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ell EMC has announced that Kuwait
Finance House (KFH), a global
pioneer in Islamic Banking, has
selected Dell EMC’s Data Protection Solution
to create a highly scalable infrastructure to
support rapid data growth. expected to further grow at an exponential
rate, resilient cloud-enabled protection
storage with effective backup, archive and
disaster recovery features is critical to power
the ambitious vision fostered by the leading
financial institution.
The project was managed by International
Turnkey Systems (ITS), a leading integrated
information technology provider for Islamic
financial solutions and a strategic Dell EMC
partner in the region. To balance the needs between capacity,
capability and advanced protection, KFH
selected the Dell EMC solution to start
its journey towards tapeless solutions by
expanding the existing Dell EMC backup to
disk solution. By deploying this solution at
its major data centres, KFH aims to migrate
its traditional data protection system and
switch over from a tapeless backup system,
gradually reducing their exposure to the risk
of data loss.
KFH aims to leverage the unmatched
flexibility, agile performance, enterprise-
ready protection and recovery capabilities
offered by this solution to achieve an
increased level of data availability and
facilitate a superior banking experience.
Serving customers across the GCC, Asia, and
Europe through over 480 branches, KFH is
driven by massive volumes of data, retained
on backup tapes. To keep pace with the
demands of the digital age, KFH optimises
the user-generated data to offer diversified
financial services and solutions.
To meet this end, IT forms the backbone
for KFH’s data-driven operations, ensuring
uninterrupted provision of services to its
customers across the globe. With data
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This tapeless solution will provide simplicity,
cost optimisation and will address risks,
compliance and data sovereignty concerns
associated with any potential data loss due
to tape-centric issues.
With the deployment completed, KFH
intends to drive the efficiency of data
recovery to the highest level, eliminate
usage of tape backup by limiting human
intervention in backup and recovery
operations and save approximately
US$1 million over a three year period in
storage management.
Group Chief Information Officer at
KFH, Srood Sherif, said: “As a leader
spearheading Islamic financial services
worldwide, KFH has always been committed
to providing its ever-expanding customer
base with frontline products and services,
which can be obstructed by a lack of real-
time data access.
WITH THIS NEW IMPLEMENTATION,
KFH WILL UNLOCK NEW
ENTERPRISE CAPABILITIES.
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