Badak NGL selects IBM to support business growth
Friday, August 6 2010 - 12:30 AM WIB
US IT firm IBM announced Thursday that PT Badak NGL, Indonesia's leading LNG producer, is using IBM Power Systems? to run the company's ERP systems, helping them improve performance, increase utilization and lower operating costs.
As the world's largest liquefied natural gas producer, Badak needs a robust and reliable IT infrastructure to manage its internal and external resources, including tangible assets, financial resources, materials, and human resources. Badak chose IBM due to the high performance, availability and energy efficiency of IBM Power Systems, it claimed.
The IBM Power 575 supercomputer being used at Badak is designed for organizations that require highly scalable systems with extreme parallel processing performance and dense, modular packaging. Equipped with IBM's POWER6? microprocessor, the IBM Power 575 uses water-chilled copper plates to remove heat from the electronics, reducing the amount of energy needed to cool the data center by 40 percent. Combined with specialized software from IBM, the system offers virtualization technology to enhance Badak's infrastructure efficiency. (alex)