Virtualization is being adopted by many organizations to reduce the costs of
IT infrastructure and for optimum usage of servers. Essel Propack Ltd, part of
the Essel Group, has used it to good effect. The company is the largest
specialty packaging manufacturer for laminated and seamless or extruded plastic
tubes, and medical devices. The primary requirement for the company's Mumbai
team is to have a centralized mailing solution along with a common directory and
address book for efficient messaging solutions. Alongwith that they also need
SharePoint Server, OCS Server, Symantec Mail archiving servers, etc which would
require 22 physical blade servers. But using virtualization the hardware
requirement reduced to only 5 blade servers and along with it the IT
infrastructure management costs reduced as well.
Some of the issues before deployment were: whether the software vendors will
provide support if a software was deployed in a virtualized environment, how
easy will be the management as compared to physical servers?, will there be any
difference in performance?, etc. In addition, Essel Propack faced the dilemma of
not being able to buy hardware components as they could not bill their
subsidiaries (at foreign locations) directly due to transfer pricing problems.
So they wanted the complete solution to be provided as 'Solution as a Service'.
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Their implementation partner deployed the complete solution and then charged
Essel Propack on a per use basis. The company directly benefited from the
solution in the form of reduction in capital expenses, annual expenses reduced
by 30% due to low cost data center hosting, less rack space, reduced power
consumption and reduced cost of manpower for administration.