Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 31 | Page 65

CASE STUDY D 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. 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. 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 www.intelligentcio.com 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 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. To balance the needs between capacity, capability and advanced protection, KFH selected the Dell EMC solution to start its journey toward 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 its exposure to the risk of data loss. This tapeless solution will provide simplicity, cost optimisation and will address risks, WITH THIS NEW IMPLEMENTATION, KFH WILL . . . UNLOCK NEW ENTERPRISE CAPABILITIES. INTELLIGENTCIO 65