CASE STUDY
V
-TAB is one of the largest printing
companies in the Nordic region
with six production sites across the
south and middle regions of Sweden. The
organisation’s core business comes from
national newspapers; however, its customers
also include well-known magazines and
business chains.
The company is able to handle large
capacity printing materials, but still
endeavours to act as a creative partner to all
of its clients, providing them with a bespoke
and personalised service.
As a comprehensive printing supplier, the
company has well-established procedures
for logistics, distribution and other postal
services, as well as a complete photo studio
that is open for client use.
Challenge
It is critical to the company’s success that
its operations are supported by a robust IT
environment that can meet high-capacity
orders, offer complete business continuity
and high-availability. The company was
operating on a mixture of virtualised and
non-virtualised environments, which had
reached the end of its lifespan. The existing
environment was six years old and V-TAB
saw this as an opportunity to upgrade.
Built on a core customer base of national
newspapers, the company couldn’t afford
to experience any downtime and the IT
team required technology that was simple
and easy to manage. Fredrik Bogårdh, IT
Manager at V-TAB, commented: “Our clients
rely on V-TAB to be a creative partner that
can offer a quality, but speedy service. For
this reason, we needed a solution that was
simple to navigate and gave us improved
high-availability and redundancy.”
Searching for a new solution with
Data Resilience
With the help of its partner, Data
Resilience, V-TAB evaluated the IT
market extensively looking for a robust
solution. Keen to eliminate the burden
of data management, the company first
considered outsourcing its I T requirements,
however after further research,
hyperconvergence become a clear choice.
“When comparing hyperconverged
solutions with the cost of outsourcing,
the figures just didn’t match up and
certainly didn’t point in the direction
of outsourcing,” explained Bogårdh.
IT REALLY IS
AS SIMPLE AS
PUTTING YOUR
DATA IN THE
CLOUD, BUT WITH
ADDED CONTROL.
“For this reason, we decided to opt for a
hyperconverged solution that we could
easily manage ourselves.”
As a result, the company considered various
options alongside Scale Computing. Bogård
commented: “We were 100% committed
to a hyperconverged platform and Scale
Computing felt like the perfect choice. One of
our core requirements was ensuring we could
simplify IT management to save both time
and money. We worked with our partner, Data
Resilience, to ensure all of our IT requirements
would be fulfilled and we have been extremely
pleased right from the start.”
Per-Ola Mård, Managing Director at Data
Resilience, explained: “We are always
looking to help customers meet their IT
requirements and for V-TAB, it was essential
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