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CASE STUDY
SAIC POWERS SMART GRID AS A
SERVICE WITH VBLOCK
SERVICE WITH VBLOCK
™
INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORMS
Agility of Private Cloud Enables Cost-Effective, Rapid Scaling to Support
One Million Meters
One Million Meters
Executive Summary
Challenge
Huge market anticipated for Smart Grid as a Service (SGS)
Growth rate of adoption by utilities difficult to forecast
Solution
Vblock
™ Infrastructure Platforms
o Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers
o Cisco Nexus switches
o EMC CLARiiON storage
o VMware vSphere virtualization solution
o VMware vCloud director
o EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)
Professional services
Results
Pre-integration, single support reduce risk
Agility and cost-effective scalability to support unpredictable rate of adoption
Granular analysis of impact of growth on infrastructure
Shared, private cloud infrastructure creates economies of scale for utilities
Agility and cost-effective scalability to support unpredictable rate of adoption
Granular analysis of impact of growth on infrastructure
Shared, private cloud infrastructure creates economies of scale for utilities
Challenge
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a Fortune 500 scientific, engineering, and technology
applications company providing utilities a comprehensive, hosted, smart grid infrastructure for public power
communities that offer integrated, affordable-solutions.
applications company providing utilities a comprehensive, hosted, smart grid infrastructure for public power
communities that offer integrated, affordable-solutions.
Erik Naugle, vice president at SAIC,
says, “The smaller utilities and co-ops do not have the public funding and
resources to invest in their own smart-grid infrastructure. So, we are providing them with a much more economical
option as
option as
“smart grid as a service” on a per-meter, per-month basis. The market for shared smart grid offerings is
expected to be huge. Our challenge is to provide a shared, highly reliable infrastructure with tremendous
scalability and agility because we really don’t know our requirements up front.”
scalability and agility because we really don’t know our requirements up front.”
Solution
To support projects of this type SAIC provides a scalable and secure shared infrastructure that will be easy to
deploy and manage. We are partnering with Vblock
deploy and manage. We are partnering with Vblock
TM
Infrastructure Platforms from VCE, and others, to develop
the right solutions.