Sörmland County Council Chooses Proact

Sörmland County Council turned to Proact IT Sweden when effective ways were needed for
handling the time-consuming backup process and improving disaster protection
and uptime.

The solution: backup using snapshot technology, a method which
could be integrated and operate alongside the council’s existing IT
environment. Snapshot technology involves taking snapshots, instantaneous
images, of files and systems which are then saved as virtual copies.

This solution uses deduplication of primary storage to
ensure that the same information is not stored several times over, thereby
saving plenty of space. The promise of 35 per cent savings has been exceeded by
a wide margin, and Sörmland County Council has achieved savings in excess of 80
per cent in some respects. The new solution also means that the county council
no longer needs backup software, software which used to involve major licensing
costs on a regular basis.

One of the advantages of the technologies is that
backups and recovery take just a minute or so to implement, instead of the
several hours required by traditional technology.

"The new system
has considerably simplified our backup processes. We used to be able to perform
one backup per day, but now we run several backups automatically throughout the
day," says Johan Isacsson, operations manager at Sörmland County
Council.

"With more
regular backups, the county council is not running the risk of losing
information if their systems go down, and recovery is also facilitated.
Locating and recreating specific files is also a lot more straightforward and
has enabled the county council to save a lot of time. We can liken the old
system to a cassette player, while the new system is more like an MP3 player.
Trying to find individual tracks is much quicker using the new technology,"
says Andreas Sidén, client manager at Proact.