END USER INSIGHT
BENEFITS
• • Agile and scalable IT infrastructure to keep pace with 50% growth in
container port traffic
• • 15% saving on IT Operational Expenditure (OpEx) through major reduction
in rack occupancy, lower power and cooling requirements plus significant
savings in management and support
• • Enhanced availability and instant failover using built-in snapshot and
replication tools across Enterprise Cloud clusters in two separate data centres
SOLUTIONS
• • Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform hosted across two replication/
failover clusters
• • Prism management plane
• • VMware Hypervisor
APPLICATIONS
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Navis N4 Terminal Operating System (TOS)
EmPower employee performance management platform
Microsoft Dynamics GP
In-house ERP solution
SQL Server
Microsoft Windows file, print and management servers
IT HAS ALSO
ALLOWED THE
PORT OPERATOR
TO REDUCE RACK
OCCUPANCY BY A
FULL 1.5 RACKS,
IN TURN, LEADING
TO A SIGNIFICANT
REDUCTION IN
ASSOCIATED
POWER AND
COOLING
OVERHEADS.
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Issue 08
(GSCCO), to meet its commitment to the
ambitious Saudi Vision 2030 agenda for
economic diversification, it needed to
make big changes to its IT.
Virtualisation was a real priority as was
replacement of the legacy three-tier server
plus storage hardware in its data centre.
With three port terminals operations to
manage, the company was also keen to
migrate to a solution that would integrate
management of all physical and virtual
resources through a single interface as
well as provide tools to enhance the
resiliency of its IT infrastructure.
“We wanted a solution that would
deliver linear scalability to handle
predicted rapid growth in container
traffic,” said El-Masry. “We were also
looking for greater resiliency and the
ability to upgrade and manage the
infrastructure without any downtime or
impact in any way on the level of service
provided to staff and customers at the
ports we manage.”
Solution
Following a comprehensive evaluation
of hyper-converged solutions from a
number of vendors, the team at GSCCO
decided on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
with implementation in two phases. The
first involved installation of a primary
Enterprise Cloud cluster in the GSCCO
data centre, followed by virtualisation of
as many server workloads as possible then
subsequent decommissioning of the legacy
hardware once the new software and client
workloads were fully operational.
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