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Eng.Mohammed Al wadan, IT Department SWCC |
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"We are particularly impressed by the quality of Al Yamama
Co professionals and their customer orientation. We are
excited about the future of this relationship." |
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HANY Al Sayaeli,I.T.Manager Institute of Public
Administration (IPA) |
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"Al Yamama Co has consistently demonstrated high levels of
business and technical knowledge, creativity and delivery
excellence to complete the most challenging assignment. We
remain highly satisfied” |
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Server consolidation for a large enterprise |
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CUSTOMER |
CHALLENGE |
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Client is one of the leading industrial companies
based in KSA. Client had a proliferation of
servers with a variety of Operating systems
consisting of HP UX and others. The objective was to
consolidate the servers and recommend a roadmap for
movement to consolidated single OS environment. |
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The environment included over 100 servers – HP /
Intel spread across 3 different data centers. The
servers hosted a variety of Web and Database
applications. They were configured as Web,
Application and Database servers. |
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SOLUTION |
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A project initiation meeting was conducted to gather
information on Business Drivers, Pain areas, short
term & long term goals. This was followed by an
Assessment and Analysis of the various
infrastructure and applications. This included:
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Identifying
and finalizing the list of candidate servers and
hence the applications and tools deployed on them. |
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Studying the
interdependencies of servers/applications, usage pattern of
servers/applications and performance factors |
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Evaluating of the pros
and cons of the different architectures arrived at. |
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Designing and
recommending a target environment which met the business
drivers of the project along with a roadmap of migration of
applications and servers to Linux environment |
A proposal
was provided with Bill of material, Financials and
project execution timelines. The resultant
architecture led to consolidation and reduction of
storage/servers and standardized the operating
systems and tools like AIX, Inktomi.
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BENEFITS |
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Ease of administration - due to reduction |
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