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Storage Virtualization makes Asian Paints Agile

15.10.2009
As the largest paint company in India and Asia's third-largest, the Rs 4,400-crore organization grappled with low server utilization rates at its datacenter. The company needed to move all its data - but its three existing SAN arrays were unable to deliver the performance that the growing business demanded and were on the verge of running out of space. Asian Paints' SAN products were fast approaching their end-of-life and the support terms with the vendor were up for renegotiation.

Manish Choksi, CIO and chief of corporate strategy at Asian Paints, could easily plug more storage into the SAN, but he chose to fix the root of the problem since they realized they needed to virtualize their servers and upgrade their SAP ecosystem immediately.

The result of biting the bullet and advancing their overall SAN migration plan by a year saw the consolidation of the three SAN arrays into two newer SAN platforms, which packed fatter disks with better performance. This doubled the throughput of the storage ecosystem and ensured scalability for at least two years.

At Asian paints, low server utilization was a problem and the CIO remedied it by virtualizing the servers