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With a view to build a dynamic IT infrastructure, Religare Enterprises Limited has selected IBM’s unique Storage Virtualisation solution (SAN Volume Controller 5.1) and DS5000 disk solution. The combined solution will help Religare overcome an existing performance monitoring issue while providing a platform to virtualise their existing heterogeneous environment and a roadmap to achieve better TCO and higher ROI. The solution will enhance their storage utilisation by as much as 30%.
Religare decided to consolidate their current IT infrastructure system to build a Nearline/Disaster Recovery setup. They chose to consolidate and virtualise their heterogeneous storage set-up along with defining a future roadmap to build a dynamic IT infrastructure. Religare also needed a smooth integration of existing storage systems to a new SAN wide virtualised infrastructure with minimum downtime and flexibility.
IBM’s Storage Virtualisation Solution will help virtualise the disk pool from multiple storage subsystems into a reservoir of capacity that can be managed more efficiently, improving storage utilisation and administration and enhancing performance to meet future growth. The solution will also ensure seamless data migration between subsystems while automating the storage usage by ‘On Demand’ provisioning. Moreover, the proposed solution will further compliment the BCP (Business Continuity Plan) more efficiently and effectively giving higher confidence to Religare.
“A Dynamic Infrastructure is a necessity in today’s competitive scenario and we believe that we have started our journey towards this with this investment. Cost reduction in time of recession is not just about containing operational cost and complexity, but achieving breakthrough productivity gains through virtualisation, optimisation, energy stewardship and flexible sourcing. We wanted to partner with the best technology advisor in the industry in order to leverage their expertise to lay the way for our future growth, while streamlining our operational costs,” said Saurabh Srivastava, Sr. Vice President (IT), Religare Enterprises.
“In challenging times like these, building a more dynamic infrastructure via virtualisation and consolidation is not just about operational efficiency, but a financial and competitive necessity. Religare recognised and realised that they needed to build a robust infrastructure to address their current and future expansion plans attaining higher TCO & ROI. Religare’s choice of IBM as its preferred IT infrastructure partner re-affirms our undisputed leadership in the storage in India and our commitment to help clients do more with less,” said Sandeep K Dutta, VP – Storage, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India and South Asia.