Proact to deliver a storage solution to the University of Oulu
Espoo, 21 January, 2013. Proact, the leading independent storage integrator and cloud infrastructure enabler in Europe, will deliver a new disk system to the University of Oulu. The purpose of the solution, to be located in a new data centre, is to store the home directories of 20,000 users, among others.
“Due to our high number of users, centralised storage systems is one of the most critical information systems of our university,” says Veikko Suorsa, IT manager of the University of Oulu.
Proact will deliver an EMC VNX 5700 disk system to the University of Oulu. The new solution complements well with the existing storage system. With VNX, it is possible to expand and replicate the current storage system without problems.
Proact and the University of Oulu have been cooperating for a long time.
“The university’s own information management people know a lot. However, they do not need to acquire all special expertise by themselves especially when that type of expertise is required very seldom. Our experts work closely throughout the project and even afterwards,” states Sales Manager Kimmo Nurmivuori of Proact.
For the next few years, the goal of the University of Oulu is to solve the long-term storage and archiving of data.
For further information, please contact:
Mika Nyholm, Managing Director, Proact Finland Oy, phone +358 (0)40 180 3882, mika.nyholm@proact.fi
Martin Ödman, CEO, Proact IT Group AB, phone +46 31 760 68 11, martin.odman@proact.eu
About the University of Oulu
The University of Oulu is an international science university, which creates innovation for the future, well-being and knowledge through multidisciplinary research and education.
Founded in 1958, our research and education community is 16 000 students and 3000 employees strong, and one of the biggest and the most multidisciplinary universities in Finland. The six faculties, the many departments and the specialized r
esearch units of the University of Oulu create the foundation for multiscientific research, innovation and training of experts for demanding professional tasks.
http://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/
For further information, please contact:
Mika Nyholm, Managing Director, Proact Finland Oy, phone +358 (0)40 180 3882, mika.nyholm@proact.fi
Martin Ödman, CEO, Proact IT Group AB, phone +46 31 760 68 11, martin.odman@proact.eu
About Proact
Proact is Europe's leading independent storage integrator and cloud services enabler. Delivering business agility since 1994 Proact help organisations across the globe reduce risk, reduce cost and most importantly deliver flexible, available and highly secure IT services.
Proact’s solutions cover all aspects of data storage, virtualisation, networking and security - with over 3,500 projects successfully delivered and 10PB of data under management in the Proact Enterprise Cloud.
The Proact Group has more than 650 employees and conducts business in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. 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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