IBM has won a contract from biotechnology company Tiens Group to build an advanced IT infrastructure platform to support its business growth plan in the global marketplace. Skip related content
Under the contract that was signed in July 2009, IBM will provide Tiens International Health Industrial Park with integration service, technical support and technology including servers, network equipment, storage systems and security applications to support the group's management and business operations. It will migrate and relocate the group's existing data center and servers to the Park, construct the Park's intelligent data, voice and unified communications network, and implement an end-to-end network security application.
Additionally, IBM Global Technology Services team will accelerate virtualization and consolidation of the group's existing IBM UNIX servers in Tiens' headquarters in Tianjin City, as well as its overseas offices in the UK and Singapore. They will also optimize the group's storage environment to reduce the overall cost of storage hardware through virtualized storage provisioning.
Bai Ping, executive president of China Region at Tiens Group, said: "Since its inception in 1995, Tiens Group has been placing much focus on IT as part of the company's growth strategy. We have selected IBM as our long term, strategic partner as IBM brings decades of IT expertise and industry experiences to pull together a world-class technology platform, which will help improve the company's operational efficiency and competitiveness in the marketplace."
The deal follows IBM’s contract from Brazilian jewelry chain Vivara to provide IT maintenance and management of its 107 stores across Brazil. It also won a five-year $115m contract from Brazil-based retail chain Pao de Acucar to provide IT infrastructure services, including the transfer of Pao de Acucar’s two data centers to an IBM Global Delivery Center, based in Hortolandia, Sao Paulo.
