Sahara Petrochemicals, a Saudi-based firm specialising in petrochemical, chemicals and related products, has selected HP server solutions to automate and optimise its datacentre processes.

The HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure deployed at Sahara will allow it to consolidate its server, storage, network, power and management capabilities into a ‘datacenter in a box’, while the HP ProLiant BL460c G6 Server Blade will provide leading performance, expandability and the latest energy efficient technologies.

The HP ProLiant Server Blade delivers excellent performance and energy savings to reduce overall datacenter spending in power constrained scale-out environments, a statement said.

'HP is our chosen technology partner to deliver both immediate business value and ongoing business advantage,” said Ihab Y Hawari, IT manager at Sahara.

“When it came to selecting the right datacenter solution we studied the different offerings from various vendors that were available in the market and found that HP solutions best met the requirement of our IT infrastructure. Through this implementation our aim is to address our technology automation and flexibility challenges,” he added.

Sahara has also implemented HP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet module for BladeSystem which offers high performance connectivity to the datacenter and makes server administration and server applications more efficient.

With Virtual Connect, Sahara will be able to reduce costs and simplify connections to LANs (local area networks) and SANs (storage area networks), consolidate and precisely control their network connections and enable administrators to add, replace and recover server resources as an when it is needed.

Ali Tamimi, enterprise storage, servers and networking manager HP Saudi Arabia, said: “The solutions implemented at Sahara offer the best-run IT infrastructure out of a box that is available in the market today.”

“They are manageable, simple to operate and offers flexibility to expand depending on the company’s growth needs.”

“It will also help Sahara reduce up-front capital costs and ongoing power and cooling costs. Our aim is to support companies in the manufacturing sector with our end-to-end solutions and allow them to realize the full potential of their business investment,” he concluded. – TradeArabia News Service