Natural Resources Group Vedanta Choses IBM

IBM Corporation announced that Vedanta Resources plc, a diversified natural
resources group, has tied up with IBM to create a robust infrastructure for the
resource planning system of their power business.

IBM, leveraging its BladeCenter and System X storage portfolio, was able to
provide a stronger value proposition that helps Vedanta enhance its overall
management system and reduce costs.

Vedanta is primarily engaged in the copper, zinc, silver, aluminum,
iron ore as well as power businesses and works across the economies of India,
Zambia, Namibia, Africa, Liberia, Ireland and Australia, among others. The IBM
implementation has been done at their center in Jharsuguda in Odisha. The
solution stack offered to Vedanta in Odisha includes BladeCenter Chassis, Blade
Server and Disk Storage. The solution offered augments the hardware infrastructure
of Vedanta, while also reducing the TCO.

"We have partnered with
IBM from the inception of our plant in Jharsuguda and Lanjigarh. While we have
worked with other vendors, we are seeing strong benefits from working with IBM
technology. This has helped us in reducing data center costs of power and
server footprint, while facilitating ease of management," said Subrata
Banerjee, CIO, Vedanta Aluminum Ltd.

"IBM has a strong
association with Vedanta and we understand their needs. With this engagement we
aim to help Vedanta strengthen their IT environment and enable them to take
their services to the next level." said Vivek Malhotra, regional territory
executive, IBM General Business, India/ South Asia. "Odisha is an important region for IBM, and the company is focused on
growing its presence in the region to help businesses transform themselves and
succeed in a dynamic environment."

IBM has a programme of geo expansion in place across India to
increase its presence in smaller, rapidly developing cities as these regions
play an increasingly important role in the country’s economic growth. As part
of the outreach strategy, IBM has an office in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, to reach
out to local businesses with advanced technology solutions that will enable their
growth.

In India, businesses are increasingly focused on rebuilding their IT
environment to align with their expansion plans. Local businesses have been
very keen on overhauling their traditional system to incorporate a robust IT
set-up. IBM’s aim of bringing world-class technology to remote regions, met
with the keenness of small and medium sized businesses to utilize technology,
is resulting in improved business setups for customers in the regions.