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CASE STUDY

SAIC POWERS SMART GRID AS A
SERVICE WITH VBLOCK

™

INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORMS

Agility of Private Cloud Enables Cost-Effective, Rapid Scaling to Support
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

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.

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

“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.”

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

Infrastructure Platforms from VCE, and others, to develop

the right solutions.