Scouting Nederland, with more than 100,000 members the largest youth organization in the Netherlands, selects Proact to supply and implement a new converged data center infrastructure solution. Proact is supplying the total solution for hardware and software under a three-year contract signed by Scouting Nederland.
The validated EMC VSPEX total solution includes EMC storage, Cisco servers, Cisco networking and virtualization software from VMware set up at two Scouting Nederland sites. The VSPEX solution replaces the obsolete data center components with a new, standardized and cost-efficient platform.
The components of the platform are fully coordinated, so the total solution fits in perfectly with Scouting Nederland’s requirements for performance, availability and manageability.
In addition Scouting Nederland also benefits from a lower TCO and extremely high performance of the various Scouting systems, including the ScoutShop webshop, thanks to use of Flash technology and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (PHASE) on the EMC storage systems.
Vincent Klop, team leader ICT at Scouting Nederland says, “Proact worked with us proactively and critically throughout and showed that they set a high priority on knowledge and service. Several solutions were discussed from an independent perspective, and in the end we made the best choice together. Not just for now, but also in line with our vision of the future.”
“Through our cooperation with leading business partners Proact always has access to the latest technologies. This means we can offer the best combination of hardware and software to our clients now and in the future. We are looking forward to a successful cooperation with Scouting Nederland,” says Lucas den Os, Managing Director of Proact Netherlands.
