GEC NEWS WIREDelivers a ‘state-of-the-art’ service network enabling DoT to respond to customers with greater speed and improved service quality
VMware has successfully completed a major project for the Department of Transport (DoT) in Abu Dhabi, where 95 percent of the IT server infrastructure has been virtualized using VMware vCloud Suite. “In the past, such offerings were placing substantial strain on our IT infrastructure and we were struggling to cope with increasing demands.By implementing VMware’s leading virtualization solutions, we now have a high-availability, centralized system that can cater for almost any customization or upgrade required. Moreover, we now have hundreds of servers being managed from a single point, significantly reducing manpower requirements of support and maintenance.” says Saeed Al Ghailani, Head of Infrastructure and Telecom, Department of Transport.
Sam Tayan, Regional Director MENA, VMware, comments: “VMware is excited to be part of the Department of Transport’s IT infrastructure which manages the entire transport network in Abu Dhabi. The Department of Transport has ambitious plans to provide a state of the art ICT infrastructure to the capital by extending the benefits of virtualization to every domain in the datacenter, including compute, storage, networking, and the associated availability and security services. With vCloud Suite, the Department of Transport can enhance its aviation, maritime and road transport services by fasterapplication provisioning, intelligent automation, improved capacity planning, and performance and compliance management.”
“Working with VMware to virtualize our business-critical applications enables us to respond to customers with greater speed and improved service quality.We have increased our operational flexibility and resource management, and saved on physical space, power, cooling and maintenance costs,” continues Al Ghailani.
