Zamil Industrial Investment Company (ZIIC) consolidates IT infrastructure in alignment with business strategy; achieves cost savings and maintains service levels

By consolidating and virtualizing its IT infrastructure, ZIIC is now able to meet current and anticipated future demand for responsive IT services across its own organization and the three sector businesses its central IT function serves. In addition to the enhanced performance and reliability, the highly available solution is scaled for growth and features a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Led by Zaki Sabbagh, ZIIC's Chief Information Officer, the IT Service organization of the Dammam-based conglomerate is responsible for all internal and external IT requirements of ZIIC and those of Zamil Air Conditioners, Zamil Steel and Zamil Glass Industries, the sector businesses of the international manufacturing and fabrication group.

"HP understands our business requirements and our need to respond to continual market changes and dynamics, and it has delivered a world class solution which provides the high performance technology we require to optimize our people, processes and technologies," said Mr Sabbagh.

HP was selected over competitors to deliver the enterprise solution based on its previous track record of success with ZIIC and its ability to meet and respond to the customer's needs.

ZIIC chose to consolidate its Data Center using HP's Enterprise and Management solution including servers, software, StorageWorks systems and related services. The HP Enterprise and Management solution is widely used by enterprises worldwide to support mission-critical business operations.

By partnering with HP, ZIIC has incorporated the latest technologies into its Data Center including virtualisation offerings - which allow IT resources across storage systems, servers, networks, and entire data centres to be pooled together.

"Today, global market dynamics are reaching Saudi Arabia and futuristic companies like ZIIC realize that business success depends on deploying the latest technologies and aligning them with business strategies to derive maximum value. This has been the IT vision at ZIIC, and the HP solution has been designed and implemented with this in mind,"

said Samer Karawi, Marketing Manager, Enterprise and Corporate Communication, HP Middle East.

The HP StorageWorks solution was specifically designed to meet ZIIC's critical need for improved storage utilization and scalability. Not only do these solutions save time, space and costs compared to traditional architected storage, they are also supported by a powerfully simple suite of management software making it easy for users to achieve the highest level of productivity.

The HP Integrity rx8620-32 server delivers higher performance, lower total cost of ownership, increased utilization and support for multiple operating systems, giving ZIIC the highest return on IT investment.