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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Engineering Services Company achieves efficiency with VDI
Cisco VXI solutions help enhance productivity, ensure business
continuity and improve customer response times
continuity and improve customer response times
Business Challenge
Geometric's portfolio of Global Engineering services and Digital
Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
helps companies formulate, implement, execute global
engineering and manufacturing strategies to achieve efficiency
in the product realization lifecycle. Headquartered in Mumbai,
Geometric was incorporated in 1994 and is listed on the Bombay
and National Stock Exchanges. The company recorded
consolidated revenues of INR 6.21 billion (USD 136.47 million)
for the year ended March 2011 and employs over
3900 people across 10 global delivery locations in the US,
Romania, India, and China.
Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
helps companies formulate, implement, execute global
engineering and manufacturing strategies to achieve efficiency
in the product realization lifecycle. Headquartered in Mumbai,
Geometric was incorporated in 1994 and is listed on the Bombay
and National Stock Exchanges. The company recorded
consolidated revenues of INR 6.21 billion (USD 136.47 million)
for the year ended March 2011 and employs over
3900 people across 10 global delivery locations in the US,
Romania, India, and China.
Geometric was grappling with issues pertaining to conventional
desktop deployment. Individual personalization done on PCs
prevented standardization, increased support requirements and
software related errors. This affected security, and manual
scrutiny was needed to ensure data protection. Timely software
and antivirus patching demanded lot of time and effort from the
IT support team causing significant downtime for end users. To
overcome these issues, Geometric decided to implement
desktop virtualization and was looking for a hardware platform to
further those plans. However, the company's technical team had
serious reservations regarding security, performance, cost and
feasibility of implementing the technology.
desktop deployment. Individual personalization done on PCs
prevented standardization, increased support requirements and
software related errors. This affected security, and manual
scrutiny was needed to ensure data protection. Timely software
and antivirus patching demanded lot of time and effort from the
IT support team causing significant downtime for end users. To
overcome these issues, Geometric decided to implement
desktop virtualization and was looking for a hardware platform to
further those plans. However, the company's technical team had
serious reservations regarding security, performance, cost and
feasibility of implementing the technology.
Given the apprehensions, Geometric had to build a robust
virtualized infrastructure and ensure cost reduction - IT support,
electrical and cooling costs; improve end user response/
resolution times, and reduce end-user downtime/lead-times for
provisioning new computing resources. The solution had to be
scalable, easily manageable, ensure business continuity,
provision for secure remote working and support consumer IT
devices. The entire project had to be completed within three
months.
virtualized infrastructure and ensure cost reduction - IT support,
electrical and cooling costs; improve end user response/
resolution times, and reduce end-user downtime/lead-times for
provisioning new computing resources. The solution had to be
scalable, easily manageable, ensure business continuity,
provision for secure remote working and support consumer IT
devices. The entire project had to be completed within three
months.
NETWORK SOLUTION:
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Cisco UCS with Cisco 6120 Fabric
interconnect
interconnect
Nexus 5000
Network technologies: VSS, FCOE,
NFS, iSCS, 802.1x VLAN security
NFS, iSCS, 802.1x VLAN security
BUSINESS CHALLENGE:
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Reduce network complexity
Improve end user response and
Improve end user response and
resolution time
Improve IT efficiencies and data
security
Provide secure remote working and
support for consumer IT devices
Cost reduction
Ensure business continuity
Ensure business continuity
Customer Case Study
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Customer Name: Geometric Limited
Industry: Engineering Services
Location: Mumbai, India
Number of Employees: Over 3900
Industry: Engineering Services
Location: Mumbai, India
Number of Employees: Over 3900
globally
BUSINESS RESULTS:
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Reduction in networking
components and complexity
o Ethernet cabling reduced by more
than 60%, FC cabling and switching
eliminated, storage and network
cabling consolidated
eliminated, storage and network
cabling consolidated
Easy, integrated manageability
o Single UCS manager interface for
o Single UCS manager interface for
managing both servers and
network
network
o Easy to handle intuitive interface
o IT efforts reduced by 62%, IT
o IT efforts reduced by 62%, IT
fulfillment time for end user