Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 83 | Page 56

Bunduq delivers high perform reliability with Nutanix

COUNTRY FOCUS : UAE
Bunduq Company Limited was established in December 1970 to develop the offshore El Bunduq oil field which is located on the border of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the State of Qatar , some 200km west of Abu Dhabi city and 100km east of Doha . Recently , Bunduq Company Limited partnered with Nutanix to deliver high performance and reliability . Muayad Fahmawi , IT Supervisor , Bunduq Company Limited , explains why the company implemented Nutanix Cloud Platform .
Abu Dhabi cityscape

Nutanix , a global provider of hybrid multicloud computing solutions , has announced that Bunduq Company Limited has been migrating from a legacy infrastructure to the Nutanix Cloud platform and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor ( AHV ) to power its mission-critical applications and services . The implementation has improved application performance by over 50 %, resulted in nearly 40 % savings in data centre costs , and has created a seamless infrastructure ensuring reliability , resilience , security and flexibility .

Bunduq Company Limited was established in December 1970 to develop the offshore El Bunduq oil field which is located on the border of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and State of Qatar , some 200km west of Abu Dhabi city and 100km east of Doha . The success of the
El Bunduq Oil Development Project is recognised as a result of fruitful collaboration between the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the State of Qatar .
Over the years , the company has been looking at ways to overhaul its IT infrastructure . After looking for suitable vendor partners that would help Bunduq with its IT infrastructure upgrade , the company settled for Nutanix .
Muayad Fahmawi , IT Supervisor at Bunduq , commented : “ Digital Transformation is an imperative approach today . Our earlier environment was purely traditional physical infrastructure with hardware . We were plagued with issues like operational complexities , system downtime , huge delays in backup and recovery processes . The earlier environment featured a centralised SAN storage which was only a ‘ scale
56 INTELLIGENTCIO MIDDLE EAST www . intelligentcio . com