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LEADING SMART METER MANUFACTURER MODERNIZES INDIA


Genus Power gets electrifying boost from IBM Storage


by Andrew J. Friedenthal
4-minute read



Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd. is the leading smart meter manufacturer in
India, using proprietary technology to develop innovative and customized meter
solutions for utility and energy boards.

Thanks to Genus’s smart meters, the traditional “meter reader” is a thing of the
past; instead, the meters themselves digitally monitor consumption data,
transmit that data to the energy provider and can be adjusted from afar as
necessary.

Genus’s installation base surpassed 70 million meters across India, and the
company wanted to implement SAP HANA in order to better control its
transactional and analytical workloads. However, the company’s current IT
infrastructure was not capable of meeting the storage requirements of SAP HANA,
and thus it required an upgrade. Because its infrastructure was at the end of
its lifespan, Genus also needed an overhaul to increase storage capacity,
improve performance and availability, and support future business growth.

While Genus was looking for a “futuristic” infrastructure, its current system
was mired in the limitations of the past, and so it required a new system that
would provide it with the compute and storage that would let it scale up without
facing growing pains.




Genus’s installation base surpassed


70 million

meters across India

Storage upgrade was completed in


7 days

delivering immediate improvements in optimization, speed and business continuity


> I thought it was a good opportunity to bring in a state-of-the-art system that
> will give us at least seven years of comfort for the organization — five years
> of support and two years of extension.
> Abhrajit De
> CIO and Executive Vice President, Information Systems, Genus Power
> Infrastructure Ltd.



> Data-driven management of energy transmission, distribution and measurement
> will be one of the key initiatives for the upcoming ‘Smart Society.’
> Abhrajit De
> CIO and Executive Vice President, Information Systems, Genus Power
> Infrastructure Ltd.


Storage modernization with seamless installation
> Data-driven management of energy transmission, distribution and measurement
> will be one of the key initiatives for the upcoming ‘Smart Society.’
> Abhrajit De
> CIO and Executive Vice President, Information Systems, Genus Power
> Infrastructure Ltd.

Abhrajit De — Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Executive Vice President,
Information Systems, at Genus — set out to look for a Non-Volatile Memory
express (NVMe)-ready storage solution that could run Genus’s home-grown
applications and deliver the highest throughput and fastest response time for
its enterprise workloads. Additionally, Genus wanted a solution that would make
it easy for the company to implement SAP HANA.

With the help of IBM Business Partner BM Infotrade Pvt. Ltd., De found just what
he was looking for in IBM FlashSystem® technology from IBM® Storage.

IBM FlashSystem provides the data foundation to accelerate data access and
delivery with consistency and ease. Built with IBM Spectrum® Virtualize
technology, the industry’s only single-platform family readily scales to deliver
market-leading performance, cost efficiency and consistent enterprise-class data
services. The platform, designed for security and high availability, functions
across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and virtualized or containerized environments,
streamlining management and operational complexity.

Additionally, it comes pre-loaded with IBM Storage Insights technology,
predictive analytics software that helps users monitor and optimize their
storage infrastructure.



As a long-time IBM user, De knew that the IBM FlashSystem array provided the
necessary power and speed to meet all of Genus’s performance requirements and
would offer a competitive advantage from using Storage Insights to analyze data
sets.

“As India’s most state-of-the-art smart meter company, we need a
state-of-the-art system that will give us at least seven years of comfort for
the organization — five years of support and two years of extension,” says De.

Preparing for the future of cloud

Genus also chose IBM FlashSystem because it supports hybrid cloud deployments.
The fact that this system is cloud-ready from day one was part of the draw for
Genus over other solutions. It allowed the company to accelerate its move from a
completely on-premises system to hybrid cloud or tier data on public cloud, thus
optimizing the efficiency of data placement. In addition, Genus has obtained the
speed necessary for its future migration to SAP HANA with a system that is SAP
TDI certified.

Implementing IBM FlashSystem was a quick and seamless process, according to De.
“It was done in seven days’ time flat,” he notes, adding that his team was able
to “monitor the behavior of the storage while they are migrating the data from
the older system.”



Better control for a better future

After implementing IBM FlashSystem, Genus saw immediate improvements in storage
optimization, speed and business continuity.

IBM Storage Insights provided the team with a look into what’s happening on the
block level of the system itself, much to De’s delight. The level of control
that his team has gained thanks to Storage Insights has allowed them to make
better strategic decisions going forward, including the implementation of big
data and predictive analytics.

Such innovations are also made possible thanks to the speed of their new
solution, which has proven to be a game-changer. “I don’t think the speed will
be a bottleneck anywhere,” De says. “And the file system storage has been
optimized.”

Thanks to this speed and storage, De’s team will be able to implement a fast,
easy-to-use and highly available virtual system to manage loads of data. This is
especially important for Genus, which has a large amount of proprietary design,
engineering and R&D information stored in the form of model data, including
electronic and mechanical models and drawings.

Additionally, the data resiliency and security features included in the
all-flash storage system are vital to Genus’s current and future plans. Having
previously lost data in a systems crash, De is extremely mindful of ensuring
that never happens again. With IBM FlashSystem, he is able to rest easy knowing
that increased data security and cyber resilience help to ensure Genus’s ongoing
continuity of operations, along with better performance and lower infrastructure
costs.

Looking toward the future, Genus plans to implement SAP HANA for ERP, and to
launch a managed service help desk for the energy boards to which Genus’s meters
provide information. “We’ll be getting inputs from millions of meters spread
across the country in different projects,” says De. “They will be culminating in
one of our central control management centers, and that data will be stored in
IBM storage.”

As this project grows, so will Genus’s storage needs, requiring the kind of
scalability that is a specialty of IBM FlashSystem arrays. As De sums up: “We
may have to add more storage in a few years’ time, so expandability —
particularly horizontally — was one of our considerations. We couldn’t find that
agility with other competitors.”



Learn more about IBM FlashSystem


About Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd.

GenusExternal Link , an integral part of the USD 400 million Kailash Group,
offers highly innovative and sustainable solutions to the Indian power sector.
Genus is committed to developing innovative and customized solution at an
affordable price. Its top-notch R&D center has enabled the company to dominate
the country's power infrastructure and be at the forefront of new technology.

About BM Infotrade Pvt. Ltd.

BM InfotradeExternal Link is an Indian company providing IT and consulting
services to businesses of all sizes. With more than 1,000 satisfied customers to
date, BM Infotrade’s success is based on a philosophy of implementing complete
solutions while maintaining full transparency when making deals.

Solution components
IBM FlashSystem®
IBM Spectrum® Virtualize
IBM® Storage Insights
About Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd.

GenusExternal Link , an integral part of the USD 400 million Kailash Group,
offers highly innovative and sustainable solutions to the Indian power sector.
Genus is committed to developing innovative and customized solution at an
affordable price. Its top-notch R&D center has enabled the company to dominate
the country's power infrastructure and be at the forefront of new technology.

About BM Infotrade Pvt. Ltd.

BM InfotradeExternal Link is an Indian company providing IT and consulting
services to businesses of all sizes. With more than 1,000 satisfied customers to
date, BM Infotrade’s success is based on a philosophy of implementing complete
solutions while maintaining full transparency when making deals.

Solution components
IBM FlashSystem®
IBM Spectrum® Virtualize
IBM® Storage Insights

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