Gant gains more efficient IT operations with solution from Proact

Proact has delivered a high availability, redundant and easier to manage solution to clothing brand Gant, with data centres in four countries.

The international clothing brand Gant has updated its IT infrastructure with support from Proact. Gant, with its corporate headquarters and enterprise IT management in Sweden, had previously implemented a virtualised environment in its data centres, using VMware software platforms. The company has recently taken this initiative one step further by updating IT infrastructure with Proact’s assistance, complemented by consulting and support services.

“We now operate a fully redundant environment, which delivers higher system availability and makes our business operations less vulnerable,” says Kenneth Karlsson, Global IT Infrastructure Manager at Gant. “The new infrastructure is also easier to manage, supporting our efforts for more efficient IT operations.”

Gant operates its own data centres in three European countries and in the United States, all of which have implemented the new solution. In the UK, a new converged solution has been installed to replace the entirety of the former systems environment, including servers, storage and networking. Gant has also deployed a new backup solution using snapshot technology, and backup management has been centralised to Sweden.

“We have a long-term relationship with Gant, a company with a well-designed strategy to actively engage inhouse IT resources and skills to develop its business,” says Lena Eskilsson, Managing Director Proact IT Sweden AB. “Gant has demonstrated how an international enterprise can successfully build and manage a high-performance, state-of-the-art IT infrastructure.”

For further information, please contact:

Jason Clark, CEO and President, Proact IT Group AB, tel +44 1246 266300 
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 datacentre and cloud services provider. Proact supplies business benefits by helping companies and authorities to reduce risk and costs, and above all to supply them with flexible, accessible and secure IT services. 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 720 employees and operates in 15 countries in Europe and in 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

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