Waternet has recently signed a 5-year contract with Proact for the supply, implementation and maintenance of a new storage infrastructure. This environment will serve as a basis for increasing availability and related IT infrastructure services.
In 2011, Waternet launched a project called “Vital” which centres on the renewal of the company’s IT infrastructure and increasing its availability. As part of this project, Proact has advised Waternet on modifying the existing storage infrastructure and placing a new platform in a second data centre. Both environments are based on NetApp technology and will guarantee required availability and scalability, now and in the future. The platform will also provide the required performance for a virtual desktop environment, set to be deployed in the future, through the use of NetApp Flash Cache technology.

Availability will be ensured by using Disaster Recovery & Backup replication for a second, fully refurbished, data centre. The NetApp...