FEATURE: DISASTER RECOVERY
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Kuwait Credit Bank has
enabled a cloud-based Disaster
Recovery backup system
allowing it to respond robustly
to unexpected emergencies.
K
uwait Credit Bank (KCB) has
enabled a Disaster Recovery
backup system to the cloud after
forming a strategic partnership
with EBLA Computer Consultancy and
Microsoft Kuwait. This will enable KCB to
retrieve its vital data from the cloud during
unexpected emergencies.
The project launch ceremony witnessed
the attendance of Kuwait Credit Bank’s
Vice Chairman and Managing Director
Salah Al Mudhaf, Zain Kuwait’s Chief
Corporate Communications and Relations
Officer Waleed Al Khashti, EBLA Computer
Consultancy’s Chief Executive Officer Hilal
Arnaout and Microsoft Kuwait’s Government
Sector Manager Ali Haddad.
The ceremony also witnessed the presence
of KCB’s information systems team, as well
as business and government relations teams
from the partners.
Kuwait Credit Bank’s Vice Chairman and
Managing Director Salah Al Mudhaf
expressed his pleasure on the occasion of
launching KCB’s Disaster Recovery Backup
Site project in collaboration with Microsoft
and Dell EMC.
Al Mudhaf said: “The finalisation of the
Disaster Recovery Backup Site project marks
our second disaster and emergency site, as
the first site was built in Kuwait a year ago,
and is fully equipped to exactly match the
main site, working in parallel with it around
the clock and all year-round.
“The second Disaster Recovery backup site
exclusively saves a backup of our data on
Microsoft’s cloud (outside Kuwait), making
KCB one of the first entities in Kuwait to
have a disaster and emergency backup
site on the cloud. This also makes KCB
the first institution in the State of Kuwait
Kuwait Credit Bank enables cloud-based
Disaster Recovery
backup system
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