Reinier de Graaf opts for “Infrastructure as a service” from PROACT
The Reinier de Graaf Hospital has just signed an agreement to establish an ‘IT infrastructure as a service’ with Databasement, which became part of Proact in January 2011. Under this agreement Reinier de Graaf has for the next five years secured itself a fully-hosted and managed server and storage infrastructure based in two secure data centres.
The services which will be provided are primary storage, archiving and backup. Proact is also responsible for the server infrastructure and is supplying managed virtual server and workstation capacity based on the virtualisation technology of VMWare. With data replication between the data centres the hospital also has the option of switching to a second location.
Receiving services on the basis of ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS) offers the hospital flexibility and scalability as regards its IT infrastructure. Instead of investing in its own hardware Reinier de Graaf will receive managed services with availability guarantees.
A unique feature of this solution is that all the services are procured on a ‘pay per use’ basis. With set and foreseeable monthly costs the hospital can keep control of its IT costs. This cooperation essentially relieves Reinier de Graaf of any work relating to IT infrastructure.
Tjeerd Bloembergen, formerly Managing Director of Databasement and now Director for Business Unit Benelux & Spain Proact Group, is happy with the agreement, “This agreement confirms that not only Netherlands business, but also the hospital world is ready for a solution like ‘infrastructure as a service’. It’s no longer utopian to think of getting your IT infrastructure in the same way as getting water from a tap.”
About Reinier de Graaf (www.rdgg.nl)
The Reinier de Graaf Group is a general hospital providing services for the inhabitants of Delft, the Westland, Voorburg, Rijswijk, south-west Den Haag and the towns of Pijnacker, Nootdorp and Ypenburg, an area in which roughly 300,000 people live and work.
The Reinier de Graaf Group also includes the hospitals in Delft and Voorburg, the Westland treatment centre in Naaldwijk and the De Reef health centre in Ypenburg. The Reinier de Graaf Group is part of the STZ, the Association of Tertiary Medical Teaching Hospitals. STZ hospitals have joined together to collaborate in the training of consultants, with the aim of providing high quality patient care.
About Proact (www.proact.eu)
Proact is a specialist in storage, archiving and securing large volumes of mission-critical information. As an independent integrator, Proact provides systems, support and consultancy services within its focus area of data storage and archiving.
The Proact Group has more than 420 employees and conducts business in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, 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 PACT symbol.
About Databasement (www.databasement.eu)
Databasement is one of the largest suppliers of data management solutions and services in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and became part of the Proact Group in January 2011. From its beginnings Databasement has had a unique hybrid approach to business allowing organisations the freedom to choose whether to have their own IT infrastructure or to outsource all or part of it through use of Databasement’s cloud services. Databasement handles transition and migration in a highly professional manner, gradually adapting the IT infrastructure until the right combination of internal IT infrastructure and internal or external cloud services is achieved.
Contact:
Jeroen Hendriks, Marketing Manager BENELUX & Spain Proact, tel.: +31(0) 79 361 97 65
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