GEC NEWS WIREMcDonald’s Saudi Arabia Lays Foundation for Expansion in Saudi with Investments in R&MinteliPhy Solution for Data Center
Riyadh International Catering Corp, the developmental licensee for the McDonald’s Corporation in the Central, Eastern, and Northern regions of Saudi Arabia has invested in a new data center fitted with state-of-the-art connectivity infrastructure from Reichle & De-Massari (R&M). This Riyadh-based data center will serve as the IT operations hub for over 130 food outlets across the Kingdom and will host applications that are vital to services offered to the quick service restaurant giant’s customers and employees in the country.
Waleed Naseer F. Al Saud, VP, Business Support, at Riyadh International Catering Corp (RICC) said, “To maintain the highest quality in our food and service, we have to ensure that our back-end operations and applications are also of the highest quality. We therefore needed a connectivity infrastructure that was very high-performance, reliable, and capable of scaling to support the rapid growth that we have been enjoying in Saudi Arabia.”
The R&MinteliPhy system was designed to allow full infrastructure management of McDonald’s data center and office cabling cabinets at their Head Office in Riyadh. Manzoor Ali, Managing Director KSA, & Bahrain at R&M said, “As per McDonald’s request, the R&MinteliPhy system was also used to monitor – via SNMP – other devices in the network for more integration with the Building Management System (BMS) and active equipment. The R&MinteliPhy system was also focused on heavily during the training and it featured demonstrations to familiarized attendees with the different features of the system.
