Proact Upgrades à–stgötaTrafikens’ IT

Proact IT Sweden AB has updated
local transport company ÖstgötaTrafikens
IT infrastructure to increase continuity, performance and data access.

The project has included, amongst other things, new solutions for storage,
backup and network. The project started at the beginning of 2012 and was
completed during the summer. The agreement also includes ongoing support from
Proact.

ÖstgötaTrafiken is responsible for public transport and the county
assisted travel service in Östergötland County in Sweden. The company provides
transport by bus, train and tram on 190 routes in the countys´13
municipalities. During a regular day the company cover 9 350 European
miles with a fleet consisting of 350 vehicles. To increase performance, flexibility
and continuity in the operations, Proact has now updated a significant part of
the IT infrastructure.

"We have updated our IT infrastructure in
order to meet the increased demands of data access and secure backup from the
internal organization, but also to meet the increasing customer demands of
accessibility in our external systems. Our IT plays a vital role in the
customer experience and to secure service delivery to the end consumer we
identified a need to renew ourselves by adding power and capacity in our entire
IT infrastructure. Proact has delivered on those demands by installing a
flexible end-to-end solution which we can grow with," says Zeraldin
Hajdarevic, CIO, ÖstgötaTrafiken.

To address the demands of ÖstgötaTrafiken, Proact presented a
solution including migration of the old platform to an upgraded version,
configuration of switches and consolidation of file servers and around 60
virtual servers.

ÖstgötaTrafiken has also received new solutions for management, storage and
backup. To protect previous IT investments, the previous IT environment
is used for testing and development.

"ÖstgötaTrafiken has a strong
link between the IT function and the core operations. Both travelers and
employees are depending on IT continuity. It has been great working with
ÖstgötaTrafiken as we have managed the project from start to finish. Today
ÖstgötaTrafiken has an IT environment addressing both current and future IT
challenges," says Martin Ödman, regional manager, Proact.