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LEBANON
LEBANON
EMC Middle East has announced a landmark project with the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), the private
Catholic higher education institution founded by the Lebanese Maronite Order (LMO) in 1938. USEK selected
EMC’s storage in addition to data protection and availability solutions to digitally preserve over 10,000 of the
region’s oldest and rarest manuscripts and archives.
USEK selected EMC Isilon scale-out NAS; EMC VNX unified storage; EMC Data Domain and EMC NetWorker
to embark on a landmark initiative to create a secure, reliable digital archive of valuable icons of human
history available. To make this archive available to students and academicians anytime, anywhere, USEK also
successfully initiated an ambitious virtual desktop project powered on EMC XtremIO 5.0.
SAUDI
ARABIA
SAUDI ARABIA
Epicor has announced that Saudi Mechanical Industries (SMI), a manufacturer of fluid flow
and control equipment, has implemented the next-generation enterprise resource planning
(ERP) solution, Epicor ERP, to support their rapidly expanding business.
The solution which serves as the backbone of SMI’s core business, has allowed the company
to streamline processes and increase efficiency and productivity across all functional areas
including manufacturing, sales and finance. This has not only translated in to significant
reduction in cost and increased profitability but has also allowed SMI to offer its customers
a much higher level of customer service.
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