CASE STUDY
KUWAIT CSC SELECTS
EMC TO ACCELERATE
IT TRANSFORMATION
EMC Middle East has announced that the Civil
Services Commission (CSC) of Kuwait has
selected solutions from EMC’s Data Protection
and Availability Division to accelerate the
organisation’s IT transformation journey.
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SC has selected EMC Avamar
and EMC Data Domain to
create an efficient and reliable
backup infrastructure that provides costeffective continuous data protection
and disaster recovery so as to enable
uninterrupted service to users.
CUSTOMER BENEFITS
Improved performance
With EMC Avamar, CSC has been
able to significantly drive backup and
recovery performance from hours to
minutes.
Enhanced trust
EMC Data Domain enables new deduplication capabilities to improve
storage utilisation and to provide cost
effective, continuous data protection to
meet compliance requirements.
Enhanced efficiency
The all-new architecture allows CSC
to cut back operational overheads
associated with traditional tape based
architecture and drastically improve
storage utilisation by over 420%.
Simplified administration
The heightened automation
capabilities allow CSC to drive resource
productivity and utilisation, creating a
performance backed foundation that
provides protection and availability
of steadily growing volumes of critical
data and applications.
“With its mandate to service critical
information and applications for all
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INTELLIGENTCIO
CSC AND EMC
TOGETHER EMBARKED
ON AN AMBITIOUS
PROJECT AIMED AT
COMPLETELY REPLACING
TRADITIONAL
TAPE-BASED
INFRASTRUCTURE
WITH A COMPLETE ENDTO-END BACKUP AND
RECOVERY SOLUTION
THAT PROVISIONED THE
AGILITY, EFFICIENCY
AND DE-DUPLICATION
CAPABILITIES TO
SUPPORT THE CSC’S
OBJECTIVES.
public entities across Kuwait, the
Civil Services Commission needed
next generation backup and recovery
infrastructure that provided the
resiliency, scale and performance
needed to cope with steadily growing
volumes of data.
After careful consideration of the
various objectives, the entity has
selected best in class solutions from the
EMC Data Protection and Availability
division to create an end to end backup
and recovery environment that allows
the team to drive service levels, improve
storage utilisation and avail new
efficiencies”, says Habib Mahakian, Vice
President, Gulf and Pakistan at EMC
Corporation.
Customer challenges
CSC and EMC together embarked on an
ambitious project aimed at completely
replacing traditional tape-based
infrastructure with a complete end- toend backup and recovery solution that
provisioned the agility, efficiency and
de-duplication capabilities to support
the CSC’s objectives.
CSC selected EMC Avamar to
create the next generation backup
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