Innovative energy-efficient systems to realise cost savings up to 15% annually
Datacraft announced today that it has been selected by one of India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies to integrate and implement an innovative green infrastructure facility project in India. The move comes with the conglomerate's decision to consolidate its infrastructure and relocate its headquarters to a new facility. The new environment is slated to be a 100% green infrastructure compliant facility, consisting of four buildings that house the organisation's key departments and IT infrastructure. The energy-efficient systems and collaborative IT infrastructure are expected to result in cost savings up to 15% annually.
Datacraft India was awarded the US$1.2 million contract to build a campus-wide, wireless network infrastructure for the company with a performance optimisation solution at its core. Besides ensuring that the infrastructure is 100% green compliant, the client also requested for enhanced POE (Power over Ethernet) to power collaborative tools located within the campus, including digital media signage (DMS), videoconferencing equipment and video kiosks.
Datacraft went on to customise an innovative green solution based on Cisco technology. This includes Cisco’s new Virtual Switching System (VSS) that enables virtualisation capabilities to help conserve bandwidth usage while ensuring a smooth collaborative experience for the users, particularly when accessing sensitive applications. New operation management features were also activated for ease of manageability.
For advanced power management and infrastructure consolidation, Cisco Catalyst series switches were deployed. This energy-efficient architecture requires fewer components to scale and allowed us to install a variety of virtualisation technologies for a greener infrastructure. Further contributing to the green cause, we implemented Cisco TelePresence to reduce travel and carbon footprint.
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“Datacraft India's Core Technology team leveraged on its global IT infrastructure implementation expertise and experience to win this prestigious project," said Shailendra Badoni, COO of Datacraft India. “We were able to impress the client with the various solutions proposed that met their criteria for superior performance. The IT implementation was then completed in record time, allowing the new facility to be fully operational in less than two weeks.”
Besides providing design and consultancy services, the contract also required Datacraft to provide Uptime support services for one year. Uptime is Datacraft’s managed service offering that provides total network with support, troubleshooting and resolution for mission-critical IT systems 24 x 7 x 365, in accordance to the set of pre-agreed service level agreements (SLAs) with the client. It also includes local language helpdesk support.
About Datacraft
Datacraft is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a US$4 billion leading global IT solutions and services provider. Datacraft operates in over 60 offices across 13 Asia Pacific countries. We help clients plan, build, support, manage, improve and innovate their IT infrastructures. Datacraft combines an expertise in networking, security, data centre solutions, Microsoft solutions and converged communications & contact centre technologies, with advanced skills in consulting, integration, training and managed services to craft IT solutions for businesses. For more information, please visit www.datacraft-asia.com