Headquartered in Pune, India, KPIT Cummins is an emerging leader in providing consulting, solutions and services in the fields of finance, accounts and manufacturing. It is one of the world’s first few companies to achieve the BS25999:2007, ISO9001, ISO 27001:2005, CMMI- level 5 certifications. With accumulation of servers, it was becoming increasingly difficult for the company to manage costs and handle issues like high expenditure on technology hardware, software licensing, power consumption, and physical space. Hence, KPIT Cummins decided to migrate operations to Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ technology to take advantage of server virtualization efficiencies. With its new optimized infrastructure, the company can grow faster and dramatically reduce IT costs. The company has virtualized 120 of its physical servers to 20 servers and thus has optimized space and power use.

1. Microsoft Virtualization: Data Center to Desktop
Customer Solution Case Study
and Cuts Energy Usage with Virtualization
Overview “Virtualization has helped to reduce the provisioning
Country or Region: India
Industry: IT Services
time for new applications by almost 6-8 weeks helping
us to deploy applications within 4 hours on the
Customer Profile
KPIT Cummins is a global IT consulting and
virtualized platform.”
Mandar Marulkar, Head, Technical Infrastructure Management Services, KPIT Cummins
product engineering partner company
focused on the Manufacturing (Automotive,
Industrial and Hi-Tech) and Diversified Headquartered in Pune, India, KPIT Cummins is an emerging leader
Financial Services industries.
. in providing consulting, solutions and services in the fields of
finance, accounts and manufacturing. It is one of the world’s first
Business Situation
KPIT Cummins wanted to cut capex and few companies to achieve the BS25999:2007, ISO9001, ISO
opex expenses, reduce the number of 27001:2005, CMMI- level 5 certifications. With accumulation of
physical servers it operated, and optimize
system flexibility and maintenance to best servers, it was becoming increasingly difficult for the company to
serve its business requirements. manage costs and handle issues like high expenditure on
Solution technology hardware, software licensing, power consumption, and
To optimize the growing data centers physical space. Hence, KPIT Cummins decided to migrate
operations, KPIT Cummins implemented a
virtualization solution centered on Windows operations to Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ technology to
Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ technology to take advantage of server virtualization efficiencies. With its new
consolidate hardware, minimize rack space
and ownership and software cost. optimized infrastructure, the company can grow faster and
dramatically reduce IT costs. The company has virtualized 120 of its
Benefits
 Consolidates multiple servers
physical servers to 20 servers and thus has optimized space and
 Reduces power consumption power use.
 Reduces opex and capex cost
 Improves service quality

2. Situation servers that had less than 30 percent
Founded in 1990, KPIT Cummins specializes utilisation. Initially the managers planned to
in consulting in Governance and Regulatory replace some of them by new hardware and
“We have trimmed our Compliance, high end transactional BPO/KPO renew the annual maintenance contract
and Enterprise Support to global customers. (AMC) of remaining servers, but these options
physical server holdings The company is focused on co-innovating required considerable capital and operating
—from 120 to merely 20 domain intensive technology solutions for expenses. “Our goal was to deploy Green IT
manufacturing corporations in automotive, solutions, reduce capex and opex expenses
servers. Currently the industrials, hi-tech verticals and diversified by at least 15 percent and improve asset
entire setup is running financial services. It has established state of utilization by 20 percent,” explains Mandar
art eco friendly facility equipped with Marulkar, Head, Technical Infrastructure
on 20 infrastructure advanced technologies, processes, and Management Services, KPIT Cummins. “The
servers virtualized on equipment - complying with international growing number of servers, however, was
standards. resulting in more energy consumption and
Microsoft Hyper-V Server increased data centre energy consumption.”
2008. The expenses on With 4500 employees worldwide and more
than 95 active global clients, the company With growing server network, the company
server boxes have has offshore centers in Pune and Bangalore was incurring huge costs for technology
dropped drastically by in India. Besides, it has onsite presence in hardware, software licensing, and power
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, consumption. It recognized that its IT
40 percent of our data France, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and environment had become too large and
center budget.” Poland. complex to be managed effectively and
efficiently in a traditional manner. The
Sandeep Gandhi, Sr. Manager, Data center KPIT Cummins operates multiple data company also wanted to cut back on the
operations, KPIT Cummins centers in its Pune and Bangalore centers. To number of physical servers it operated,
help meet the needs of more than 5000 improve server performance, and optimize
users across the globe, the company system flexibility and maintenance to best
manages more than 200 servers, storage serve its business requirements.
area networks and business applications
such as SAP R/3 ERP, Microsoft Exchange
Server 2007 with unified communication. In Solution
addition, it manages configuration KPIT Cummins recognized that it could use
management servers, project management virtualization technology to reduce the
applications, intranet and portal applications, number of physical servers in its data center,
development and testing servers supporting and enhance the availability of applications
customer projects. and services. Shrikant Kulkarni, CIO, KPIT
Cummins concluded that rather than paying
The company has a network operations for many under-utilized server machines or
centre that takes care of network and less efficient server machines, each
perimeter security and client services which dedicated to a specific workload, server
takes care of desktop and peripheral devices virtualization would allow consolidating all the
support. workloads onto a smaller number of more
fully used machines. Not only this, he
KPIT Cummins realized that more than 150 convinced the business users the benefits of
servers had reached the end of their life, they this technology.
had hardware which was older the 3 years. At
the same time, there were more than 50

3. The IT team at KPIT Cummins evaluated
several products, including the Hyper-V™ Consolidates Multiple Servers
technology included with the Windows KPIT Cummins decided to use Microsoft
Server® 2008 operating system, VMware, Hyper-V solution for virtualization instead of
“By reducing the and others. Considering the business paying for many under-utilized server
requirement, licensing model, cost factor and machines. Consolidations helped in running
number of physical technical support available, the company multiple applications on the same server in
servers with the help of ultimately decided to deploy Hyper-V as it single operating system by eliminating some
provides all the functionality needed and of the servers. By using Hyper-V to virtualize
Microsoft Hyper-V meets all the requirements. servers, the company is able to significantly
solution, we are able to reduce hardware costs and decrease the
Deployment took place in Pune and hardware footprint at its data centers. Now
reduce the power Bangalore centers. The process commenced the IT department can support the business
consumption in April 2009 and was 90 percent completed with less hardware, which means lower
by Oct 2009. The implementation equipment costs, reduced electrical
enormously and thus dramatically prune its physical server consumption for server power and cooling,
helped the company in holdings, from 120 to 20 systems. The and less physical space.
company can now efficiently deploy, scale,
going green.” and manage a virtualized server “We have trimmed our physical server
Sandeep Gandhi, Sr. Manager, Data center infrastructure without the extra cost of a holdings—from 120 to merely 20 servers.
operations, KPIT Cummins third-party solution. Currently the entire setup is running on 20
infrastructure servers virtualized on Microsoft
Initially the team faced some issues to Hyper-V Server 2008. The expenses on server
understand the technology, manage boxes have dropped drastically by 40percent
virtualized setups and convince the business of our data center budget,” elaborates
users to move the application on virtualized Sandeep Gandhi, Sr. Manager, Data center
platform. But later on, after 3-4 application operations, KPIT Cummins.
migrations, the team was quite comfortable
in migrating the applications without any Reduces Power Consumption
down times and dynamically allocating The significant reduction in servers
appropriate resources. “Virtualization has contributes hugely to KPIT Cummins “green”
helped to reduce the provisioning time for initiatives. “By reducing the number of
new applications by almost 6-8 weeks physical servers with the help of Microsoft
helping us to deploy applications within 4 Hyper-V solution, we are able to reduce the
hours on the virtualized platform,” says power consumption enormously and thus
Mandar Marulkar, Head, Technical helped the company in going green,” says
Infrastructure Management Services, KPIT Sandeep Gandhi, Sr. Manager, Data center
Cummins. operations, KPIT Cummins.
Consolidation and virtualization has aided the
Benefits company in its objective to deploy green data
By using Hyper-V technology to virtualize its centre solutions by reducing carbon footprint
physical servers, KPIT Cummins optimized its in turn giving cost savings as a part of
server environment, cut hardware costs and reducing energy consumption. Along with
power consumption, enhanced server reduced power requirements, lesser cooling
reliability and utilization, and reduced facilities need to be deployed for the servers.
maintenance and support costs.

4. Reduces Opex and Capex Cost operating cost, the company can offer better
The operating and capital cost of deploying and competitive prices to its customers.
new servers, and maintaining and running
more than 200 servers is much higher than
fully utilizing 20 servers for all the
applications. Virtualization has helped
consolidating practically 10 servers into a
single virtual server. Loading different
operating systems and applications on a
single virtual server has resulted into
improving the utilisation up to 70 percent of
the less utilised servers.
“Server virtualization has brought in
significant reduction in capital expenditure.
We have consolidated physical servers by
more than 40 percent, reduced physical rack
space by 60 percent resulting in savings of
more than 40 percent in data center budget,”
says Mandar Marulkar, Head, TIMS, KPIT
Cummins.
Improves Service Quality
“Consolidation and virtualization reduced the
time needed to provision servers from several
months to just 4 hour, restored data in 10%
of the time previously required, and created a
highly reliable environment, improving its
quality of service,” says Mandar Marulkar,
Head, TIMS, KPIT Cummins.
The time taken in tracking the AMCs and
other issues with servers is now brought
down considerably. Fewer people are
required to mange the lesser number of
servers.
During the consolidation process, the IT team
got a chance to review all the existing
applications and this helped in deactivating
some of the old development and testing
servers, thus improving the service.
Consolidation, virtualisation and deactivation
of the applications helped in reutilisation the
existing servers more efficiently for critical
applications avoiding new hardware
investments. With reduced hardware, lesser

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Software and Services Hardware
 Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise  HP-DL180GL - Intel 8 core Nehalem
Server with Hyper-V roll enabled ( 64 bit processor with 32 GB RAM servers
Operating system)
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Document published February 2010