Viraj Profiles deploys IBM’s smarter computing solution

BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM announced that Viraj Profiles, a stainless steel long products manufacturer from Maharashtra, has implemented IBM's smarter computing solutions.

Viraj Profiles has over seven manufacturing facilities across Maharashtra with annual capacity of 3,48,000 tonnes. To keep up with its growth while integrating its branches and their internal businesses, Viraj needed a robust and scalable IT infrastructure. ''

"Our clients recognize that in today's business environment, technology can provide a valuable competitive edge and help them to differentiate, said Jyothi Satyanathan, Director Midmarket and Inside Sales, IBM India/South Asia. "We believe that this IBM Smarter Computing solution will help Viraj Profiles fully leverage the potential of its ERP system, reach its business goals today and pave the way for its success in the future."

Viraj Profiles sought IBM's help in deploying the latter's Power System while migrating from Fujitsu x86 to unix on the AIX platform. The IBM Power7 System uses P700 and P710 servers along with Storwize V7000 storage to give a complete solution to businesses to manage their workload.

"With the goal to raise stainless steel capacity in the coming years, we needed to run our SAP ERP system on an IT infrastructure we could rely on. Our previous solution gave us problems with several systems - order booking, resource planning, sales and stocks monitoring, product launches." said V J Rao, president & CIO, Viraj Profiles Limited. "By migrating to IBM AIX on IBM Power systems, and using IBM Storage, we expect to decrease total cost of ownership for our ERP applications by 10-15 percent"