Kazakh Railways Turns to IBM for Smarter Transportation System

IBM IBM today announced that it has been selected by National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy), to provide hardware and software to help Kazakh Railways to optimize its freight and passenger operations. The system includes an IBM z10 mainframe computer. As part of a project with a total value of 1.2 billion tenghe (approximately $8 million), IBM will work with Kazakh Railways to establish a new system based on two disaster-proof data centers in the city of Astana. The new data centers will not only enable Kazakh Railways to consolidate core freight and passenger management applications but also increase the reliability of systems.