February 27, 2008—IBM and Kalbe recently announced a collaborative effort to build a new energy-efficient “green data center” and undergo a major data center consolidation project in order to meet Kalbe’s technology requirements for its expanding business while simultaneously saving energy.
Kalbe, a major pharmaceutical and health company in Indonesia, is teaming with IBM to deploy data center consolidation with an explicit goal of reducing energy consumption as well as reducing information technology (IT) maintenance and space in its own data center facilities across Jakarta. IBM will help Kalbe consolidate to five data centers from its current 13 existing data centers during the initial phase.
In addition, IBM will install a green data center. Other site and facilities services and server services to be implemented include data center strategy, data center design, server and storage integration, relocation planning, project management, infrastructure equipment sourcing, installation services and management, data center testing, and startup management.
IBM says it can implement the entire solution in 8 to 24 weeks, compared to what they say is the industry norm of about 40 weeks.
For more information visit IBM’s Project Big Green or the Kalbe Web site.
