TCS commissions Asia's largest eServer from IBM

By Our Corporate Reporter

CHENNAI, MAY 4. India's top software company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today commissioned the latest eServer from IBM, thereby becoming the first organisation in the ASEAN and South Asia region to adopt the latest technology in mainframe computing.

The ceremonial login took place at the company's state-of-the-art facility at Sholinganallur on the outskirts of Chennai. Mr. Bernard Alter, U.S. Consul General, inaugurated the new eServer.

Earlier at a press conference, Mr. S. Mahalingam, Executive Vice President, TCS, said with the latest installation of IBM's latest zSeries eServer, the company's in-house mainframe capacity had crossed the 1,000 MIPS (million instructions per second) mark.

He said the investment involved was Rs. 25 crores and TCS was making significant investments in IBM mainframes from the early Eighties and had carried out some large projects for Indian and global customers such as Sega Intersettle, NSDL, Axa Sunlife, American Express and IBM itself using IBM mainframes.

Mr. Mahalingam said TCS would work with IBM as business partner to provide total solutions to customers in India. The joint business plans were envisaged to leverage TCS's expertise as IT solution provider together with IBM technology in identified vertical segments. Mr. Abraham Thomas, MD & CEO, IBM India, said IBM's strength as the technology leader and TCS's leadership in system integration would offer the customers the best of IT solutions for their business needs.

He said the U.S. slowdown would not affect IBM's business as lot of offshore projects were taking place in India and TCS had a fair amount of success in offshore work. ``We provide the infrastructure where lot of work can be done in India'' he said.

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