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IBM unveils Dynamic Infrastructure Lab in Pune

IBM has unveiled an indigenous Dynamic Infrastructure Lab in Pune set up using the skill-base from its Indian workforce. The lab, located at the IBM Software Lab in Pune, showcases state-of-the-art technologies to address clients’ business challenges and brings more intelligence, automation, integration, and efficiencies to the digital and physical worlds. It will enable businesses and governments to better respond to and manage challenges presented by today’s globally integrated planet.

The lab aims to help organizations deliver the visibility, control and automation needed to address quality service, manage risk and compliance besides maximizing return on investments, and accelerate business growth.

Dr. Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Vice President, IBM India Software Lab, said “It’s time to start thinking differently about infrastructure. In this smarter world, we need our assets to propel us forward, not hold us back. A dynamic infrastructure transforms physical and digital assets into higher valued services. It is highly optimized to achieve greater results with improved service management, and leverages new technologies and strategies to reduce costs, manage risk and deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. With the launch of this lab, we are today in a position to showcase some of our own best practices with our clients in India/South Asia region”.

IBM Software Labs in India supports a heterogeneous environment and hence is quite similar to a typical growing organization’s IT infrastructure. Using energy monitoring systems along with advanced Virtualization and automated management, IBM is looking to increase operational efficiency by over 20% and in turn increase its green footprint.

“In today’s challenging business environments, customers see the value that IBM brings to the table. The Dynamic Infrastructure Lab will help clients reuse existing capital and increase optimization of their assets by better monitoring their infrastructure and increase operational efficiency,” said Rekha D Garapati, Director, IBM India Software Labs.

Global connectivity is driving increasingly complex supply chains, ultra-empowered consumers, and making issues such as governance and compliance, managing risk, and fending off security threats increasingly difficult and complex. With a third of the world’s population on the Internet by 2011 and the staggering amount of data and intelligence being driven by the rapid proliferation of smart sensors, RFID tags, and intelligence being built into everything from pets to power grids, the world’s infrastructure is at a breaking point.

IBM has a broad set of offerings for servers, storage, networking, software and services that help clients with their implementation of a dynamic infrastructure.

Business Partner Enablement

Given the significance of India in the global software development ecosystem and the huge local community of software developers, the lab has built a robust support structure to provide technical support, education, training, migration and design assistance to our Business Partners, System Integrators and Independent Software Vendors. Last year, the team successfully supported over a thousand engagements, and trained over 1,200 Partner consultants in the Asia-Pacific region.