Viraj Profiles Selects IBM's Smarter Computing To Enhance IT Infra

IBM has announced Viraj Profiles Ltd., a stainless steel long products manufacturer from Maharashtra, India, has implemented IBM’s Smarter Computing solutions to improve their overall IT efficiency.
Viraj Profiles Ltd. has over seven manufacturing facilities across Maharashtra with annual capacity of 348,000 tonnes. To keep up with its growth while integrating its branches and their internal businesses, Viraj needed a robust and scalable IT infrastructure. Viraj had previously deployed Fujitsu x86 servers, which was hampering their performance subsequent to the growth and increase in number of users on their Disaster Recovery site.

Viraj Profiles Ltd. turned to IBM to help them deploy IBM Power System while migrating from Fujitsu x86 to UNIX on the AIX platform. The IBM Power7 System uses P700 and P710 servers along with Storwize V7000 storage to give a complete solution to businesses to manage their workload and create a robust environment to run their business. The integrated combination of the POWER architecture and PowerVM makes possible far higher consolidation ratios and virtualisation solutions. IBM is also providing training on the AIX platform that will help Viraj implement the solution faster.

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IBM is working with many SMEs who are struggling to adopt smarter computing solutions due to lack of in-house skills and expertise to design and maintain hardware-based systems. IBM is addressing these issues with new Power Systems solutions that don’t require specialised skills and offer the latest technologies in virtualisation and automation to speed private and hybrid cloud creation.

“With the goal to raise stainless steel capacity in the coming years, we needed to run our SAP ERP system on an IT infrastructure we could rely on. Our previous solution gave us problems with several systems - order booking, resource planning, sales and stocks monitoring, product launches.” said V J Rao, President & CIO, Viraj Profiles Limited. “By migrating to IBM AIX on IBM Power systems, and using IBM Storage, we expect to decrease total cost of ownership for our ERP applications by 10-15 percent.”

“Our clients recognise that in today’s business environment, technology can provide a valuable competitive edge and help them to differentiate, said Jyothi Satyanathan, Director Midmarket and Inside Sales, IBM India/South Asia. “We believe that this IBM Smarter Computing solution will help Viraj Profiles fully leverage the potential of its ERP system, reach its business goals today and pave the way for its success in the future.”