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Essar Group optimizes service with Microsoft Azure
By StorageAsia Editors | May 3, 2012
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PrintThe Essar Group is a multinational conglomerate and a leading player in the sectors of steel, oil and gas, power, communications and business process outsourcing (BPO), shipping, ports and logistics, projects, and minerals. The group began its operations in 1969 as a construction company but quickly moved to capitalize on every business opportunity. With operations in more than 25 countries across five continents, the group employs 75,000 people, with revenues of U.S.$ 17 billion.
Already familiar with the concept of cloud computing, Essar wanted to develop a cloud version of some of its applications to increase their appeal. Specifically, it wanted to reduce the capital investment required to run these applications on-premises. At the same time, it wanted to reduce the level of IT maintenance required to manage the applications, a cost that is incurred with any on-premises software application.
The company selected the Windows Azure Platform and partnered with IT services vendor MindTree to deploy the product,
In August 2011, Essar migrated four of its applications to the Windows Azure platform. These included HSECAR (Corrective Action Report (CAR) system), AVID (A Voyage into Insatiable Discovery), Saksham, and Visitor Management System & Gate Pass System.
The company is now using the Windows Azure cloud services operating system, the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform, to provide on-demand computing and storage capacity for these applications.
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