Reduces infrastructure overheads, cuts power and cooling costs, and eases pressure on IT staff managing geographically dispersed servers
India, Mumbai, September 23, 2009– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that Patni Computer Systems in India has deployed VMware virtualization platform to arrest rising IT management costs resulting from supporting strong business growth worldwide. At the same time, Patni has effectively enhanced its application availability and performance.
Patni selected VMware ESX to virtualize its server infrastructure and replace the physical servers at the company’s datacenters. VMware virtualization has provided Patni with centralized control to ease server management. The initiative has enabled Patni to achieve benefits including high availability, reduced infrastructure downtime, and faster backup and restoration times. It also allowed the company to migrate easily from a 32-bit to a 64-bit environment.
Satish Joshi, Executive Vice President and Global Technology Head, Patni Computer Systems said, “VMware’s virtualization solution helped us to significantly lower our IT costs and maximize the utilization of installed hardware, while improving our scalability, flexibility and superior performance. As we continue to grow and expand our business, a virtualized environment delivers the economies of scale and centralised management capabilities required to achieve maximum cost savings.”
Patni opted for VMware Infrastructure 3, featuring VMware ESX 3.5, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware VMotion, VMware High Availability and VMware vCenter Server. With VMware Infrastructure in action, Patni has achieved a server consolidation ratio of 12:1. It has further reduced datacenter power consumption by 30%, rack space by 30%, server provisioning time from half a day to 30 minutes, besides ensuring zero downtime during physical machine upgrades. The company has also centralized server administration and has enabled the intranet application to handle 2,000 concurrent users. The company’s IT infrastructure now comprises 250 virtual machines on 50 host servers. Eighty percent of Patni’s virtual machines are running production applications and 90 percent of its internal applications are deployed on these machines.
T. Srinivasan, Managing Director, VMware India & SAARC, said, “At VMware, we are driven to help our customers address a fundamental need - to do more with less. VMware is equipping businesses across verticals with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources. As the leader in virtualization solutions, we are proud to help fast growing businesses like Patni save time and money, while lowering IT resource and realty costs.”
VMware’s customers in India include Atrenta India, Bajaj Auto, BPCL, Chitale Dairy, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation, Essel Propack, Future Businesstech, Helix Financials, i2 Technologies, Macawber Beekay, Mahindra & Mahindra, Persistent Systems, Reliance General Insurance and Religare among others.
About VMware
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About Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
Patni Computer Systems (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT Services and business solutions, servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni services its clients through its industry-focused practices, including banking, financial services (BFS) and insurance (I); manufacturing, retail and distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and utilities (CMU), and its technology-focused practices.
With an employee strength of around 13,800; multiple global delivery centers spread across 12 cities worldwide; 27 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues of US$ 719 million for the year 2008.
Patni’s service offerings include application development and maintenance, enterprise application solutions, business and technology consulting, product engineering services, infrastructure management services, customer interaction services & business process outsourcing, quality assurance and engineering services.
Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its clients’ businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMI Level 5 (V 1.2) organization, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks.
Patni leverages its vast experience spanning three decades; deep domain expertise; full-spectrum services; and suites of IP-led solutions, methodologies and frameworks; in being an effective business transformation partner to its clients. For more information on Patni, visit http://www.patni.com/.
Safe Harbor:
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.