Largest Hybrid Cloud Deal Received by Proact

Oil and gas company Lundin Petroleum AB has played an important role on the
Norwegian shelf in recent years, operating the Brynhild and Edvard Grieg
fields.

In addition, Lundin is crucial to the further development of the Johan Sverdrup
discovery, the largest oil discovery on the Norwegian continental shelf since
the mid-1980s. A demarcation program is implemented during 2012/2013 to
determine the discovery’s size.

Beyond this, the company has more than 50 licenses on the Norwegian continental
shelf. A total of 320 employees are working in and for the company. Lundin is
prepared for a significant growth in the coming years. The petroleum industry
requires the best IT tools. Lundin produces and store huge amounts of information,
particularly seismic and geological data.

"Last year’s data volumes
of 90TB have doubled this year. In 2013, this will likely increase to 320TB,
and the corresponding development in the year to come. Today’s NetApp solution
is running out of capacity. We therefore sought new approaches with a tender
where Proact drew the longest straw", says Martin Leslie, head of IT
at Lundin Norway. "Proact IT Group AB have
proven ability to serve as a strategic advisor and can point to a number of
references to small and large customers, nationally and internationally."

To ensure the best storage Proact will now take over responsibility for all
company data by a model where the equipment will be placed in the customer’s
environment and mirrored to a redundant location. Proact has overall
responsibility for both the primary and the secondary location, while the
customer has access to the equipment when necessary and if required. Thus
Lundin is ensured that they have enough capacity to handle the current amount
of data, and they can scale up to all future growth.
After a thorough investigation it was determined that the solution should
remain on a NetApp platform.

"As a player in
significant growth we need to ally ourselves with the best partners. Proact is
the biggest and best NetApp partner, and they had a flexible approach that met
our needs today and in the future. They have the expertise we need and has
proven this over the last twelve months", says Leslie.

"This agreement was the best pre-Christmas
gift we could get. It’s my colleagues’ knowledgeable and reliable delivery that
allows customers to put greater trust in us. The contract is an acknowledgment
of good deliveries and we shall show us trust worthy in the future",
says Pedersen.

"More and more customers
give us the confidence to manage their data sets. This allows them to focus on
their business while we securely handle the underlying processes. Many formerly
reserved to outsource data storage do not experience this as a problem anymore,
especially while it revolves around a local provider", says Pedersen.