Patni Computer Systems Deploys VMware Infrastructure

Patni Computer Systems has deployed the VMware virtualisation platform to arrest rising IT management costs resulting from supporting strong business growth worldwide. At the same time, Patni has effectively enhanced its application availability and performance.

Patni selected VMware ESX to virtualise its server infrastructure and replace the physical servers at the company’s data centres. VMware virtualisation has provided Patni with centralised control to ease server management. The initiative has enabled Patni to achieve benefits including high availability, reduced infrastructure downtime, and faster back-up and restoration times. It has also allowed the company to migrate easily from a 32-bit to a 64-bit environment.

Satish Joshi, executive vice president and global technology head, Patni Computer Systems, said, “VMware’s virtualisation solution has helped us to significantly lower our IT costs and maximise the utilisation of installed hardware, while improving our scalability, flexibility and performance. As we continue to grow and expand our business, a virtualised environment delivers the economies of scale and centralised management capabilities required to achieve maximum cost savings.”

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Patni opted for VMware Infrastructure 3, featuring VMware ESX 3.5, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware VMotion, VMware High Availability and VMware vCenter Server. With VMware Infrastructure in action, Patni has achieved a server consolidation ratio of 12:1. It has further reduced data centre power consumption by 30 percent, rack space by 30 percent, server provisioning time from half-a-day to 30 minutes, besides ensuring zero downtime during physical machine upgrades.

The company has also centralised server administration and has enabled the Intranet application to handle 2,000 concurrent users. The company’s IT infrastructure now comprises 250 virtual machines on 50 host servers. Eighty percent of Patni’s virtual machines are running production applications and 90 percent of its internal applications are deployed on these machines.