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CUSTOMER NEWS
objective of this project is to align the UBL integrated e-business solutions, which
IT investment with their business objectives customers need, to compete in the Internet Pakistan Telecommunication Company
and to ensure that IT becomes a key pillar economy. BCS has expertise across Ltd., Faysal Bank, Indus Motor Company,
in increased competitiveness, efficiency nineteen industries, helping companies Sui Southern Gas Company and Cadbury
and profitability of the organization. This capitalize on new business models, re- have all moved to IBM Lotus software for
IT Strategy project shall provide to UBL a engineer core processes, implement their messaging and collaboration needs.
road map and an investment plan to packaged solutions and create
streamline the IT function and to enable it management systems that keep e-business Both Sui Southern Gas Company and
to deliver value to the various business initiatives on track and generate solid returns. Faysal Bank have migrated from Microsoft
Exchange messaging platform to the IBM
Lotus collaboration platform. Lotus will
give them a secure and powerful
Parke Davis Signs BCRS CDC Relies on collaboration platform that will help them
Agreement IBM pSeries serve their customers better by being more
productive and collaborative.
Parke Davis has signed an agreement for Central Depository Company (CDC) yet
IBM Business Continuity and Recovery again trusted IBM to assist them in IBM Lotus leads the instant messaging
Services (BCRS) that will help them meet managing their increasing transaction and collaboration platform markets by
their business continuity requirements. IBM volumes and fluctuating workload. They revenue.
BCRS will provide them Tape Recovery have acquired new IBM eServer pSeries
options for their IBM iSeries and Intel model p570 to run their NCSS and CDS
platforms. BCRS provided them IBM iSeries databases and p550 to use it as an
and IBM Blade Servers for the solution with Application server. CDC and IBMs
user work space, High Speed Tape Backup relationship spans over nearly a decade.
and Laser printing. CDC is one of the early adopters of the
IBM Unix servers technology in Pakistan. Indus Motor Company has opted for IBM
IBM launched its BCRS Centre last year Tivoli for their storage management needs.
in Pakistan. IBM BCRS is the leading Customers like CDC have made IBM Information is fast becoming the most
provider of business resilience, continuity pSeries leader in the Unix space and IBM ritical business asset, and storage and
and disaster recovery solutions. IBM will claimed worldwide UNIX revenue backup management is fast becoming a
be able to draw upon more than 35 years leadership in 4Q04 (Source - IDC). key need of growing businesses.
of experience in assisting clients to develop
and implement their business continuity For more information on pSeries Tivoli is the worldwide leader in systems
strategies and plans. visit: ibm.com/server/eserver/pseries
management and systems operations
software markets.
CUSTOMER NEWS
MCB Enhances Their Jang Group Goes for IBM eServer xSeries
Computing Power (Intel Processor-based Servers)
Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB) has
selected IBM Unix Servers (IBM eServer Jang Group, after a thorough evaluation, selected IBM eServer xSeries (Intel Processor-
p5) and IBM Enterprise Storage Servers based servers) for their IT needs. They selected IBM eServer xSeries based on leading
(ESS) for their Symbols core banking technology benchmarks, low total cost of ownership and support. As part of their overall
application and as part of the project have solution, they have acquired IBM clustered x445 servers along with EXP 400 (DAS)
acquired DS8100 and p570. The new and DS400 based Storage Area Network Solution. They also selected x336 servers
DS8100 and 16 way logical partitioned which will serve as CRM, web and project server. The x346 servers would act as a
based p570 servers will be placed in the NAS for file and print activities.
MCB Tower, and will be connected to the In addition, they have acquired high performance IBM 3582 tape library for speedy
main systems of MCB through fibre optic backup and restoration purposes.
connection between the two MCB offices.
INBOX, IBM Business Partner, provided the solution and closed the sale.
MCB is in the process of setting up a
comprehensive Disaster and Recovery For more information on xSeries visit: ibm.com/server/eserver/xseries
Center and IBM Global Services team is
working with MCB team in its establishment.
MCB has also acquired IBM's Intel
processor based servers (IBM eServer
xSeries) for the various modules of the IBM eServer xSeries as Server of Choice at HBL
Symbols application. Habib Bank Ltd. (HBL) has installed IBM eServer xSeries model x365 and x346 for their
The IBM eServer p5 570 high-range server business needs. The bank will use these servers to run their ATM application. In addition
implements outstanding price/performance, they will use them as web, portal, messaging and DNS server.
mainframe-inspired reliability and availability HBL chose IBM xSeries server because of its leadership in technology among its
features, flexible capacity upgrades and competitors.
innovative virtualization technologies.
Based on POWER5 processors with INBOX, newly appointed IBM Business Partner, delivered and successfully implemented
simultaneous multithreading and a unique the systems.
scalable, building block packaging, the p5-
570 is well-suited for server consolidation
projects, database and application serving,
e-commerce and departmental or regional
server deployments.
xSeries Wins at Allied Bank
Allied Bank Limited has acquired a range of IBM eServer xSeries servers (IBMs Intel
For more information on pSeries Processor-based servers) to run their banking application as well as their ATM driver
visit: ibm.com/server/eserver/pseries software. They have selected IBM eServer xSeries Itanium based model x455 and
models x445, x365 and x346.
Shell Endorses iSeries The bank decided to go for IBM eServer xSeries multiple range of servers after evaluating
IBM enterprise class server features which has far more advantages than the competitive
Platform for JD Edwards brands.
Shell uses JD Edwards application in The solution was offered and installed by IBM Business Partners, Infotech and SBS.
Pakistan for their Enterprise Resource IBM Intel Processor based servers provide a wide range of outstanding availability and
Planning. The application coverage extends price performance capabilities that can dramatically simplify IT Management and
to all Shell locations in Pakistan where provisioning.
performance and availability are critical
factors. To ensure a high service level,
Shell decided to upgrade their existing
iSeries server to the new state-of-the-art
POWER5 processor based IBM eServer
iSeries with significantly higher processing
Government College University Selects
power. Shell expects to improve their IBM eServer xSeries with TotalStorage DS4300
existing service level and also
accommodate growth of users with this Government College University, Lahore, has selected IBM eServer xSeries (Intel
investment. Processor based servers) for their IT infrastructure. They have acquired five IBM
eServer xSeries model x226 to use them as mail, Proxy, Primary Domain Controller
Geared for the constantly changing and as a backup server. In addition, they have selected SAN DS4300 for their storage
requirements of enterprise businesses, the needs. ABM Infotech, IBM Business Partner, proposed and implemented the solution.
IBM eServer iSeries can deliver not only
the power and capacity to run core business Delivering on the new IBM Extended Design Architecture initiative, the IBM xSeries
applications, but also the ability to add new 226 offers affordable two-way performance with Intel Extended Memory 64T, increased
e-business applications on the same server. availability with integrated RAID 0 or 1 and a choice of hot-swap SCSI or simple-swap
IBM eServer iSeries can help companies Serial ATA drives, and innovative management features such as Alert Standard Format
reduce complexity, simplify their IT 2.0.
infrastructures and reduce their total cost
of ownership. Advanced Virtualization The IBM TotalStorage DS4300 (formerly FAStT600 Storage Server) is designed to be
technologies allow the iSeries to run an affordable, scalable storage server for storage consolidation and clustering
multiple operating systems and application applications. Its modular architecture, which includes Dynamic Capacity Addition,
environments simultaneously. Dynamic Volume Expansion, and a turbo option, can support On Demand Business
environments by helping to enable storage to grow as demands increase.
For more information on iSeries
visit: ibm.com/server/eserver/iseries For more information on TotalStorage visit: ibm.com/storage
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IBM Events
IBM Tivoli IT Service Management. A Better Way to Manage the Business of IT.
IBM recently organized an event in Karachi on IBM Tivoli IT Service people, processes and technology across heterogeneous data
Management. Mr. Lewis Stroke, EMEA Product Manager, Tivoli centers.
Automation Software and Mr. Bashar Qubbaj, Tivoli Software IBM Business Partner, INBOX, demonstrated their Systems
Sales, IBM Middle East, spoke about the recently launched IBM
Tivoli IT Service Management strategy that aims to give customers Management Solutions / Services around Tivoli which captured
a highly integrated set of tools, ITIL-aligned process models and the audiences interest.
implementation services to help accelerate the connection of The event was widely attended and well received by the audience.
As part of IBM worldwide developerWorks technical briefings, IBM Mr. Paul Coates and Mr. Edward Tuggle, who covered the SDP
organized a full day event in Karachi and Lahore in July on briefing, gave live demos which illustrated the capabilities of SDP
Process and Portfolio Management (PaPM) and Building better tools. These tools are based on the Eclipse open source platform
software with IBM software Development platform (SDP). The and provide the strongest end-to-end integrated set of tools for
PaPM briefing, covered by speakers from IBM US Mr. Alfredo all aspects of software creation.
Gutierez and Mr. Randel Powel, featured demonstrations of the
IBM Rational Portfolio Manager (formerly PMOffice) Enterprise The event was widely attended by Project Managers, system
Tool Suite, and the IBM Rational Software Development Team architects, software developers, system administrators, IT
Unifying Platform which includes an entire integrated set of Rational Managers, System Analyst, Business development managers and
tools. received a positive feedback.
IBM conducted half day events on IBM eServer xSeries and new announcements along with BladeCenter and TotalStorage
TotalStorage in Karachi and Lahore. Mr. Andy Parkinson, xSeries product line, DS8000 and DS6000 announcements and Info Life
Regional Sales Manager IBM Middle East, Pakistan and Mr. Cycle for TotalStorage respectively.
Mohamed El-Shanawany, TotalStorage Sales Manager, IBM Middle
East, Pakistan were the two speakers in the event. They presented The event was attended by a large number of IBM xSeries and
xSeries product covering market dynamics for Intel servers, IBM TotalStorage customers and prospects, and was very well received.
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Mr. SM Baqar Muzaffar of UBL, Mr. Sardar Naufil Mehmud of ICI, advocate, presented his views on total cost of ownership and
Mr. Mehmood Ahmed of Al Karam Textile Mills and Mr. Syed suggested ways for organizations to carry out TCO analysis for
Mushtaq Hussain of City District Government Karachi presented their organizations based on their own unique requirements.
their case studies and shared their experiences with Linux & Open
Source adoption in their respective organizations. Mr. Tariq Badsha of Ministry of Information Technology presented
Pakistan Governments initiatives on open source. He highlighted
International Experts from IBM, Mr. Rudolf Simmer, Mr. Bashar the progress made and plans for furthering the efforts on this front.
Kilani, Mr. Ahmed Shanab and Mr. Kelvin Na from Novell Asia
Pacific, talked about Linux initiatives in Governments in other Mr. Munawar B. Ahmad, Managing Director, SSGC and Ms. Jehan
countries who have adopted Linux and Open Source. They Ara, President, Pakistan Software Houses Association were invited
discussed many interesting facts and figures regarding the benefits as session chairpersons to summarize the sessions and gave
to be derived from empowering their organizations with open their views on the subject.
source.
IBM is the combined leader for Linux-based hardware, software
Mr. Mohammad A. Sabzwari, Director LPI, a local open source and services according to IDC Data.
Roma Business Machines, IBM Distributor, together with IBM, IBM Business Partners, CorporITs and LMK Resources, displayed
organized Lotus WorkPlace Services Express Event. Mr. Radovan their solutions built on IBM Lotus. The event was attended by a
Drsata, Lotus Brand Leader, IBM EMEA and Mr. Roberto large number of IBM customers, prospects and competitive
Boccadoro, Notes Domino Lead Advocate, WorkPlace, Portal and accounts.
Collaboration Software, IBM EMEA were the guest speakers. The IBM Workplace Services Express is a new integrated team
speakers briefed on the IBM WorkPlace Services Express and collaboration, document management, and instant messaging
gave demonstrations. solution with an integrated portal, which makes it a unique offering
for businesses to improve communication and collaboration.
Mr. M. Hammad Masood Mr. Nooruddin Abbas Ali Shah Mr. Muhammad Kashif
of CorporITS of INBOX of LMK Resources
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