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Oman Data Park and Cisco partner
for managed security services
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O
man Data Park (ODP) and Cisco have
announced that ODP has deployed
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection
(AMP) as part of its ODP Managed Security
Services for endpoint protection. with our vision to provide stable, reliable and
highly available data centre services. Cisco
continues to be our key technology provider
for Oman Data Park as we expand and roll
out our third data centre.
Oman Data Park is the first managed service
provider in Oman, offering managed cloud
services, public cloud, co-location and
managed security services to both large and
small organisations in Oman. “Based on the early success of Knowledge
Oasis Muscat and Wattayah Data Centres,
we were confident that Cisco would give us
the same benefits with our third data centre.
In February 2018, ODP launched its third
data centre in Oman at Duqm. ODP Duqm
Data Centre complements the other two
active data centres: Knowledge Oasis Muscat
and Wattayah.
Duqm Data Centre Oman Data Park has
partnered with Cisco to offer managed
security services.
Maqbool Al Wahaibi, CEO, Oman Data Park,
said: “Since the start of ODP, partnering with
Cisco has been a strategic decision in line
“Using Cisco Data Centre Networking,
Compute, Collaboration, Security and many
other solutions, we are able to control our
total cost of ownership, avoid complexity
while building resiliency and significantly
differentiate our services.
“From our Duqm data centre, we intend
to offer cloud services to government and
commercial entities, with a strong focus on
the banking and financial industry.”
Ali AL-Lawati, General Manager Cisco Oman,
said Cisco was looking forward to working
with Oman Data Park and providing multiple
new solutions, including application and
business performance, cloud managed
infrastructure and Software Defined
Networking (SDN) platforms, with a scalable
network performance of 40Gbps.
Maitham AL-Lawati, General Manager,
Risk and Compliance at ODP, added: “With
Cisco AMP, we will be able to offer our
customers a next-generation endpoint
security solution that prevents, detects
and responds to advanced threats. Cisco
AMP takes a cloud-based approach to
threat intelligence and file analysis and is
a key differentiator for our ODP Managed
Security Service. Cisco AMP continuously
monitors, analyses and records all activity
to uncover malicious behaviour.
“That way, it helps to drastically reduce
investigation and remediation time, and it
automatically shares that intelligence with
all devices the threat has touched across
the network.” n
CISCO CONTINUES
TO BE OUR KEY
TECHNOLOGY
PROVIDER FOR
OMAN DATA
PARK AS WE
EXPAND AND
ROLL OUT OUR
THIRD DATA
CENTRE.
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