For Bisnode Finland, managing and processing huge amounts of data is at the heart of daily operations. When the company decided to update its business-critical database environment, the ambition was to migrate the current multi-cloud IT infrastructure to a single, consolidated platform. The aim of this project was to simplify management, achieve outright cost savings, and to form a solid IT roadmap for the future. After analysing Bisnode’s requirements, Proact came to the conclusion that a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution would be an excellent fit from both a technical and business stance. Hyperconverged solutions feature highly integrated architecture that can be scaled easily while also taking up minimal data centre space.
“Migrating to the latest generation hyperconverged infrastructure is an attractive option on financial merits alone,” says Mika Nyholm, Managing Director at Proact in Finland. “For organisations like Bisnode Finland, HCI also facilitates IT governance, as it perfectly accommodates a multi-cloud strategy where mission-critical data and applications can stay on-premises.”
Bisnode was impressed by Proact’s design and chose to partner with the IT transformation specialist, opting to replace its existing environment with a single, integrated HCI system which delivers all compute capacity, while also managing storage, backup and networking. Besides delivering the solution’s enterprise-class hardware and software, Proact also provided implementation services.
The new HCI solution delivers an immediate, substantial operating cost reduction for Bisnode, resulting from energy and space savings as well as efficiencies achieved by automation and ease of management. Using Bisnode’s legacy environment as a benchmark, Proact’s experts presented a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis indicating that savings of 60 percent can be gained with the HCI environment.
“We are highly confident that the solution designed for us and delivered by Proact will serve us well over years to come,” says Niko Myller, Director of Operations at Bisnode Finland, “It combines superior economy with the high availability we require, and because it also scales easily, we get a clear and predictable growth path.”
