MUMBAI: UTV is using Hewlett-Packard (HP) to build a robust and reliable IT infrastructure. Under the terms of the contract, HP will implement an Infrastructure that includes virtualized storage solutions, HP blade servers, workstations, ProCurve and services. This infrastructure will aid UTV to cater to the demands of the Indian animation genre - both films and television programming.

Says UTV animation business development VP Jyotirmoy Saha, “With the growing demand for our services and our increasing market share in the Indian animation space, there was a clear need to ramp up our backend infrastructure to support our growth. HP helped create a highly robust and reliable IT infrastructure that could address the performance requirements of demanding animation applications. With HP, we now have a unified solution and support from a single vendor.”

Adds HP India director enterprise servers and storage Hemant Tiwari, “Our technology will help build an infrastructure that is highly scalable to meet the rapid growth at UTV. This collaboration further showcases HP’s domain expertise in providing customized solutions to the growing animation and media industry in the country with its powerful end-to-end solutions”.