Proact to Supply NetApp Solution at Aalto University

Proact Finland Oy, in storage solutions, supplies a storage solution to Aalto University.

The university storage devices are located in two separate data centres, which makes them well prepared for disaster recovery.

Of the Aalto University schools, Proact has supplied both the School of Science and Technology and the School of Economics with storage solution for more than ten years.

The School of Art and Design TaiK, the Helsinki School of Economics HSE and the School of Science and Technology were combined into Aalto University, and all three have completely different IT environments.

"In TaiK, a large amount of data, its processing in real-time and Macs are in a significant position, while HSE is a pure Windows house. TKK has plenty of Unix and Linux environments, all sorts of data processing and calculation," says Timo Larmela, leader of the Storage Services team in Aalto University.

Now these three IT environments will be made into a uniform domain with common home and work directories, common e-mail system, centralised disk and file service plus data backup. As a part of the unification project, Proact has supplied Aalto University with NetApp V3140 Stretched Metrocluster devices and related software.

The first NetApp solution was acquired by TKK in early 2001. During the decade, TKK has ordered a large number of solutions, for example, a backup application through Proact with support included. Previously TKK has been supplied with a dozen of NetApp disk systems, tape library ADIC Scalar i2000. LTO recorders, software licences and a backup software plus support for all of them.