Proact has long been a leading European datacenter and cloud services provider. To expand its hybrid cloud solutions, Proact offers Microsoft Azure infrastructure-as-a-service offerings paired with NetApp-based storage solutions that run in customer or hosting provider datacenters. It uses Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to connect Azure and local datacenters. Hybrid cloud solutions help Proact satisfy European data-residency policies, provide customers with pay-as-you-go scalability and expand its business, help meet European customer requirements for in-country data storage, for legal, security, performance and data mobility reasons, while giving customers access to highly scalable, cost-effective public cloud compute resources.