Riyadh – Mubasher: The leader in enterprise cloud computing, Nutanix, announced that the Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company (GSCCO), a port operator in Saudi Arabia, is using its software to increase IT capacity to support growing operations across Saudi port facilities.
This includes successfully accommodating a 50% spike in container volumes with no impact on operational efficiency, according to Nutanix’s statement on Thursday.
GSCCO is fully committed to supporting the government’s Saudi Vision 2030 agenda for economic diversification.
“We wanted a solution that would deliver linear scalability to handle rapid growth in container traffic,” Hossam El Masry, Information Technology Manager at GSCCO, said.
He added that company is 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 managed by GSCCO.
“The Nutanix software delivered fully on its promise of cloud-like scalability, enabling us to add additional nodes in hours rather than days or even weeks with the old hardware and software, and with no downtime,” El Masry pointed out.
El Masry noted that the software helped the company to save capital IT spending, in addition to saving around 15% in terms of OpEx.
As for the future, the company is evaluating the possible use of public cloud services, process automation and support for the Internet of Things (IoT).
“With zero downtime even during major capacity upgrades, migration to Nutanix 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 Nutanix software,” El Masry concluded.
