Proact Selected by Scouting Nederland

Scouting Nederland, a youth organization in the Netherlands with more than 100,000 members, selects Proact IT Group AB to supply and implement a converged data center infrastructure solution.

Proact is supplying the total solution for hardware and software under a three-year contract signed by Scouting Nederland.

The validated EMC VSPEX total solution includes EMC storage, Cisco servers, Cisco networking and virtualization software from VMware set up at two Scouting Nederland sites. The VSPEX solution replaces the obsolete data center components with a new, standardized and cost-efficient platform.

The components of the platform are coordinated, so the total solution fits in with Scouting Nederland’s requirements for performance, availability and manageability.

In addition Scouting Nederland also benefits from a lower TCO and performance of the various Scouting systems, including the ScoutShop webshop, thanks to use of flash technology and automated storage tiering (PHASE) on the EMC storage systems.

Vincent Klop, team leader ICT, Scouting Nederland, says: “Proact worked with us proactively and critically throughout and showed that they set a high priority on knowledge and service. Several solutions were discussed from an independent perspective, and in the end we made the best choice together. Not just for now, but also in line with our vision of the future.“

“Through our cooperation with leading business partners Proact always has access to the latest technologies. This means we can offer the best combination of hardware and software to our clients now and in the future. We are looking forward to a successful cooperation with Scouting Nederland,” says Lucas den Os, MD, Proact Netherlands.