HFCL, IBM partners for to reduce total cost of ownership

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 19 February 2009, 01:12 IST
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Bangalore: With a motive to step up its green initiatives, Himachal Futuristic Communication (HFCL), a telecom company in India, has partnered with IBM to integrate its blade server technology. The three-year agreement with IBM's Systems and Technology Group includes the deployment of IBM BladeCentre technology and X3650 servers to lower total cost of ownership (TCO). "HFCL's ambitious plans and its rapid expansion in the National scenario demands a robust, homogeneous and constrained data centre environment with long-term business critical applications. We wanted to partner with the best technology advisor in the industry in order to leverage their expertise, especially in the telecom sector," said G D Singh, Chief Operating Officer HFCL Infotel. The move is backed by the fact that HFCL needed a system to support its ERP, CRM, Billing, Mail and IPTV application infrastructure especially with their recent investment in an IPTV project 'Smart Digvision'. After evaluating its current infrastructure from competition, HFCL chose IBM to provide a hardware solution to deliver investment protection and better TCO. The Indian telecom equipment industry grew by 24 percent to touch 95,407 crore in 2007-08, as per industry estimates. The competition is further intensifying with providers continuously rolling-out new services and making huge investments toward new technologies.