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Oman Air taps UAE firm for IT upgrade
Oman Air appointed Gulf Business Machines (GBM), an IT solutions and service providers in the UAE, to successfully implement state-of-the-art IT business continuity solutions.
- Staff Report
- Published: 17:44 August 24, 2008
Muscat, Oman: Oman Air appointed Gulf Business Machines (GBM), an IT solutions and service providers in the UAE, to successfully implement state-of-the-art IT business continuity solutions.
GBM is enhancing Oman Air's present IT infrastructure by implementing a new data recovery center providing the airline with a leading-edge solution ensuring flawless continuity of services in the event of a failure of the main IT system. This solution allows all IT systems to be duplicated and backed up in real time and stored safely for immediate use.
The GBM solution includes the implementation of CISCO Systems networking components, involving replacing and laying fiber and UTP cabling as well as implementing Veritas-based replication for critical servers. The project began in late 2007 and will be fully operational in the coming weeks.
"As the Airline business grows ever more dependent on IT services, the need for an alternate data centre with a proper data disaster recovery solution to ensure continuous availability of systems has become very crucial for operations," said Oman Air's Head of Information & Computing Habib Bhacker Habib.
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