IBM helps HFCL go Green and reduce TCO

BANGALORE, INDIA: The HFCL Group, a leading player in the telecom sector in India, has selected IBM to integrate and implement innovative blade server technology to help reduce TCO and “Go Green” while increasing efficiency. This three-year agreement with IBM’s Systems and Technology Group includes the deployment of IBM BladeCentre technology and X3650 servers providing significant savings on power and cooling, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO), and increasing productivity making IBM’s infrastructure technology the right choice for HFCL to go green.

IBM brings years of global telecommunications expertise and experience to pull together a customized integrated product-suite on a single technology platform to help HFCL implement industry best practices with the experience of IBM’s telecommunications specialists.

HFCL needed a robust system to support its ERP, CRM, Billing, Mail and IPTV application infrastructure especially with their recent investment in an IPTV project - “Smart Digvision”. IBM came together with HFCL’s IT and commercial teams to demonstrate how IBM BladeCenter technology can help reduce costs while being energy efficient. IBM BladeCenter technology uses up to 50 percent less floor space and up to 35 percent less energy than competitor rack servers without compromising performance.

“Globally and in India, IBM is the leading solutions provider to the telecommunications industry. We believe our expertise in this segment and breadth of products and services will help companies such as HFCL tackle the explosive Indian and global telecom market with the assurance that they have IBM at their side as they grow into the future,” said Mukul Mathur, Director – Systems & Technology Group – IBM India/South Asia.

After evaluating its current infrastructure from competition, HFCL chose IBM to provide a reliable hardware solution to deliver investment protection and better TCO.

“HFCL’s ambitious plans and its rapid expansion in the National scenario demands a robust, homogeneous and constrained data centre environment with long-term business critical applications. We wanted to partner with the best technology advisor in the industry in order to leverage their expertise, especially in the telecom sector. After re-evaluating our current infrastructure, we found IBM to be the best choice offering end-to-end solutions that addressed our IT needs fully,” said G D Singh, COO HFCL Infotel Limited.