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NUTANIX HELPS SAUDI
PORT OPERATOR
FUTURE-PROOF OPERATIONS
The Gulf Stevedoring
Contracting Company
(GSCCO), a port operator
in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia (KSA), has
increased its IT capacity
to support growing
operations across Saudi
port facilities while also
reducing IT management
overheads, after deploying
Nutanix solutions.
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Business need
As the organisation responsible for
the management of three major port
container and bulk terminals in KSA,
Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company
(GSCCO) is fully committed to supporting
the government’s Saudi Vision 2030
agenda for economic diversification.
Scalable, reliable and easy to manage IT
systems are recognised as key to delivering
this agenda which meant the company
would have to both virtualise existing
workloads and replace its end-of-life
physical infrastructure with a more flexible
and scalable hyper-converged solution to
cope with predicted increases in customer
demand. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud was
chosen as that solution, enabling GSCCO
to reach a milestone of 50% growth in
container traffic well ahead of schedule
while, at the same time, significantly
lowering operational overheads.
Hossam El-Masry, Information
Technology Manager, GSCCO, said:
“With zero downtime even during major
capacity upgrades, migration to Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud has revolutionised our
IT infrastructure, making it quicker, more
reliable and much easier to both scale and
manage. We simply couldn’t have handled
the recent massive growth in container
traffic without it.”
Challenge
In order for port management specialist,
Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company
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