COUNTRY FOCUS: BAHRAIN
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Gulf Air selects Dell EMC data
protection solutions
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of
Bahrain, has selected Dell EMC’s Data Domain and
Data Protection Suite solutions to create a scalable
protection and availability foundation for supporting
rapid data growth. Gulf Air aims to leverage
the backup and recovery capabilities offered by
this solution to help meet its data accessibility
requirements.
As an international carrier serving 40 cities in 23
countries across three continents, Gulf Air is driven
by huge volumes of user-generated data – further
expected to grow by 12% in the next 18 months.
With the modern passenger in mind, Gulf Air
optimises the data to develop an array of products
and services. To meet this end, efficient backup and
recovery with resilient protection storage is key to
fuelling the national carrier’s business ambitions.
Thus, IT forms the bedrock for Gulf Air’s data-driven
business operations, ensuring the smooth and
uninterrupted provision of services for its passengers
around the globe.
Gulf Air opted to deploy a Dell EMC data protection
solution to power the IT transformation of its
existing storage infrastructure, reduce related
costs, future-proof it with advanced efficiencies and
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safeguard critical data and processes. This will also
facilitate business continuity and growth.
Gulf Air has selected Dell EMC’s data protection
and availability solutions which comprise Dell EMC
Data Domain protection storage and Dell EMC Data
Protection Suite software to ensure advanced data
protection in addition to achieving the highest levels
of data availability around the clock.
Continuing its longstanding support of Gulf Air since
2009, Dell EMC will enable the carrier to protect
its most critical information assets and enable take
a quantum leap forward in data-driven passenger
satisfa ction – without the burden of additional cost
and complexity.
“As a national carrier with a long heritage of delivering
exceptional passenger satisfaction, we are committed
to providing our customers with leading-edge
products and services – which can be hampered by
a lack of real-time data access. Data protection and
availability solutions help ensure that our current IT
environment not only facilitates a high level of data
availability, but also extends enhanced data protection
and recovery at industry-leading speed. With an eye
on the needs of the future, we are immensely pleased
to continue working with Dell EMC,” said Dr. Jassim
Haji, Director Information Technology, Gulf Air.
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