Nutanix, a company cloud computing specialist, has announced that the Gulf General Cooperative Insurance Company (GGCI) of Saudi Arabia has completed its journey to the Nutanix Cloud to help the organisation overcome regulatory compliance and security challenges
“Currently, the retail segment of the Saudi insurance industry is booming,” said Shaikh Hassan, head of IT, Gulf General Cooperative Insurance. “GGCI is a SAR200-million company, and we have plans in place to expand to US$106mn (SAR400 million) soon.”
“The regulator in Saudi Arabia is stringent, and they impose a range of restrictions to ensure robust cybersecurity,” said Shaikh Hassan. “That includes stringent requirements on the level and frequency of reporting of certain network events to the regulator.”
GGCI now runs its core applications, its HR and IT systems, and its Nutanix platform customer service call centres, deploying Nutanix Flow and is currently testing Xi Leap and Xi Beam.
Nutanix Flow provides a rich view of the communications between virtual machines, enabling appropriate environment policies to be set. It offers advanced networking and security services, providing visibility to the virtual network, application-centred protection from network threats, malware, ransomware, and common networking operations automation.
Nutanix Xi Leap is a disaster recovery cloud-based solution built for the proprietary Nutanix Acropolis (AOS) operating system. Xi Leap provides Nutanix AOS clusters with failover, failback and test recovery plans, and comes with its secure VPN. Instead of using the flexibility of DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS), IT admin teams are freed from the laborious complexity of managing a data centre.
“Digital transformation is so important to the regional insurance sector, and for such companies, growth can be stymied by an inability to be flexible enough to please regulators,” said Aaron White, regional sales director, Middle East at Nutanix.
“GGCI chose Nutanix products because of their ability to inject agility into an organisation through the well-managed infrastructure that comes with cloud-based compliance and disaster recovery. Simplifying your data centre is the first step to becoming a secure, compliant and efficient enterprise capable of delivering excellent experiences to customers, and of drawing glowing assessments from industry watchdogs and regulators,” White added.
