ESDS selects IBM PureSystems over HP and DELL for Cloud and Big Data Offerings

Key Facts

  • There is a growing opportunity in the IT managed & networking services space with the data center co-location and hosting market estimated to double by 2016.
  • In a move to better handle the unpredicted growth of banking cloud offerings, mobile text and voice messaging apps through both private and hybrid models, ESDS, an IT infrastructure services and solutions provider in India implemented an IBM PureSystems solution, ensuring their IT infrastructure could rapidly expand and seamlessly integrate with their existing solutions.
  • ESDS selected IBM PureSystems over HP and DELL.

Business Benefits

  • IBM PureSystems offers a scale-in system design, cloud ready architecture, longer life cycle and easy scalability during a force majeure situations.
  • With the addition of Flex Systems Manager (FSM) ESDS can now control their entire IT infrastructure including compute, storage, network and other capabilities, from a single window pane. This has simplified their overall management capabilities and cut down infrastructure costs.
  • ESDS has implemented an end-to-end solution from a single vendor, avoiding integration issues that can result from using multiple vendor products in a datacenter environment.

Why IBM?

"We selected IBM's Smarter Computing approach and PureSystems as it was the best platform to meet our business needs,” said Piyush Somani, CEO/MD, ESDS. “The combination of IBM’s technical expertise and focus on driving innovation with advanced technologies will enable us to grow our business. Additionally, IBM PureFlex offers a compelling value proposition designed to scale on-demand, depending on our business needs. Life cycle of the product we were considering was another important criteria for us. PureFlex was our only option to have a scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure which can last for next 10 years.”

About the Client

ESDS began operations in 2005 and quickly established itself as one of the leading hosting companies in India. It has over 33,000 clients worldwide, many of whom are dependent on their Internet presence. ESDS has indigenously developed the concept of a high specification, carrier-neutral and fully managed Data Center in the state of Maharashtra. It consists of a group of hosting companies based in India, United Kingdom and the United States.

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