Intelligent Data Centres Issue 08 | Page 47

END USER INSIGHT am El -M as ry, Info rm n ation T echnology Ma O CC S G r, a ge 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. www.intelligentdatacentres.com 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 Issue 08 47