INDUSTRY WATCH
K
uwait National Petroleum
Company (KNPC), one of the
largest oil refining companies in
the region, recently announced the
successful deployment of Dell EMC’s
industry leading storage solutions to
drive an agile and future-ready business.
These deployments will enable KNPC
aims to support rapid data growth and
create a highly available foundation for
round the clock service delivery.
KNPC selected Dell EMC’s VMAX3
enterprise storage systems, Vplex Metro
and VNX unified storage arrays to
create the right storage environment
to support data mobility across KNPC’s
three data centers.
The overall aim of the project was to
optimise storage efficiencies, KNPC
further reinforced this deployment
with solutions from Dell EMC’s data
protection and availability division.
With Dell EMC data protection software
stack and Data Domain protection
storage platforms, KNPC have been
able to protect the integrity of
data and application services while
enabling continuous data protection
and disaster avoidance capabilities.
Additionally, KNPC deployed EMC’s
ViPR controller and ViPR SRM to
develop advanced storage automation
capabilities to drive cost efficiency and
simplify operational management.
WW commented, “The next
industrial revolution is ushering in an
unprecedented wave of economic
changes across the region. Our
mandate at Kuwait National Petroleum
Company is to develop advanced
capabilities to innovate at all levels by
building a foundation to manage future
storage and application growth while
enabling new automation capabilities
to optimize costs and the use of
resources. And we recognize that having
a strong IT foundation is absolutely
critical to our ability to sustain and
ensure business continuity. Together
with Dell EMC we are able to leverage
the powerful combination of world class
technology with industry expertise to
achieve the scalability, performance
and availability that is critical to
our ability to innovate and excel for
generations to come.’’
When asked about the reasoning
behind selecting the Dell EMC portfolio,
Al Duaij answered, “Dell EMC is one of
the leading solution providers in this
field and the solution was aptly met our
requirements. In addition to this KNPC
have had positive experiences when
previously working with Dell EMC.”
DELL EMC IS ONE
OF THE LEADING
SOLUTION
PROVIDERS IN THIS
FIELD AND THE
SOLUTION WAS
APTLY MET OUR
REQUIREMENTS.
CUSTOMER BENEFITS
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Improved performance: Dell
EMC’s VMAX3 and VNX unified
storage arrays have enabled
KNPC to consolidate its storage
infrastructure, to increase the level
of data availability and enhance
the performance of mission
critical applications.
Hyper-Scale data protection:
KNPC achieved hyper-
deduplication for its backups by
a factor exceeding 130 times,
which helped protect over 14
Petabytes of critical data backups
on Data Domain. This allowed
KNPC to meet compliance and
data retention requirements with
minimum data center footprint.
Furthermore, with Data Domain
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KNPC minimized dependence on
tape media. The 14+ PB of data
backups would have resulted in
5,000 tapes with massive cost,
management overhead and risks
and this is what Dell EMC was able
to successfully address with its
Data protection software and Data
Domain.
Increased Efficiency: Using Dell
EMC’s enterprise storage solutions
KNPC has successfully optimized
data storage utilization, total cost
of ownership (TCO), rack space and
power by 50%.
Enhanced Trust: With Data
Protection solutions, KNPC drives a
unified backup, recovery and archiving
environment to protect critical data
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and applications, simultaneously
meeting internal governance and
compliance requirements.
Business continuity: With
Vplex Metro, two of KNPC’s data
centres can ensure continuous
service availability to assure
uptime for their business-
critical applications. This is a
major evolution from legacy
approaches of disaster recovery
to disaster avoidance.
Simplified Management:
Advanced automation
capabilities offered by ViPR Suite
allows KNPC to easily manage
applications and data across
multiple storage environments,
reducing IT complexities.
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