IBM inks 10-yr managed services deal with DSE

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Technology major IBM today said it has inked a 10-year IT services agreement with Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE) worth Rs 11 crore for managing its IT infrastructure.

As part of this Rs 11 crore agreement, IBM will provide business continuity and disaster recovery services to DSE as well as remotely host and manage its IT infrastructure, IBM said in a statement.

This will help the exchange meet the stringent business continuity guidelines as laid out by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) before it can resume its operations after a hiatus of six years, it added.

DSE is scheduled to restart its operations in the next few months.

By engaging with IBM in a complete operational expenditure (pay-as-you-go) model, DSE will also save 100 percent capital expenditure on IT, it said.

DSE is one of country's largest stock exchanges, in existence for over 60 years. In 2002, however, the exchange became inactive due to negligible trading volumes.

The exchange is now looking at resurrecting itself and IBM will play a key role in helping DSE go live for trading by providing a highly secure environment and resiliency solution with the goal of zero data loss once the exchange becomes operational later this year, IBM said.

"Companies today want to do more with less in these economically challenging times. DSE's trust in IBM is a testament to IBM's value proposition and world-class capabilities to help its clients improve the operational efficiency and cost effectiveness as well as accelerate time-to-market for services," IBM India/South Asia Director (Integrated Technology Services) Neeraj Sharma said.

Under this agreement signed in June this year, IBM will build, host and manage the entire disaster recovery infrastructure for DSE from its data center.

It will also provide 24x7 monitoring services for hardware and networking devices from its command centre.