A leading Indian manufacturing company reduces hardware costs by 50
percent with Red Hat virtualization technology for both servers and
desktops
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Uttam Energy Tech, a leading design and
manufacturing company in India, has implemented Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization to build its virtualized infrastructure for both servers
and desktops. Uttam Energy Tech is utilizing both the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 2.2 platform as well as the Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Beta,
with plans to migrate all of its systems to Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.0 upon general availability.
An Uttam Group company, Uttam Energy Tech's state-of-the-art technology
and continuous focus on quality have helped the company develop the
world's leading boilers for a variety of industries. Uttam Energy Tech
strives to create state-of-the-art engineering, drawing designs of its
product, while at the same time, protecting these designs from misuse or
theft. "It was critical for us to restrict access to the centralized
file server where our custom-made designs are kept, preventing our
designers from copying and storing design files locally," said Balram
Adlakha, vice president, business development at Uttam Energy Tech. "In
addition, we wanted to build an IT infrastructure that is secure, easier
to manage with minimal administrative overhead, scalable to accommodate
rapid growth and also cost-effective."
With security, maintainability, scalability, performance and cost in
mind, Uttam Energy Tech's IT team began evaluating various products in
the virtualization space to help resolve its challenges. Red Hat's
partner Taashee Linux Services, a Linux and open source technology
solution provider based in India, managed the implementation. The
company evaluated the latest product offerings from VMware, but the
costs for a combined solution of desktop and server virtualization
became prohibitive, leaving Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the
clear option for the firm. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization just made
sense, as it provides a combined solution for virtualized desktops and
servers, and is 70 percent less expensive than competitors' desktop
virtualization products," said Adlakha.
Taashee Linux Services assisted Uttam Energy Tech in developing
template-based provisioning of Windows and Linux virtual machines to
ease the task of provisioning new servers. With drag-and-drop features,
virtual machines could be migrated live, from one physical host to
another, in a matter of minutes as opposed to weeks in the physical
environment.
"Without additional investment, Uttam Energy Tech will get a proven
fault-tolerant system capable of easily migrating virtual machines when
hardware or system failures occur on the clustered physical servers,"
said Abhishek Datt, CTO, Taashee Linux Services Ltd. "The
hardware-assisted virtualization offered by Red Hat delivered
enterprise-class performance and reliability resulting in a smooth shift
to a virtual environment."
Uttam Energy Tech realized several performance benefits with Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 and more recently ran a proof of concept
with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta to examine the
forthcoming features of the new platform. The organization was highly
impressed by the platform's virtual desktop features, the SPICE
remote-rendering protocol and the ability to run and manage both server
and desktop virtual machines from the same management interface. "These
virtualized desktops are running on the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor, which runs on our Dell servers," said
Adlakha. "So far, our work with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
3.0 Beta has illustrated incredible stability and robustness to handle
the system load. To date, we have experienced near zero downtime of the
systems, significantly improving our productivity."
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also provided Uttam Energy Tech with
lower IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance and
increased scalability and performance. "The business impact of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization is huge," said Adlakha. "We've seen great
results with the 3.0 Beta implementation and intend to upgrade all of
our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization machines to 3.0 upon general
availability."
With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Uttam Energy Tech was also able
to implement a secured and controlled environment for its designers to
work, and the solution has provided almost native performance for its
designers. "This secured environment has been especially critical for
CAD/CAM workloads, as the graphical applications require very high
bandwidth," said Adlakha.
In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has also proven to be
cost-effective for Uttam Energy Tech. "Including our thin-client setup,
we are cutting our hardware costs alone by more than 50 percent," said
Adlakha. The firm also saved greatly on maintenance and administration
costs as the environment is now more secure from virus attacks,
significantly reducing the need for time-consuming rebuilds of its
desktops.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provided Uttam Energy Tech with a
secure and stable virtualization solution at an affordable price with
exceptional performance. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the
SPICE remote-rendering protocol did not just reduce our operational
costs, but more importantly, has made our infrastructure more secure,
stable and high-performing, helping us to build a solid infrastructure
platform for the future," said Adlakha.
To read the full Uttam Energy Tech case study, visit http://www.redhat.com/customersuccess/.
To download a free, fully supported 60-day trial of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.0, visit www.redhat.com/rhev3.
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About Taashee Linux Services Ltd.
Taashee is a 100 percent Linux and open source software (OSS) company.
Taashee uniquely offers a one-stop solution for all Linux and OSS
related projects. We have a dedicated team of certified Linux engineers
and passionate developers to handle any kind of projects related to
implementation or development on Linux. Taashee helps its customers to
fully utilize the power of Linux and open source technologies. These
results in higher stability, higher security and higher performance with
lower cost and lesser administrative overheads compared to Microsoft
based solutions. Even for long-time UNIX users, who are stuck with
limited and proprietary solutions, Taashee offers migration services to
switch over to Enterprise-grade Red Hat.
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