Religare joins hands with HP

NEW DELHI, INDIA: HP announced that Religare, a diversified financial services group, has selected HP blade server technology to support business growth and mitigate risk.  

Over the last four years, Religare's client base has increased from 20,000 to 700,000 in over 1,800 locations. The firm also boosted its global reach from a pan-Indian company to operations in the UK, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Dubai and Singapore. At the same time Religare expanded its portfolio in new areas like life insurance, asset management and technology sectors. A consequence of this growth has been server sprawl and increased the risk of downtime with critical applications residing on multiple server platforms.

To improve server utilization and minimize risk, Religare chose to migrate its mission critical applications and database to HP ProLiant BL460c servers housed within HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures. This implementation consolidated multiple servers, improving efficiency and providing scalability to support further business growth. Reliability and ease of installation were also key factors in Religare’s decision.

G Nagaraj, director & chief technology officer, Religare Enterprises Limited. “All of Religare's mission critical applications and database now reside on HP Blade servers providing for our future growth.  These servers are scalable, reliable and more manageable.”

Rajesh Dhar, director, Industry Standard Servers, HP India, said: “Organizations who are looking to expand their operations commonly face challenges such as server sprawl and its associated risk  For Religare, HP Blade servers are delivering reliability, ease of management and the ability to expand with the business. With superior energy efficiency Religare is also lowering lifecycle costs.”