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IBM to offer technology solutions to Gulf Oil

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BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM on Monday said that Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd. has selected IBM servers and storage technology to allow their Lubricants division to manage, track, and leverage information and processes.

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The company has selected IBM Power 7 and System x servers and System Storage products for ease of management, cost-effectiveness and price-performance ratio, said a press release.

The large number of internal business processes and expanding operations of Gulf Oil, a part of Hinduja Group, led to the requirement of an ERP application to provide real-time information analysis for business management.

The IBM solution stack for the SAP ERP system was implemented across all of the offices of Gulf Oil Corporation’s Lubricants division in India. It includes IBM Power 770 and System x servers mounted on the IBM BladeCenter H Chassis with IBM System Storage DS5020 Express and TS3200 Tape Library Express.

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The scalability of the servers will help the company manage its growth in the future and the storage devices will be used for backup of critical ERP data.

“We chose to buy the IBM hardware stack because of the unified approach they presented to us to solve our business need. The implementation of the SAP ERP system on IBM systems and storage ensures high performance of the business application, while reducing our energy footprint and increasing return on investment,” said Manish Gangwal, head finance, Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd.

“Companies rely on an efficient IT infrastructure to support business-critical applications and we believe that our systems implementation will help Gulf Oil realize their vision of being one of the top positioned players in Lubricants segment,” said Vivek Mehta, VP, General Business, West Region, IBM India/South Asia.