Aegis Logistics Limited, the flagship company of the Aegis Group, is India’s leading oil, gas, and chemical logistics enterprise. The company plays a pivotal role in India’s downstream energy sector and operates a wide network of bulk liquid handling terminals, LPG terminals, filling plants, pipelines, and gas stations. With five business verticals, Aegis serves a distinguished clientele that includes India’s top industrial companies and individual consumers through its Aegis Autogas stations. Guided by a commitment to safety, sustainability, and service excellence, Aegis continually invests in technological modernization to drive operational agility and long-term business growth.
The Challenge Since 2008, Aegis Group has pursued continuous improvement in IT infrastructure to support its large-scale logistics operations. As the business expanded, their legacy systems began to show limitations in performance, scalability, and integration capability. The key challenges included:
Outdated ERP Infrastructure: The existing SAP environment lacked the flexibility to meet current business needs and future SAP HANA requirements. Performance Bottlenecks: Legacy systems struggled to manage high data volumes across multiple business processes. Storage Inefficiency: Increasing data loads and lack of optimization led to delays in data retrieval and growing maintenance costs. Limited High Availability: Downtime risks threatened business continuity and process synchronization between production and disaster recovery (DR) sites. To overcome these constraints, Aegis sought a future-ready infrastructure capable of delivering superior performance, resilience, and scalability while aligning with their sustainability and digital transformation roadmap.
The Solution After a detailed assessment of Aegis’ infrastructure, Pentagon System & Services recommended a modernization framework built on IBM Power Systems and IBM Flash System 5010 — a combination designed to support both existing SAP ECC and future SAP HANA workloads. Key Implementation Highlights
Core Infrastructure: Deployed RISC-based IBM Power Systems powered by Power9 processors, with AIX as the primary operating system.Storage Modernization: Integrated IBM Flash System 5010, enabling faster data access, self-optimization, and simplified storage management.Virtualization & High Availability: Implemented IBM PowerVM virtualization to host production, testing, and development environments.Deployed IBM PowerHA for seamless failover and business continuity at the primary site.Disaster Recovery: Established a fully synchronized DR setup, replicating all mission-critical workloads for resilience.System Configuration: Configured Virtual I/O Servers (VIOS) and logical partitions (LPARs), mapped to separate logical unit numbers (LUNs) within flash storage for optimal data organization.Implementation Efficiency: The entire deployment — from design to execution — was completed within one month, ensuring minimal disruption and immediate performance gains.
IBM Technologies Used
IBM Power Systems for SAP – High-performance computing platform for SAP workloads, optimized for future SAP HANA adoption. IBM Flash System 5010 – Intelligent, high-speed storage for handling large data volumes efficiently. IBM PowerVM & PowerHA – Virtualization and high-availability technologies ensuring workload mobility and system resilience.
Benefits
Scalability & Future-Readiness
IBM Power9 architecture enabled effortless integration of future SAP HANA workloads, providing long-term scalability.
Performance & Productivity
Significantly enhanced SAP performance, supporting large-scale transaction processing and real-time analytics.
High Availability & Business Continuity
Dual-site deployment with PowerHA ensured zero downtime and continuous business operations during failover scenarios.
Data Storage Optimization
IBM Flash 5010 reduced latency, improved response times, and simplified data management.
Operational Efficiency
- Consolidation of workloads reduced complexity, energy consumption, and overall infrastructure footprint.
- Maintenance overheads were minimized through self-optimizing storage and virtualized compute layers.
Scalable Growth
Future-proof storage architecture aligned with Fino’s expansion plans and fintech innovations.
