Orbis Financial is India’s only privately-owned and
professionally managed SEBI registered Custodian. As a start-up,
the company wanted to implement an IT infrastructure that delivers
high reliability, performance, flexibility, scalability and most
importantly an alignment with the business model. They needed a
strong IT backbone to support business applications such as
business intelligence, ERP, DMS, BPM and backoffice settlement.
Starting with two offices, HO and operations back-office in Gurgaon
and the Marketing office in Mumbai, the company decided to
implement its data center in Gurgaon and the DR center in Mumbai.
After a comprehensive review of the IT requirements, the company
realized it required at least 30 servers initially at their primary
site to support application requirements. Also it had to make
provision for future requirements for up to five years.
Virtualization was the natural choice and the company decided to
build its entire IT infrastructure based on this technology. It
also adopted technologies such as blade servers, unified storage,
Next-Generation Environmental Control System, VDI with thin
clients.
With virtualization the company has saved USD 50,000 on physical
hardware costs, USD 13,000 per annum on power and cooling and USD
15,000 per annum on maintenance and support.
Note: Orbis Financial is an EDGE winner. The complete
list of EDGE winners is published in the October 2010 Print issue
of InformationWeek India
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