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In order to increase computational capacity, Volvo IT has successfully installed new servers for the Volvo Group at several locations.

Next stop for the Volvo Ocean Race is in Sanya, China. Read the short report from Frank Wang, our chinese IT-team member, that just arrived to the port.

Volvo IT is expanding in China and a national competition among IT students helped attract top-talent university students. Three of them will now join the mission as Volvo IT crew members at the next Volvo Ocean race stop in Sanya, China. They will soon show if they have what it takes to work with IT at the extreme.

In order to create an attractive workplace, the Volvo IT solution units (SU) have been working on improving and clarifying the career paths of their business consultants.

With careful planning, good communication and solid teamwork, the project of upgrading the Oracle database for the AT Server application was a success.

Olle Högblom, 50, has been appointed President of Volvo IT. Olle Högblom is currently Senior Vice President Infrastructure & Operations at Volvo IT in Gothenburg, Sweden. The appointment is effective immediately.

Congratulations to Volvo IT’s, Trenda Johnson, who has won the Volvo Ocean Race Facebook challenge from the Volvo IT crew in Abu Dhabi.

More than 660,000 visitors gave their opinions of the websites they visited. Volvo IT’s global website emerged as the best website of the year in its category. A happy Andrea Olsson, web master at Volvo IT, was presented with the award at a ceremony in Stockholm yesterday.

Today, the Volvo IT crew at the Volvo Ocean Race has issued a new challenge on Facebook. You have from January 12th – 16th to submit your ideas to help solve their challenge.

Volvo Trucks’ newly launched Dealer Locator smart phone app makes it easy for customers to find information about their nearest dealer or service workshop. The app is being constantly updated to incorporate Volvo Trucks’ entire global service network, which consists of more than 2,300 dealers and workshops.