IBM and Sonic Biochem Extractions announced a ten year
contract for Managed Hosting and Monitoring Services of Data Center equipment
in IBM Bangalore to ensure all-time availability of critical business
applications.
This deal provides a significant cost saving to the tune of
approximately 20 percent in the first year itself and increasing subsequently
in terms of DC infrastructure management and monitoring to Sonic besides
assured service levels and support from IBM.
Sonic Biochem Extractions, part of Matlani Group India,
develops and manufactures ingredients for the healthcare industry. The group
has made impressive progress in the field of new generation soya products
having manufactured few products for the first time in India. To
support it’s growing business, Sonic Biochem needed a reliable facility to host
their IT infrastructure running SAP ERP and other business applications hence
choose IBM datacenter in Bangalore
as most suitable to their needs.
Sonic has signed a 10-year contract for
outsourcing of entire IT infrastructure including servers, storage, network
equipment and security solutions to.IBM Datacentre. This involves IBM renting
the DC space, providing Monitoring services and Backup services on opex model.
By associating with IBM, the leader in Managed Hosting
services and Datacentre facilities, we are assured of good, timely, high
quality work and return of investment (ROI) for a long term services contract
as well as high-uptime of IT infrastructure and
availability of all business applications at all times,” said Kamal
Matta, CTO of Sonic Biochem.
The IBM Datacenter in Bangalore
has state of the art design and facilities with built-in redundancy to help
streamline clients operations, reduce complexity and simplify vendor
management, thereby improving availability, reliability, performance, and
end-user satisfaction. By leveraging this, Sonic Biochem would also save their costs
on hiring, training and retention of own IT resources for hosting &
managing on-premise datacenter
IBM recommended the services in line with Sonic’s
requirement to match their growth plans. We will ensure
that all critical applications are available to them 24X7 to perform smooth
business. Their IT stuff can now focus more on leveraging IT to improve
efficiency and profitability of the firm while IBM technical expertise
and process skills will handle their IT end-to-end,” said Jyothi Satyanathan,
vice president, Midmarket and Inside Sales, IBM India/South Asia.
By
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