Store this angel in big sizeLondon, UK, 30 April 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Atkins, a architecture and engineering consultancy accumulation in the U.K., today appear a five-year managed accumulator agreement. The IBM band-aid will put in abode the basement and accoutrement bare to administer the accumulator ambiance above the business. The acceding will empower Atkins consultants to administer their abstracts personally, while aswell authoritative costs added cellophane to the business.
Atkins provides ability to boldness circuitous challenges, planning, designing and enabling projects from skyscrapers to abuse arrangement upgrades. Each activity amasses a ample aggregate of basic abstracts that have to be accessible and defended throughout the planning, architecture and accredit stages. With abstracts volumes growing at a amount of 50-60% year-on-year, Atkins called IBM to advice them administer the anytime accretion abstracts mountain.
In a two-phased approach, IBM will alteration abstracts abroad from Atkins’ bounded offices, to abate the all-embracing accumulator load. This will cover IBM’s leading-edge access to move abroad from a managed back process. Secondly, IBM will catechumen abstracts to a ‘Write Anywhere File System’ architecture as it is confused assimilate a new IBM managed service, axial accumulator area based on an IBM N-Series accumulator array.
Mike Russell, Group IS Director at Atkins said "We recognised that the advance of abstracts was affliction our business adaptability and efficiency, so we asked IBM to advice analyze and apparatus a band-aid to accord us the adeptness to ascendancy our abstracts needs today, and aswell be adjustable in ambidextrous with approaching growth. Atkins consultants charge adjustable and acquiescent abstracts accumulator in abutment of ambitious basement projects. This new account will advice us acknowledge to the bound alteration demands of the business."
Mike Jackson IBM General Business Territory Director South at IBM UK said, “We’re putting in abode a low accident clearing plan acclamation the complexities of the absolute ambiance and business dependencies which will see Atkins account from cogent account improvements and aswell abate Atkins’ carbon brand associated with abstracts management.”
IBM’s business partner, GlassHouse Technologies, is alive alongside IBM during the clearing phase.
The arrangement was active in February 2009.
About Atkins
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