Sharqiyah Water and Sanitation Company

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Customer name: Sharqiyah Water and Sanitation Company

Industry: Government and Public Sector

Project Name: Data center renovation turnkey project

Offering: Networking and Extra Low Voltage

Customer Need:

The Portable Water and Sanitary Drainage Company needed to establish a ready environment to encompass its future services. It has also been facing a number of challenges that needed to be addressed, such as frequent power outages, unstable applications, legacy systems and the need for cost reduction.

On the other hand, the new project had its own challenges which Intercom had to address while developing the project implementation plan, including a tight budget, the location is in another governorate and the existence of multiple systems that needed integration.

Project Solution Description:

Intercom Enterprises has accordingly designed a consolidated data center solution to address the company needs. The solution encompassed multiple components, including: VOIP, CCTV, Environmental monitoring, In-row cooling, Servers, backup, and storage, 10G/40G Networking, Uninterruptible power supply, DCIM, Diesel generator, Electric panels, Firefighting, Access control)

Intercom Enterprises provided turnkey data center solutions and services including consultation, design, integration, implementation, project management, training and after-sales support. Using Intercom’s expertise, and backed by its arena of professional engineers and experts as well as its strong partnerships with market-leading vendors, the Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage company has increased the satisfaction of its corporate and customer end-users by preventing the degradation of its applications performance. The company is now meeting the demands of scalability, reliability, and performance, and was able to apply ERP, CRM and Hotline systems.

Solution Benefits:

The solution had a great impact on the business continuity, which has enabled a robust environment, which now hosts the company’s applications and guarantees their stability and reliability. It has also consigned the safety and security of their data and equipment and has helped in reducing costs, increasing productivity and efficiency, and enhancing the company’s image and reachability.

Project Name: Cisco Unified Computing System blade server solution

Offering: IT Systems and Data Center

Customer Need:

Sharkia Water and Wastewater Company requested a blade server solution, used predominantly in datacenters to save space and improve system management. They required this blade server solution to enable them to achieve more effective and secure communications. Along with being able to fit a greater number of servers per rack, to save space and reduce the number of cables for the number of servers.

Project Solution Description:

Intercom Enterprises put forward for consideration the Cisco Unified Computing System which is a next generation data center platform that unites computer, network, storage access and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with Enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multi-chassis platform in which all resources participate in unified management. The Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect component extends the Cisco UCS architecture into environments with requirements for smaller domains. The Cisco USC 5108 blade server chassis revolutionizes the use and deployment of blade-based systems. The Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server delivers record performance, expandability and configurability for workloads ranging from web infrastructure to distributed databases.

Solution Benefits:

By incorporating unified fabric and fabric-extender technology the Cisco Unified Computing System Blade Server Solution has enabled Sharkia Water and Waterwaste Company to have fewer physical components and eliminated the requirement of independent management, whilst allowing them to be more energy efficient than with the use of traditional blade-server chassis. The Cisco B200 M4 server offers exceptional levels of performance, flexibility and I/O throughout to run the most demanding applications. In addition the Cisco UCS has the architectural advantage of not having to power and cool switches in each blade chassis.