Finnish Firm Helkama Emotor Opts for Proact

Proact IT Group AB revamped the server infrastructure of Helkama Emotor Oy, a diversified group known for its Jopo bicycles.

The rebuild of business-critical systems exceeded the expectations of Helkama Emotor and work faster than ever with lower costs. Proact has transferred the server infrastructure of Helkama Emotor to a converged infrastructure on a virtual platform.

The capital costs of the server environment are 30% lower than before. The systems work faster and are easier to manage. A lot of the capacity of the infrastructure still remains unused, and it will be easy to add more capacity later. Kim Wikström, IT manager, Helkama Emotor, estimates the electricity bill of the data center has dropped by approximately 20%.

“We needed a new solution, as it was becoming too demanding to expand the card server environment that had served us well,” Wikström explains.

The solution, based on Nutanix hardware and VMware virtual platform, provided by Proact has exceeded the expectations of Helkama Emotor.

The migration project of the approximately 30 servers at Helkama Emotor took less than three months, even though the schedule was not the tightest possible. In the integrated environment, the disks are connected directly to the servers. The memory of the physical servers and the processor cores are displayed as one resource pool, which makes management easier. Furthermore, it only takes a couple of minutes to increase the capacity by adding a new physical server.