24 feb 2017

Herning municipality in Denmark implements cloud solutions for automated server rollout and enhanced network security with technology delivered and supported by Proact.

Proact has delivered a new cloud solution for automated server rollout and enhanced network safety to the municipality of Herning in Denmark. Herning's IT department serves 4,500 users in administration and 16,000 users in the schools' network.

The municipality of Herning is a pioneer when it comes to IT, and has been using virtualization technology in its data centre for more than a decade. The IT department's mission is to increase the use of digital services based on a highly flexible and automated infrastructure.

The new solution enables further efficiencies, eliminating manual processes and time-consuming administrative tasks. The essential tool for achieving this is the VMware vRealize solution implemented by Proact, which automates the process of ordering and deploying new virtual servers and applications.

'The municipality has a highly skilled IT staff, but we had neither the time nor the experience to implement these completely new software components on our own,' says Mikael Korsgaard, Server Manager at the municipality of Herning. 'Fortunately, we found the resources and expertise we needed. Proact has brought innovation and counseling at the highest level into our partnership.'

Through a self-service portal, new servers can now be specified and ordered directly by authorised users and administrators, for instance in the schools' administration or the City library, and have them up and running within 15 minutes. This reduces the workload on IT staff and makes users independent of opening hours and resources from the IT department.

Additionally, the municipality of Herning has implemented a new virtualised networking solution which reinforces security through microsegmentation. This means that the network can automatically react in the event of a security breach and shut down communication to a compromised server.

For further information, please contact:

Jason Clark, CEO and President, Proact IT Group AB, tel + 44 1246 266 300
Peter Javestad, Vice President / IR, Proact IT Group AB, tel +46 733 56 67 22, peter.javestad@proact.eu

About Proact

Proact is Europe's leading independent data centre and cloud services provider. Proact supplies business benefits by helping companies and authorities to reduce risk and costs, and above all to supply them with flexible, accessible and secure IT services. Proact's cloud service operations manage 70 petabytes of information. Proact has completed more than 3,500 successful projects all over the world to date.

The Proact Group has more than 800 employees and operates in 15 countries in Europe and in the USA. Proact was founded in 1994, and its parent company Proact IT Group AB (publ) has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol PACT since 1999.

For further information about Proact's activities please visit us at www.proact.eu

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