Proact to Deliver EMC VNX 5700 to University of Oulu

Proact
IT Group, will deliver a disk system to the University
of Oulu.

The purpose of the solution, to be
located in a data centre, is to store the home directories of 20,000
users, among others. 

"Due to our high number of
users, centralised storage systems is one of the most critical
information systems of our university," says Veikko Suorsa,
IT manager of the University of Oulu.

The company will deliver an EMC VNX
5700 disk system to the University. The solution complements with
the existing storage system. With VNX, it is possible to expand and
replicate the current storage system. 

Proact and the University of Oulu have
been cooperating for a long time.

"The university’s own
information management people know a lot. However, they do not need
to acquire all special expertise by themselves especially when that
type of expertise is required very seldom. Our experts work closely
throughout the project and even afterwards," states sales manager Kimmo Nurmivuori of Proact.

For the next few years, the goal of the
University is to solve the long-term storage and archiving of
data.