Apr 20, 2015. /Lesprom Network/. Sawmill group VIDA has chosen Proact to supply its IT infrastructure. The company is also upgrading its data centre and replacing most of its hardware. VIDA has centralised its IT operations at a data centre serving collective group functions and production facilities all over southern Sweden. A range of business-critical applications are run here, including systems for timber purchasing and sawmill production management, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

VIDA has now selected a solution from Proact which is based on the FlexPod reference architecture, using equipment such as Cisco UCS blade servers and NetApp storage systems, including disk-based backup. All data storage will be mirrored to a secondary data centre, thereby also giving the company considerably stronger disaster protection than it used to have.

“We like both the performance and the security we get as part of the FlexPod concept, with support from Proact. This is also a cost-effective solution as we are now making a complete switch to a modern, virtualised infrastructure,” says Magnus Linnér, Head of IT at VIDA.

VIDA AB is Sweden’s biggest privately owned sawmill group, employing around 900 staff at 17 production plants in Småland, Skåne and Västra Götaland, seven of which are sawmills.