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IBM, a prominent reseller, system integrator, and consulting company, that plays a vital role in numerous system integration and digital transformation initiatives. IBM collaboration with software players such as IBM, SAP and SUSE Group empowers organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and accelerate their journey to the cloud, thus reshaping their business models.
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Manufacturing | 1357 | $141M | India | IBM | IBM Spectrum Protect (previously IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) | Backup as a Service (BaaS) | 2020 |
In 2020, Kuantum Papers implemented IBM Spectrum Protect (previously IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) as a core Backup as a Service (BaaS) capability to safeguard SAP S/4HANA production data and system state. IBM Spectrum Protect performs automated backups to an IBM TS3100 Tape Library and supports replication to a geographically separate disaster recovery site to protect manufacturing and ERP workloads.
The deployment is built on IBM Power System S824 servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, connected to IBM FlashSystem 5000 storage managed with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. The environment uses IBM PowerVM logical partitions to isolate workloads, enabling consolidation from five x86 servers into two IBM Power Systems servers, and a dedicated disaster recovery platform based on an IBM Power System H922 with IBM FlashSystem 5010H.
Functional coverage centers on automated backup and recovery, tape archival, and synchronous or near real time replication for high availability of SAP S/4HANA data. IBM Spectrum Protect was configured alongside SAP S/4HANA infrastructure by IBM Systems Lab Services in collaboration with the SAP implementation partner and Kuantum Papers internal IT team, reflecting vendor aligned system integration and operational handover.
Operational scope includes manufacturing operations, production planning, quality control, logistics, and back office processes that depend on continuous ERP availability. Governance and skills transfer were addressed through joint architecture design and configuration work by IBM consultants, enabling internal IT to manage backups, LPAR boundaries, and disaster recovery failover procedures.
The implementation delivered explicit infrastructure consolidation and resilience outcomes documented by the customer, including consolidation of five x86 servers to two IBM Power Systems servers, an avoided capital cost estimate equivalent to 20 percent versus an x86 alternative, a 60 percent reduction in physical server footprint, and a combined 40 percent reduction in maintenance, power, and data center cooling costs. Real time replication between primary and disaster recovery sites is cited as a measure that reduces business risk of IT disruption.
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Manufacturing | 1357 | $141M | India | IBM | IBM Power Systems | Application Hosting and Computing Services | 2020 |
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Manufacturing | 1357 | $141M | India | IBM | IBM PowerVM | Network Virtualisation | 2020 |
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Manufacturing | 1357 | $141M | India | IBM | IBM Spectrum Virtualize | Network Virtualisation | 2020 |
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Government | 4800 | $929M | Germany | SAP | SAP ERP ECC 6.0 | ERP Financial | 2006 |
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Government | 4800 | $929M | Germany | IBM | IBM Db2 | Database Management | 2003 |
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Government | 4800 | $929M | Germany | SAP | SAP BW (Business Warehouse) | Data Warehouse | 2006 |
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Government | 4800 | $929M | Germany | IBM | IBM Power Systems | Application Hosting and Computing Services | 2005 |
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Government | 4800 | $929M | Germany | IBM | IBM PowerVM | Network Virtualisation | 2003 |
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Government | 4800 | $929M | Germany | SUSE Group | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications | Operating System (OS) | 2003 |
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| Logo | Company | Industry | Employees | Revenue | Country | Evaluated |
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| Hitachi Vantara | Professional Services | 6300 | $2.4B | United States | 2024-09-16 |