Product Engineering
Infosys wins PCQUEST, InfoWorld 100 and NetApp awards
Infosys won the PCQUEST Best IT Implementation of the Year 2007 award for a project in IT Infrastructure Consolidation. The award received entries from 250 companies, 22 industries and 23 project categories.
The project was also recognized at the 2007 InfoWorld 100 Awards announced by IDG's InfoWorld. The annual awards honor IT projects that demonstrate creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further business goals. Nominations were submitted by InfoWorld readers, technology partners and end-user companies.
The project also won the Innovator of the Year award at the NetApp Innovation Awards 2006.
With the IT industry growing at around 25%, there is tremendous pressure on the IT resources of major IT software service providers. Companies partner with Infosys to provide innovative solutions to consolidate their IT infrastructure. Our client's challenge was two-fold: First, due to increased R&D activity at our client's Overseas Development Center (ODC), there was pressure on the data center's resources. Moreover, given the client's future growth plan, the data center could not support critical activities.
The constraints included zero space availability, end-of-life servers and inefficient backup/ recovery mechanism to provide business continuity. The staff did not have the bandwidth to support user needs due to the wide range of services offered and heterogeneous systems. Procurement of new servers was prohibitively expensive and would impact the feasibility of various activities.
Infosys' solution transformed a cost center into a center of excellence. The solution improved performance by optimizing existing infrastructure and introduced new processes. By leveraging best practices and the latest technologies, we replaced numerous smaller servers with fewer high-capacity machines and direct-attached storage hardware with centralized storage utilizing innovative virtualization techniques and leveraging DNS round robin for load balancing and redundancy. The project also improved performance by optimizing existing infrastructure and introducing new processes to cut the back-up time window from 12 hours to about 10 minutes.
Consequently, the data center's footprint was reduced by 70%. The consolidation of the computing and storage capacity also resulted in an overall annual cost savings of US$ 2 million.
Events
Handsets Forum USA Conference, Nov. 30, 2007: Ram Kumar, Associate Vice President, Product Engineering Practice, Infosys, joins panelists at the mobile TV session
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CommunicAsia 2007, June 21, 2007: Infosys moderates a session on "Monetizing IPTV - Challenges faced by broadband service providers versus content providers".
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