Manama

Bahrain Business Machines (BBM), the Bahrain division of Gulf Business Machines (GBM), yesterday announced the completion of a project to enhance the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure at the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA). The project entailed upgrading of LMRA’s existing IT infrastructure using the latest solutions from IBM.

According to a statement, LMRA and BBM jointly selected the IBMÆ BladeCenter HS22 to upgrade their overall IT infrastructure. The IBMÆ BladeCenter HS22, which reduces energy consumption, will provide LMRA increased performance, flexibility and utilisation while lowering operating costs.

LMRA Vice President-Information Technology Hussain Ahmed said: “With today’s increasingly demanding work environment, we believe that our IT infrastructure will allow us to reach the level of manageability which will enhance our business needs.”
“In addition, with the latest solutions that have been jointly selected by us and GBM,  the project will not only augment our IT infrastructure but will also reduce costs and enable us to meet our IT objectives.”

LMRA’s storage management was also upgraded using the IBM System StorageÆ SAN Volume Controller (SVC) which offers simpler and more productive and centralised management using a web-based storage administration through a single point of control. The SVC also provides improved storage efficiency and better utilisation of storage capacity while enabling LMRA to tap into previously unused disk capacity. In addition, SVC’s flexibility and scalability allows for the systems to scale up or down without disruption from the smallest configuration to the largest.