Wipro Infotech wins Intel Global Innovation Award

Driven by internal R&D focus, Wipro has invested more than 1500 person hours in developing this unique Intel architecture based storage-server solution.

8/29/2008

Wipro Infotech bagged the prestigious Intel Global Innovation Award for Storage at the Intel Developer Forum 2008 in San Francisco. According to Intel, businesses today are encountering rapid increase of digital data. Growth in existing applications like messaging, databases and emerging rich-media applications make it imperative for businesses to enhance their computing and storage needs. Adding to that are new regulatory requirements and business continuity plans which are leading organizations to have a comprehensive and scalable storage system.

Wipro identified a distinct gap in today's storage needs and solutions offered in the market. Driven by internal R&D focus, Wipro has invested more than 1500 person hours in developing this unique Intel architecture based storage-server solution that addresses this need. Wipro has made substantial investments in financing and staffing the project. Wipro Infotech handles the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services.

Created by Intel, this award recognizes unique innovation leaders on a global basis for Intel Architecture based server and storage platforms. It also recognizes distinctive innovation on Storage/Server platforms across all OEMs and ODMs at a global level. Winners are chosen based on distinctive solutions and measurable business results for challenges faced by end customers.

Wipro drives innovation as a fundamental business enabler. Wipro has global partnerships with clients and technology partners to drive innovation across different business and technology bottleneck areas. NetPower Storage-Server is one of the most recent successful outcomes of the Applied Innovation framework. Wipro has invested exclusively in a state of art Product Engineering and development cell - The Eminence Lab at its Pondicherry facility. This platform from Intel was developed, integrated, tested and certified on leading industry storage practices for supporting file share protocol services over IP at Wipro Eminence Lab.

NetPower Storage Server is a secure, reliable and flexible computing and storage-server platform/solution which integrates with industry standard storage management software to deliver a flexible all-in-one unified DAS/ NAS/ SAN storage solution. It is cluster ready for High Performance Computing users and is scalable to several Petabytes.

"We congratulate Wipro on winning the Intel Server & Storage Innovation award at the Intel Developer Forum in August 2008. It is heartening to see Wipro use the power of the latest Intel technologies to provide innovative solutions to their customers," said R. Ravichandran, Director South Asia Sales, Intel.

CIOL Bureau