Proact IT Group — Regulatory Filings 2012

Jul 31, 2012

Proact MCS wins 'NetApp Solution Partner of the year' thanks to advanced cloud services

ProBox, Proact's award-winning Managed Cloud Services solution, recognised for innovation and reliability

July 2012: Proact, Europe's leading storage integrator and cloud services provider, has been chosen by NetApp as its 2012 Solution Partner of the year following the success of its managed cloud services solution, ProBox. The announcement was made at a recent NetApp Channel Kick-Off event, attended by partners of the NetApp community.

ProBox is Proact's answer to the trend towards cloud based file storage and sharing. It allows secure collaboration with enterprise grade service levels combined with Proact's FlexPod as a Service offering. NetApp recognised Proacts commitment to its customers as well as its expertise, vision and ability to deliver on trends.

"I am proud to recognise Proact as NetApp Solution Provider of the Year 2012. They have built many great solutions with anAgile Data Infrastructure based on NetApp. However, it was highly impressive to see Proact seize a market opportunity and create Probox, a secure and compliant file sharing service for business users. They delivered an outstanding example of how NetApp solutions enable innovation and accelerate time to market," says Thomas Ehrlich, Vice President Channel, SI& Alliance EMEA at NetApp.

Jason Clark, CEO at Proact comments: "This is a great win for Proact, and a real boost for all involved. Our partnership with NetApp is strong and we are proud to be recognised by them as a company that delivers, is forward-thinking and innovative in product and service development. We are committed to using NetApp technology and continuing our fruitful partnership."

Proact has delivered enterprise class cloud services to companies across Europe for more than a decade. The company has over 11 petabytes of critical customer data under its management and more than 3,500 joint customers. Leveraging on NetApp's technical ability, Proact have developed its Managed Cloud Services to allow its customers the benefits of enterprise technology on a pay per month basis.

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About Proact

Proact is Europe's leading independent storage integrator and cloud services enabler. Delivering business agility since 1994 Proact help organisations across the globe reduce risk, reduce cost and most importantly deliver flexible, available and highly secure IT services.

Proact's solutions cover all aspects of data storage, virtualisation, networking and security - with over 3,500 projects successfully delivered and 10PB of data under management in the Proact Enterprise Cloud.

The Proact Group has more than 650 employees and conducts business in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Proact was founded in 1994 and its parent company, Proact IT Group AB (publ) has been listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm since 1999 under the symbol PACT.

Additional information about Proact is available at www.proact.eu