VSNL selects CA's Unicenter eBusiness solution

NEW DELHI: Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) has announced that

VSNL has implemented Unicenter, CA's family of award-winning eBusiness

infrastructure management solutions, to monitor and control its increasingly

complex nationwide IT environment, ensuring the stability, availability and

performance of its critical business applications and IT infrastructure.

VSNL is the sole provider of international telephony for India. It operates a

large, sophisticated network of earth stations, switches, underwater cable

systems, and service nodes to provide a wide range of basic and value-added

communications services. With its main gateway centers located at Mumbai, New

Delhi, Calcutta and Chennai, VSNL operates 29 offices across India. The

company's IT infrastructure includes 1500 desktops and IBM, Compaq and HP

servers connected via routers attached to 64 kbps leased lines.

The 24x7 availability of its IT infrastructure became a critical

consideration as VSNL migrated to automated billing and settlement systems,

which made the company even more dependent on the proper functioning of its

network, systems and database infrastructure. VSNL also needed to improve the

efficiency of its IT operations in order to ensure profitable growth.

Unicenter enables VSNL to closely monitor its critical enterprise-wide

systems, applications and network infrastructure from a unified console, making

it easy for technicians to quickly detect and resolve potential problems before

they affect end-users of this infrastructure. Unicenter's remote management

capabilities also allow VSNL to significantly reduce support costs, even as

service levels and reliability are being enhanced.

Binimoy Chakma, General Manager, VSNL said, "With the implementation of

Unicenter, we have been able to significantly reduce the strain on our IT staff

and eliminate the need to train them on different platforms. This implementation

has proven that a holistic solution to enterprise management brings about a

great efficiency in operations."