructure from Proact lowered expenses and increased output at Helkama Emotor
Proact revamped the server infrastructure of the diversified group known for its Jopo bicycles. The business-critical systems of Helkama Emotor now work faster than ever with lower costs. The rebuild exceeded the expectations of Helkama Emotor.
Proact has transferred the server infrastructure of Helkama Emotor to a converged infrastructure on a virtual platform.
The capital costs of the new server environment are 30 percent lower than before. Now, the systems work faster and are easier to manage than before. A lot of the capacity of the new infrastructure still remains unused, and it will be easy to add more capacity later. Kim Wikström, IT Manager of Helkama Emotor, estimates the electricity bill of the data center has dropped by approximately 20 per cent.
"We needed a new solution, as it was becoming too demanding to expand the card server environment that had served us well," Kim Wikström explains. The solution, based on Nutanix hardware and VMware virtual platform, provided by Proact has exceeded the expectations of Helkama Emotor. As an independent data center integrator, Proact is always able to provide the most appropriate solution for the needs of its clients.
The migration project of the approximately 30 servers at Helkama Emotor took less than three months, even though the schedule was not the tightest possible. In the integrated environment, the disks are connected directly to the servers. The memory of the physical servers and the processor cores are displayed as one resource pool, which makes management easier. Furthermore, it only takes a couple of minutes to increase the capacity by adding a new physical server.
For further information, please contact:
Martin Ödman, CEO and President, Proact IT Group AB, tel +46 733 56 68 11, martin.odman@proact.eu
Peter Javestad, Vice President / IR, Proact IT Group AB, tel +46 733 56 67 22, peter.javestad@proact.eu
About Proact
Proact is Europe’s leading independent integrator in the field of integrated systems (data storage, servers and networks) and private cloud services. Proact supplies business benefits by helping companies and authorities the world over to reduce risk and costs, and above all to supply flexible, accessible and secure IT services.
Proact solutions cover all data centre elements, including storage, servers, security and network functions. In addition, Proact’s cloud service operations manage 70 petabytes of information. Proact has completed more than 3,500 successful projects all over the world to date.
The Proact Group has more than 680 employees and conducts business in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the USA. Proact was founded in 1994, and its parent company Proact IT Group AB (publ) has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol PACT since 1999.
For further information about Proact’s activities please visit us at www.proact.eu
About Helkama Emotor
Helkama Velox, a subsidiary of Helkama Emotor, is a bicycle manufacturer and importer known for its Jopo bicycles. Suomen Polkupyörätukku, another subsidiary, sells bicycles and other exercise equipment in its 15 stores. The group receives most of its turnover from Helkama Bica that manufactures maritime and industrial cables. In addition Helkama-Auto, which with its subsidiaries is responsible for Skoda import and Avis and Budget car rental operations, is an associated company of Helkama Emotor. The total turnover of the Helkama companies is approximately 280 million euros.
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