JRG Securities Limited simplifies its IT infrastructure with IBM hardware and services.

Validated on 01 May 2009

"IBM solutions have helped us to make major headway in improving our infrastructure availability. The outstanding IBM products and services have helped us to provide continuous, reliable service to our customers." - Jomon Joy, assistant vice president-technical, JRG Securities

Customer:
JRG Securities Limited

Industry:
Financial Markets

Deployment country:
India

Solution:
Business-to-Consumer, Business Continuity, Enabling Business Flexibility, Server Consolidation, Small & Medium Business, Transforming IT

As one of the leading brokerage houses in India, JRG Securities Limited provides customers with top-notch financial and insurance brokerage services. The firm caters to the diverse needs of more than 200,000 customers, including individuals, institutions and money managers.

Business need:
Saddled with 15 stand-alone servers, JRG's complex data center was becoming unnecessarily difficult and time-consuming to manage. In addition, JRG lacked a centralized storage solution and instead maintained a sprawling environment of disparate disk systems. Moving forward, the firm wanted to simplify its infrastructure, but without sacrificing high availability and supreme performance levels.

Solution:
To regain control of its IT environment, JRG Securities teamed up with IBM Global Technology Services. The IBM group implemented four IBM BladeCenter® HS20 servers in a BladeCenter chassis and launched a fleet of high-performance System x™ servers. Additionally, Global Technology Services created a centralized storage environment by deploying an IBM System Storage™ DS4300 disk system, which attaches to the servers via an IBM TotalStorage® SAN Switch.

Benefits:
• Can help simplify the client’s computing environment without sacrificing performance or availability • Helps improve response time to customers • Helps firm provide a highly reliable service to its customers

IBM products and services that were used in this case study.

Hardware:
BladeCenter, BladeCenter H Chassis, BladeCenter HS20, Storage: DS4300 (FAStT600), Storage: IBM SAN Switches, Storage: Tape & Optical Storage, System x

Service:
GTS ITS Server: Server Product Services for System x, GTS ITS Storage & Data: Storage & Data Product

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