CASE STUDY
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
• 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
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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
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INTELLIGENTCIO
with a more flexible and scalable hyper-
converged solution to cope with predicted
increases in customer demand. easier to both scale and manage. We simply
couldn’t have handled the recent massive
growth in container traffic without it.”
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud was chosen as
that solution, enabling GSCCO to reach
a milestone of 50% growth in container
traffic well ahead of schedule whilst, 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 CHALLENGE
In order for port management specialist,
Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company
(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
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