Sun Microsystems Middle East & North Africa announced Sunday that regional conglomerate Al Yousuf L.L.C. has chosen to migrate its existing Data Center to a Sun-based solution in order to increase IT capacity and help reduce its operating costs in preparation for future expansion initiatives.
Al Yousuf L.L.C., which maintains diversified business interests in different sectors, chose the Sun solution – including hardware, software, enterprise SAN storage, networking and training services – based on the return-of-investment of the Sun offering and the faster response times it delivers, as well as the expertise of Sun’s partner Mideast Data Systems (MDS), which was involved in implementing the new infrastructure.
“With more than 1,200 employees in the UAE, diverse business activities and management and user’s demands, Al Yousuf required a powerful, easy-to-manage IT environment to migrate to, and to process and store all of our business applications and information on one reliable infrastructure,” said Mousallam Chatty, Director of IT, Al Yousuf L.L.C.
“We are needed more processing power, which you don’t really get from changing the servers only, so the entire Data Center infrastructure had to be revised. The Sun environment has enabled us to improve our processing times and overall IT performance at a very cost-effective investment level,” said Chatty.
He added: “The plan was to migrate from Oracle database 7 to 9i, and with the acquired equipment, the aim was to boost the Data Center’s performance by 10. All our applications are developed in-house, so we required a complete applications tuning to use the power of the new Oracle optimizer.”
Talking about improvements to the system, Chatty said: “After the upgrade, we could push the live system performance by 60 times. Some of the DSS queries used to take 7-8 hours, but now response time is down to 7-8 minutes, while some of our OLTP queries which used to take 2-3 minutes, we brought it down to 1 second. That is 150 times faster on average.” (menareoprt.com)
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