Saudi Utility giant SWCC chose Sun to upgrade their IT infrastructure |
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to benefit from the latest technology and international expertise. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, December 3, 2008: As the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC)Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) faces challenges of global expansion and privatization, the Saudi utility giant have undertaken an IT infrastructure overhaul following its Electronic Transformation program (e-TP Program). An organization-wide initiative, e-TP Program aims to automate some of SWCCSWCC's core and supporting business processes to allow the organization to provide faster services and better products. As part of its IT overhaul, Sun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems will provide SWCCSWCC with the latest in datacenter technology to power it main datacenter that will run Oracle ERP, Supply Chain and Asset Management applications in 30 plants spread across 17 locations in the Kingdom.
"Our aim is to develop the organization into the leading utility firm not just in Saudi Arabia, but across the wider region. By offering Saudi citizens, SWCCSWCC suppliers, and our business partners the ability to benefit from online services we'll be pushing the boundaries of customer service and reliability," claims Eng. Abdullah Al Khedher, SWCCSWCC's e-TP director.
"We want our employees to use the latest technology and be well trained before privatization to ensure the utmost confidence in our customers and investors. By taking these steps today and by addressing issues such as effective change management we are ensuring that SWCCSWCC will remain on a strong footing for decades to come and become a technology leader in both the government space as well as in the private sector" added Al Khedher.
SunSun has equipped SWCCSWCC's datacenter with its SPARC M5000 server designed with unique built-in mainframe-class virtualization capabilities, making it ideal for consolidating and computing large shared memory applications. The datacenter is housed at SWCCSWCC's Riyadh headquarters and will power applications at all 30 plants.
The M5000's consolidation platform of up to 4 dynamic domains will support thousands of Solaris containers that is also part of SunSun's deployment. The Solaris 10 software application will enables thousands of partitions to be run across a datacenter for complete isolation and control providing integrated, flexible and virtualization technology with zero-downtime. SunSun has also deployed its award-winning SunSun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System to easily scale with SWCCSWCC's storage requirements, while maintaining reliability and performance in high-availability environments.
"That SWCCSWCC has chosen SunSun to upgrade its IT infrastructure and prepare for its future growth, is testimony to our systems being state-of-the-art and reliable and capable of handling operations of one of the world's largest desalinations projects," said Nabeel Al-Olake Al-Shammari, Sales Account Manager, Energy Sector, Sun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems KSA. "It is important for SWCCSWCC to have the right technology to support the growth of their business, which coincides with the privatization of the company. Our SWCCSWCC deployment builds on the years of expertise in the Energy sector and our solutions will result in improvements in the supply chain and lead time including minimal stock and inventory. This will lead to higher value of assets for SWCCSWCC."
Moving forward, SunSun work with SWCCSWCC on the area of Dynamic Reconfiguration and Identity Management Solutions, which will ultimately improve SWCCSWCC's performance and resiliency.
Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC)Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has become the Kingdom's leading utility firm as it looks to invest over US $50 billion on water projects up until the year 2020 to meet this growing demand. Also the largest desalination firm in the world, SWCCSWCC currently manages 30 water desalination plants across 17 locations in the kingdom and 4000 kilometers of pipelines, has over 10,000 employees, and owns just over US$21 billion dollars worth of assets. Several new plants are set to come online over the next few years, dramatically boosting SWCCSWCC's water output and ensuring that its operations utilize the latest in desalination know-how. SWCCSWCC also generates a fifth of the Kingdom's electricity.
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