COUNTRY FOCUS: LEBANON
ABOUT BLC BANK
Founded in 1949, BLC Bank is one of
the leading financial institutions in
the Lebanon. From its headquarters
in Beirut, the bank operates a network
of 49 branches and employs over 750
professionals. BLC Bank mainly offers its
services through three business segments:
Commercial and corporate banking,
personal banking and private banking.
“Backup windows already exceeded
permissible limits and were rapidly climbing.
We couldn’t test and verify the quality of the
backups in a timely manner either. When it’s
the financial data of customers at stake, you
simply cannot bear such a risk,” he said.
“Recovery too was complicated and often
took more than a day to complete, meaning
services could become unavailable for
extended periods.
“In an industry where every second of
downtime rapidly erodes customer trust
and loyalty, addressing this was a pressing
concern for my department,” Deaibess said.
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TECHNOLOGY-
READINESS
HAS ALLOWED
BLC BANK TO
INNOVATE AND
DIFFERENTIATE
ITSELF FROM THE
COMPETITION.
The solution
BLC Bank first conducted a proof of concept
(PoC) of Veeam Availability Suite and
managed the installation in under half a day.
Full access to the solution’s powerful features
quickly convinced Deaibess and his team
that Veeam was the right choice and they
then completed the actual implementation
in just a day, which he stated was an
‘unmatched’ ease of deployment.
With 85% of its environment now
virtualised, most of the bank’s applications
now rely on Veeam. This includes its core
banking and mobile banking applications,
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