Century Plyboards zeroes down on IBM to consolidate its disaster recovery center

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Plyboards along
with its group company Star Cements, has selected href="http://www.dqweek.com/IBM-launches-4-new-CoEs-in-Rajasthan">IBM's
P6-550
server, DS 5020 storage, and virtualization technology to consolidate
its disaster recovery (DR) center. Century is already using IBM's
P5550 server and IBM's DS-4700 storage as a backbone for their ERP
infrastructure. Century implemented SAP and post that, they were
looking for a redundancy-proof datacenter, which can be used to
consolidate its disaster recovery center along with the primary site
of Star Cement group.

The implementation will
help them save cost and get a RoI of 35 to 40 percent annually. IBM
secured the deal after demonstrating the value proposition on RoI,
clear strategy, risk management capabilities and technical
capabilities. “The solution from IBM will help us build a
redundancy-proof datacenter for our organization and Star Cement in
turn consolidating infrastructure of both the companies. This will
strengthen our long-term association with IBM as the preferred
technology partner,” said Deepak Sengupta, Senior Manager-SAP,
Century Plyboards.

“Our state-of-the-art
technology will help Century Plyboards and Star Cement to save their
data efficiently at the time of disaster. IBM's server, storage and
virtualization technology will support the consolidated disaster
recovery center for both the companies ensuring no downtime in view
of crisis,” said Ajay Mittal, VP-General Business, Systems and
Technology Group, IBM India and SA.