Krasnoyarsk Hydropower Plant Relies on IBM System

IBM Corporation and Krasnoyarsk Hydropower Plant announced
the implementation of a workload-optimized solution of IBM hardware and
software that has improved the plant’s business processes by 50 percent and
dramatically reduced the number of interrupted operations.

Krasnoyarsk Hydropower Plant is Russia’s second largest
energy-producing plant, according to the amount of electricity produced, and is
listed as one of the world’s top ten, serving 2.5 million people. It is the
primary generator of electricity in the Krasnoyarsk
region.

But the plant’s IT infrastructure has not fared so well. Until recently, the IT
environment was managed and monitored through a variety of loosely-connected
legacy systems that were riddled with process inefficiencies. As a result,
system alerts that pointed to IT trouble were delayed, which slowed IT recoveries
and often led to lengthy outages.

That’s when Krasnoyarsk
turned to IBM and its computing approach to IT. The plant’s main goals:
maintain reliability and continuity by ensuring efficient control over the
system architecture.

"Uninterrupted access to information
and fault tolerance of IT systems are crucial for energy companies,"
said I. Yudina, CIO of the Krasnoyarsk Hydropower Plant. "We had to ensure realtime monitoring of the
operating systems on which our ERP runs – AIX and Linux. IBM Tivoli software
monitors the status of all IT infrastructure components in realtime, thus
helping us address any potential problem before an outage occurs."

The new IT architecture comprises IBM BladeCenter blade servers,
the IBM System
Storage DS4700 Express, IBM System
Storage TS3200 Tape Library Express model, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring software
that manages the health of the infrastructure, including servers, operating
systems and databases.

As a result, the power plant is able to optimize systems across every layer to
manage diverse workloads and ensure uninterrupted operation of its IT systems
in realtime. Data management processes now run 50 percent faster than
before, while system reliability has increased significantly to help prevent
future electricity outages. Also, in the event of a malfunction, an employee is
now alerted via text message within seconds.

"IBM performs smart energy projects
all over the world, and we are happy to leverage our international experience
in this strategic sector of the Russian economy," said Alexey
Kaminsky, industrial account manager at IBM Russia and CIS. "The improved performance of management
processes and uninterrupted IT operation achieved at the plant showcases our
centralized approach to the IT management in an energy company."

IBM worked with local business partner Computel
to develop the system.

As part of its geographic expansion, IBM opened an office in Krasnoyarsk in 2008. IBM
has fourteen offices across the Russia
and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region including Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk,
Novosibirsk, Perm,
Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Ufa, Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk.