New data management infrastructure for Coventry City Council will ensure cost savings and room for data growth
In April the storage specialist Proact acquired B2net. Since then the company have closed several interesting customer deals on the British market.
B2net have recently secured a Data management infrastructure refresh project with Coventry City Council. The leading UK Council was experiencing challenges with managing an aged, disparate storage and backup infrastructure and required a platform that could meet their needs to reduce the cost of IT delivery whilst also enabling the council to achieve their long term strategic goals. B2net’s proposed solution was based on leading technology from NetApp with the design offering unrivalled cost savings, scope for future growth, flexibility and has the capacity for future requirements and multiple replication options as well as class leading whole life costs. The aim of the Council was to obtain a solution from a single supplier with a single point of contact for the support of the whole solution for 5 years with an option to extend this support and maintenance contract to 7 years.
“Our UK operations are continuing to successfully grow with a 21% increase quarter on quarter. There have been a significant number of new projects that have contributed to this success with the Coventry City Council project being a key win” says Olof Sand, CEO of Proact.
“We continue to show a fantastic rate of growth in the UK, year on year we’ve grown by more than 31% which is a great achievement in these challenging economic conditions. Now as part of the Proact family we expect this growth to continue to accelerate given the strength of the combined organisation. Recent contract wins such as Coventry City Council are extremely important to B2net, they demonstrate our customer’s confidence in our expertise and capabilities in helping them deliver and transform their IT services. These wins highlight that our flexible and agile solutions work across all sectors equally effectively, and are a great example of how we work with customers as their business continue to grow and change. Our customers have been tremendously supportive of the Proact acquisition, and are as excited as we are about the synergies that the integration of the UK’s leading storage integrator and Europe’s leading storage integrator will bring” says Jason Clark CEO of B2net UK.
For further information, please contact:
Olof Sand, CEO Proact IT Group AB
tel. +46 8 410 666 82, email: olof.sand@proact.se
Jason Clark, CEO B2Net LTD
tel. +44 (1246) 266300,email: jclark@b2net.co.uk
About Proact
Proact is a specialist in storage, archiving and securing large volumes of mission-critical information. As an independent integrator, Proact provides systems, support and consulting services within its focus area of data storage and archiving.
The Proact Group has more than 570 employees and conducts business in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. Proact was founded in 1994 and its parent company, Proact IT Group AB (publ) has been listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm since 1999 under the symbol PACT.
Additional information about Proact is available at www.proact.eu
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