Compugen Inc. took home this year’s top honours in the Best Mid-Market Solution category at the CEAs.Compugen helped its customer, Kore Telematics, a business-class, all-digital wireless service provider for the machine-to-machine telematics and telemetry markets, implement an infrastructure optimization solution that would help simplify the company’s IT operations.
In the end, the solution also helped lower the internal cost in its data centre, as well as helped the company improve the performance and reliability of its external network to customers.
The winning solution consisted of a new IP WAN (wide-area network) infrastructure as well as the duplication of the customer’s network infrastructure in another city as a secondary backup site for backup, redundancy and failover purposes.Being a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, Compugen helped Kore build an entirely new IP WAN infrastructure based on Cisco technology, from the ground up.
The company had too many servers to manage for a company of its size and they also didn’t have adequate backup in the event of a server failure.
Using Cisco’s Unified Computing System server platform and EMC SAN and VMware virtualization software, Compugen was able to consolidate 35 of Kore’s production servers into virtual machines that ran on four physical servers. This helped reduce the company’s carbon footprint and made its business run more efficiently.
With the new solution, Kore now has the ability to perform system maintenance without affecting their customers’ connections. The combination of various technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware also helped to create a highly available and scalable computing environment for Kore.
James Morris, manager of network engineering and operations at Kore, said the infrastructure optimization solution from Compugen eliminates database downtime.
“Our databases are zero downtime fault-tolerant, so I can walk into the data centre and physically unplug a server, for example, without losing a single network packet or storage record and without anyone even noticing,” he said.
Some of the business benefits from the Compugen solution include lower power consumption by 60 per cent, decreased cooling requirements by 50 per cent, reduced maintenance costs by 50 per cent, decreased connection costs of about $90,000 a year and increased scalability by 400 per cent.
Reid Fontaine, a corporate account manager at Compugen, said in working with Kore, the way the company works with its customers was only further validated.
“It further supports something we have known for some time.”
The other winners in this category were Softchoice Corp., who won silver and Illuminiti Inc., who won the bronze award.