STME partners with SAP to set up the infrastructure for Saudi Arabian Airlines

SAA will be implementing SAP solutions as the business process platform to help increase productivity and provide support to the company, which will be privatised this year. As part of this venture, STME will be providing the Sun M8000 high-end enterprise servers connected to the HDS USP1100 storage systems with backups being taken by the Sun STK SL8500 tape library. STME will also be handling the CISCO requirement and implementing both the SAN and IP networks for the SAP environment, which is essential to the operational success of the SAP infrastructure.

"STME's local presence and its partnership with Sun Microsystems, HDS and CISCO have made us the natural choice for SAP to depend on for this historical project", said Yasser Wardany, Sales Director, STME. "The years of successful association with SAA are based on our ability to provide our customers with business focused solutions to manage, store and protect their information and we are convinced that our infrastructure set up will do just that".

"We are pleased to be working with STME as we embark on this major milestone," said Muhammad Ali Albakri; Chief Systems Engineering & Applications and the ERP Project Director of Saudi Arabian Airlines. "With the nine separate subsidiaries that are being spun off as a result of the imminent privatisation efforts, it is necessary to revamp our IT infrastructure and STME is by far the right choice."