IBM has signed a $3.1m IT infrastructure services agreement with Religare Enterprises, an integrated financial services group in India.
Under the agreement, IBM will deploy three energy-efficient and green scalable modular data centers. IBM will be designing, building and maintaining highly scalable, modular and energy-efficient green data centers in Delhi, Noida and Mumbai for Religare Enterprises (REL).
In addition, IBM is expected to put in place the networking infrastructure and a disaster recovery system for the financial services group. The system implemented by IBM is expected to help REL reduce annual power costs by 30% to 35% and enable it to effectively meet technology requirements of the company’s expanding business.
Shachindra Nath, group COO at Religare Enterprises, said: Religare is a financial services powerhouse and we have ambitious growth plans. We are confident that our partnership with IBM will provide us with a distinct competitive edge in the market.
Nipun Mehrotra, vice president and general manager of global technology services for India and South Asia at IBM, said: Religare’s choice of IBM as its preferred IT infrastructure services partner re-affirms our undisputed leadership in the green data center space and commitment to help clients do more with less. IBM’s consultative approach helped Religare with the process of design finalization & product selection, and ensured the final solution was miles ahead of those offered by the other large competitors in India.
