GEC NEWS WIRELeading Kuwaiti Bank Deploys Cisco’s Cloud and Data Center Solutions for IT innovation and Business Acceleration to Deliver Enhanced Customer Services
Kuwait Credit Bank (KCB) is all set to deploy Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) platform for its data center 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, minimizing risks, and increasing agility so a robust Cisco Cloud environment proved to be the answer. Proven benefits include, 87% reduction in provisioning times, 77% reduction in cabling and management costs and 53% reduction in power and cooling.
Tariq Alusaimi, CIO at Kuwait Credit Bank said, “Cisco’s pioneering next generation data center solutions will enable Kuwait Credit Bank’s IT infrastructure to meet business demands for new applications within the Kuwaiti finance sector as well facilitate new levels of productivity, agility and cost savings, improved performance, enhanced visibility, and operational simplicity.”
Shedding further light on this, Zaidoun Arbad, General Manager, Cisco Kuwait said, “. Cisco will provide Kuwait Credit Bank with practical, fast and reliable solutions that will optimize their services to improve their customer offering. Cisco sees a unique opportunity to combine the latest technology innovations and end-to-end solutions to enable customers like Kuwait Credit Bank to more efficiently and quickly capture market opportunities in entirely new ways while both growing their businesses and delivering new network experiences to their customers.”
