Patni joins virtualization galaxy

BANGALORE, INDIA: VMware, Inc., a player in the space of virtualization platforms has announced that Patni Computer Systems in India has deployed VMware virtualization platform to arrest rising IT management costs resulting from supporting strong business growth worldwide. At the same time, Patni has effectively enhanced its application availability and performance.

Patni selected VMware ESX to virtualize its server infrastructure and replace the physical servers at the company’s datacenters. VMware virtualization has provided Patni with centralized control to ease server management. The initiative has enabled Patni to achieve benefits including high availability, reduced infrastructure downtime, and faster backup and restoration times. It also allowed the company to migrate easily from a 32-bit to a 64-bit environment.

Satish Joshi, Executive Vice President and Global Technology Head, Patni Computer Systems said, “VMware’s virtualization solution helped us to significant lower our IT costs and maximize the utilization of installed hardware, while improving our scalability, flexibility and  superior performance. As we continue to grow and expand our business, a virtualized environment delivers the economies of scale and centralized management capabilities required to achieve maximum cost savings.”

Patni opted for VMware Infrastructure 3, featuring VMware ESX 3.5, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware VMotion, VMware High Availability and VMware vCenter Server. With VMware Infrastructure in action, Patni has achieved a server consolidation ratio of 12:1.  It has further reduced datacenter power consumption by 30 per cent, rack space by 30 per cent, server provisioning time from half a day to 30 minutes, besides ensuring zero downtime during physical machine upgrades. The company has also centralized server administration and has enabled the intranet application to handle 2,000 concurrent users. The company’s IT infrastructure now comprises 250 virtual machines on 50 host servers. Eighty percent of Patni’s virtual machines are running production applications and 90 percent of its internal applications are deployed on these machines.