Piab eliminates barriers to strategic IT with iland, now 11:11 Systems, cloud and disaster recovery services.

Piab, a leader in industrial automation, was facing challenges with its production servers and disaster recovery. The company had been using its own servers at a colocation data center in Stockholm, but any time a hard drive failed or the IT team needed to add RAM or storage, a staff member had to physically drive to the location more than 30 minutes away. Then they had to deal with security procedures and equipment delivery in and out of the data center. Faced with the prospect of purchasing all new hardware infrastructure, Anderson took a more strategic step and tapped [11:11]’s enterprise cloud to host its entire production environment. Piab had been using an incumbent software solution for disaster recovery, but it no longer met the IT team’s requirements and did not inspire confidence. For one thing, it required a lot of resources—several gigabytes per server—from the environment. The bigger concern was that Anderson and his team weren’t sure that it would meet their recovery time objectives, and they weren’t easily able to run tests to see how it would perform in a real disaster.

Piab is a global organization based in Täby, Sweden, with subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 countries. Established in 1951, the company is a leader in industrial automation, specializing in the creation of cutting-edge vacuum solutions that improve the efficiency and working environments for many of the world’s largest manufacturers. Piab's innovative industrial automation solutions transform factories by improving energy efficiency and productivity. The company's IT team mirrors the company’s innovative culture of driving business and getting ahead of issues by strategically adopting technologies and optimizing processes. Business is booming, and the team refuses to waste resources on procuring and managing additional hardware infrastructure.