Grundfos goes for IT efficiency with IBM service agreement
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Industrial pump manufacturing giant Grundfos has signed an agreement with IBM for a new servers and storage infrastructure for its data centres in Denmark, as well as new hardware for its SAP environment.
Karsten Steen Soerensen, Grundfos IT director, says the company selected IBM’s high-end Power Systems servers and System Storage DS8300 and TS3500 disk and tape systems to run its SAP environment. The solution provides capacity for operating SAP with more than 8,000 users worldwide and more than 70 SAP systems. Grundfos’ existing non-IBM storage and tape systems are being phased out.
Soerensen says that Grundfos selected IBM after an overall evaluation of IBM as an IT and services provider, and based on the advantages of IBM’s virtualisation technology that, he says, enables optimisation and consolidation to fewer hardware units through a single hardware provider.
“This agreement with IBM marks the continuation of years of co-operation between Grundfos and IBM for IT infrastructure, hardware, software and services. With one overall agreement for enterprise servers and storage for Grundfos’ business critical applications, we expect to obtain synergies and operational advantages,” says Soerensen.
