Swedish Firm Munters Opts for Proact

Sweden-based Munters AB, in air treatment solutions, with manufacturing and sales in 30 countries, selected Proact IT Group AB to deliver Backup-as-a-Service.

Munters predominantly operates its IT infrastructure and hosting internally, using its own staff.

Some applications, including functions with the highest availability and support requirements, are outsourced to hosting service providers or delivered through cloud services.

Munters began evaluating a backup solution with the intention to purchase, deploy and operate this internally – in the same fashion as with the existing backup process. Proact was prepared to deliver backup software to match this requirement, but recommended that Munters consider Backup-as-a-Service, which delivers a complete data centre backup function as a managed service.

“We were pleased to learn that Backup-as-a-Service by Proact offered the safest solution for our needs, and that a managed service also offers greater flexibility, compared with a conventional backup solution,” says Per Brandt, director group IT, Munters. “The workload on our IT operations staff is reduced by a provider that we can trust, while we have the option to extend the service to cover the greater part of our Group’s needs.“

Munters is using Backup-as-a-Service to support its business in Sweden and three subsidiaries in Europe, with the option to add more markets subsequently.

Proact has relaunched its Backup-as-a-Service using an enhanced technology platform that offers extended support for various types of storage, multiple systems environments and product vendors. It can be implemented for conventional data centre operations as well as for cloud services or hybrid environments with data stored in multiple locations: in-house, with hosting services, or in the cloud. Backup-as-a-Service also eliminates the need for customers to invest in products or dedicated staff for managing backups and all costs are fixed and predictable.

“Our updated Backup-as-a-Service both reflects and goes beyond the paradigm shift in infrastructure design we are experiencing at customer sites today“, says Lena Eskilsson, MD, Proact Sweden. “We often encounter organisations like Munters, that are open towards the cloud and its great potential, while the bulk of their mission-critical applications and data remain in-house.”

Proact’s managed backup solution also provides Munters with an additional level of disaster preparedness, as copies of enterprise data are always maintained. Previously, Munters relied on an off-site vault for secure storage of tape backups, a service no longer needed.