INDUSTRY WATCH
“GULF AIR’S CLOUD
HOSTED APPLICATIONS
ARE NOW EQUIPPED
WITH HIGH CAPACITY
AND HIGH PROCESSING
SERVER FARMS
WHICH HAVE GREATLY
ENHANCED THE
PROCESSING POWER OF
THE APPLICATIONS.”
continuity for the critical applications that
couldn’t be hosted on its private cloud.
A state-of-the-art Disaster-Recovery (DR)
Centre was established with real-time
connectivity and data transfer from the
main data centre. DR has the capability
of being activated at any time with no
disruption to the business.
These achievements have greatly increased
the efficiency of Gulf Air in terms to
functionality, availability and support. Gulf
Air’s cloud hosted applications are now
equipped with high capacity and high
processing server farms which have greatly
enhanced the processing power of the
applications. Furthermore, the redundancies
on all level of infrastructure (i.e. server,
processing, memory and power supply)
ensure that the hybrid cloud services are
provided around the globe with highest
availability level. The hybrid cloud has also
reduced the time to support incidents on
the cloud. The value Gulf Air is receiving
from this hybrid cloud has greatly enhanced
the efficiency for Gulf Air and its partners.
The hybrid cloud has also enabled Gulf Air
to increase its data centre capacity by five
times in terms of delivered IT Services to
the business with smaller space (-30%),
less power (-30%) and less cooling
(-20%).
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