BPTP Limited, an Indian real estate company, has adopted converged infrastructure to streamline its IT infrastructure and improve the overall home buying experience for its customers. As urban centers around the country have ballooned, so too has the company’s storage, processing and overall IT infrastructure. Sustaining and building upon this growth required it to find a better performing computing and storage solution that would enable a virtualized environment and at the same time help address the growing complexities posed by such a virtualized infrastructure.
To meet these challenges, BPTP selected IBM PureSystems for all of its processing and storage requirements. The company replaced its existing infrastructure and created a virtualized solution around its existing SAP environment.
“Our vision for future growth based on an unparalleled home buying experience for our customer, meant that we needed to deploy an IT infrastructure that fundamentally changes the experience and economics of the way we manage our IT,” said Sandeep Bedi, Director of Systems & Strategy, BPTP.
Added Vilakshan Jakhu, Senior Vice President and CIO, BPTP, “We chose IBM PureSystems because it seamlessly brings together all aspects of a traditional IT infrastructure – server, storage and networking components – ready to be managed on the cloud. Most importantly, the Flex Systems Manager ensures a centralized management of the entire IT infrastructure including the network, compute and storage layers.”
As part of the solution, IBM will deploy three PureFlex Systems, integrated with up to 240 compute nodes, and three Storwize V7000 System Storage nodes, all of which will help BPTP meet its performance and capacity requirements, as well as provide integrated management of servers, networking, storage and virtualization. The PureFlex Systems also feature open standards based networking switches (IEEE 802.11 b/g, Edge Virtual Bridging) and options for using VMware and KVM-based virtualization.
BPTP chose to finance the PureSystems solution with IBM Global Financing.