IBM recently announced that Amara Raja Batteries, one of the
leading Indian manufacturers of lead acid storage batteries has
selected the company’s hardware platform to support its SAP
implementation. The manufacturer has chosen IBM’s System
Power6 570 servers with virtualization, DS 4700 Storage and Tivoli
middleware for their server and storage requirements.
Amara Raja Batteries required a cost effective yet highly available
solution at both the server and storage levels to run its SAP
application. Amara Raja Batteries was looking to deploy the SAP
environment in a consolidated footprint wherein the company will
use virtualization to define flexible server environments for
different modules including testing and development.
The combination of higher performance per core and larger I/O and
memory capacity and bandwidth per core of P570 servers will help
the battery manufacturer to achieve reduction in the number of
servers or the number of cores per server. The deployment thus
promises reduction in cost of server acquisition and total cost of
ownership for the company’s IT environment.
“We are committed to give our customers the benefits of newer
technologies, without losing focus on our core business. 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
Jayakumar C, IT - Head, Amara Raja Batteries
The ability to move about resources based on business needs
dynamically, would give Amara Raja Batteries the benefits of
greater Return on Investment and utilization. Adopting the platform
will also allow the company to improve its operational
efficiency.
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