“HP today announced that Sahara Petrochemicals Company (Sahara), a Saudi based industrial development company specializing in petrochemical, chemicals and related products, has selected HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers solutions to automate and optimise its datacentre processes” (“Sahara Petrochemicals Company partners with HP to transform its datacenter Operations”). Sahara is planning to grow at a fast pace integrating systems and networks. Partnership with HP will help Sahara to rejuvenate its intricate network systems.” Sahara has also implemented HP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module for BladeSystem which offers high performance connectivity to the datacenter and makes server administration and server applications more efficient” (“Sahara Petrochemicals Company partners with HP to transform its datacenter operations”).
The systems implemented by HP are energy efficient and, are expected to assist Sahara in cutting its routine cost expenditures. HP Bladesystem c7000 will combine its data on a central location further assisting in better management of the same. At a growing scale like that of Sahara, efficient bunching up of data becomes very important. A centralized data system ensures effective control over operations and cost, making the work of network administrators far easier.” The solutions implemented at Sahara offer the best-run IT infrastructure out of a box that is available in the market today. They are manageble, simple to operate and offer flexibility to expand depending on the company’s growth needs. It will also help Sahara reduce up-front capital costs and ongoing power and cooling costs” (“Sahara Petrochemicals Company partners with HP to transform its datacenter operations”). For a manufacturing industry it is important to cut the associated costs as much as possible to get leverage on profit margin. The new set up by HP, a pioneer in network systems development and implementation, will aid in reducing administrative, managerial and system cost for Sahara.
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“Sahara Petrochemicals Company partners with HP to transform its datacenter operations”. Albawaba.com. Al Bawaba, n.p, n.d. Web. 2010.