 "Sonic Biochem Selects IBM For Managed Hosting Services")
IBM and Sonic Biochem Extractions Limited announced a ten year contract for Managed Hosting & Monitoring Services of datacentre equipment in IBM Bangalore to ensure all-time availability of critical business applications.
This deal provides a significant cost saving to the tune of approximately 20% in the first year itself and increasing subsequently in terms of DC infrastructure management and monitoring to Sonic besides assured service levels & support from IBM.
Sonic Biochem Extractions Ltd., part of Matlani Group India, develops and manufactures ingredients for the healthcare industry. The group has made impressive progress in the field of new generation soya products having manufactured few products for the first time in India. To support it’s growing business, Sonic Biochem needed a reliable facility to host their IT infrastructure running SAP ERP and other business applications hence choose IBM datacentre in Bangalore as most suitable to their needs.
Sonic has signed a 10-year contract for outsourcing of entire IT infrastructure including servers, storage, network equipment and security solutions to IBM Datacentre. This involves IBM renting the DC space, providing Monitoring services and Backup services on opex model.
“By associating with IBM, the leader in Managed Hosting services and Datacentre facilities, we are assured of good, timely, high quality work and return of investment (ROI) for a long term services contract as well as high-uptime of IT infrastructure and availability of all business applications at all times,” said Kamal Matta, CTO, Sonic Biochem.
The IBM Datacentre in Bangalore has state of the art design and facilities with built-in redundancy to help streamline clients operations, reduce complexity and simplify vendor management, thereby improving availability, reliability, performance, and end-user satisfaction. By leveraging this, Sonic Biochem would also save their costs on hiring, training and retention of own IT resources for hosting & managing on-premise datacentre.
IBM recommended the services in line with Sonic’s requirement to match their growth plans. We will ensure that all critical applications are available to them 24X7 to perform smooth business. Their IT stuff can now focus more on leveraging IT to improve efficiency and profitability of the firm while IBM technical expertise and process skills will handle their IT end-to-end," said Jyothi Satyanathan, Vice President, Midmarket and Inside Sales, IBM India/South Asia.