6^th Annual Edition

Last year, a gauntlet was thrown down at Genpact'They took up the challenge and embarked on six-month journey to transform the company's IT infrastructure. With consolidation, virtualization, rationalization, optimization, and rate negotiation, Prasad and team were able to impact almost all areas of infrastructure. "The result was that we were able to release over 130 servers, over 50 databases, 120 middleware instances, 15MB of international MPLS, 150MB of domestic MPLS bandwidth, 10TB of storage space, and 40 PRI lines,"says Prasad. In terms of inventory, idle time was also improved by the effective redeployment of resources. While desktop virtualization resulted in a 5 percent improvement in seat utilization, the consolidation of homegrown applications reduces the company's apps by 10 percent. Through these initiatives and more, IT successfully delivered an IT cost savings of 10 percent per employee.