Dubai Municipality to join Big Switch webinar March 15th to Discuss its Data Centre Modernization Journey
Santa Clara, CA - Big Switch Networks®, The Next-Generation Data Centre Networking Company, today announced that Dubai Municipality chose Big Switch's Big Cloud Fabric(tm)(BCF) to modernize its data centre network. Dubai Municipality is the first data centre in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region to be completely outfitted and operational via software-defined networking (SDN) technology and fully integrated and orchestrated with VMware. The next phase of its project is to integrate BCF into the VMware Horizon VDI on VxRail deployment.
Dubai Municipality will join Big Switch for a webinar to discuss its data centre modernization project in more detail. Participating in this webinar are Ahmad Mohamed Darwish Ali Alemadi, Dubai Municipality's IT Infrastructure Projects & Data Centre Manager and Syed Ghayur, Head of Worldwide System Engineering at Big Switch Networks. The webinar is Wednesday, March 15th at 9am PDT / 8pm GST. TO REGISTER: bit.ly/2mfNKvU
This project is part of the Smart Dubai initiative, which began in 2014 and was established to empower, deliver and promote an efficient, seamless, safe and impactful city experience for residents and visitors. By leveraging the latest in technology innovation and customer experience design, together with a culturally-aligned, science-based approach, Smart Dubai is uniting two powerful forces for city transformation. With this initiative Dubai is creating a city where all its resources are optimised for maximum efficiency, where services are integrated seamlessly into daily life, where it protects both its people and information, which will result in a more enriched life and business experience for all.
With this deployment, Dubai Municipality experienced the following advantages:
Increased switching speed by 42x
Increased backbone capacity by 16x
Increased network performance, speed and bandwidth
Reduced overall infrastructure size
Reduced migration complexities and costs
Network architectures fully supported via software-defined policies
Increased visibility into critical network traffic via fabric-wide span
Integration of Big Cloud Fabric to vCenter enabled onboarding of new applications without the need to manually provision the physical network
Environment is scalable and future-proofed for integrations with cloud and open technologies
Dubai Municipality's deployment leverages a "core and pod" approach which provides enhanced visibility and automation for vSphere server virtualization deployments. The Big Cloud Fabric controller is a single pane of glass that integrates directly with VMware vSphere to automate the network application deployment on the physical SDN fabric. With Big Cloud Fabric, Dubai Municipality was able to combine its three data centres to one logical network domain, which resulted in the reduction of physical and logical migrations costs by 90%.
The team from Dubai Municipality who were responsible for this project, from proof of concept through deployment include: His Excellency Eng. Hussain Lootah, Director General at Dubai Municipality, Mr. Mohammad Al Zaffin, IT Director at Dubai Municipality, Mr. Ahmed Kajoor, Head of IT infrastructure at Dubai Municipality and Mr. Ahmad Al Emadi, IT Infrastructure Project Manager at Dubai Municipality.
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