Kuwait Credit Bank (KCB) has announced that it is to deploy Cisco ‘s Unified Computing System (UCS) platform for its data centre network IT infrastructure. The network infrastructure upgrade will also include a Cloud Computing environment which will enable the Bank to retain control and become more relevant while reducing risk and accelerating time to market.
Cisco UCS solves the real business challenges of integrating compute, storage and networking within IT infrastructure. The ability for organisations like KCB to achieve tangible benefits by reducing total cost of ownership, simplifying management and increasing data centre efficiency are behind the fast adoption of UCS.
The Internet of Everything is leading to rapid innovation and business opportunity, along with new challenges for IT leaders. Kuwait Credit Bank was looking to improve business with new online services that foster growth while reducing costs, minimising risks, and increasing agility so a robust Cisco Cloud environment proved to be the answer.
Highlights/Key facts:
* The Cisco UCS represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices organisations must purchase, deploy, and maintain. Customer results have proven that the economic and operational benefits of Cisco UCS innovations include:
– 87% reduction in provisioning times
– 77% reduction in cabling
– 77% reduction of on-going administrative/management cost
– 53% reduction in power and cooling
* Cloud computing is key for Middle East organisations to virtualise their physical IT infrastructure and Cisco research predicts that global data centre traffic will nearly triple, with cloud representing 76% of total data centre traffic. As this accelerated growth creates enormous opportunities for business innovation and acceleration, organisations like KCB are realising the importance of virtualising their servers to create secure cloud environments.
© Kuwait Times 2015
