EMC Middle East has announced that the Civil Services Commission (CSC) of Kuwait has selected solutions from EMC’s Data Protection and Availability Division to accelerate the organisation’s IT transformation journey.
CSC has selected EMC Avamar and EMC Data Domain to create an efficient and reliable backup infrastructure that provides cost-effective continuous data protection and disaster recovery so as to enable uninterrupted service to users.
Customer Benefits:
- Improved Performance: With EMC Avamar, CSC has been able to significantly drive backup and recovery performance from hours to minutes.
- Enhanced Trust: EMC Data Domain enables new de-duplication capabilities to improve storage utilisation and to provide cost effective, continuous data protection to meet compliance requirements.
- Enhanced Efficiency: The all-new architecture allows CSC to cut back operational overheads associated with traditional tape based architecture and drastically improve storage utilisation by over 420%.
- Simplified Administration: The heightened automation capabilities allow CSC to drive resource productivity and utilisation, creating a performance backed foundation that provides protection and availability of steadily growing volumes of critical data and applications.
“With its mandate to service critical information and applications for all public entities across Kuwait, the Civil Services Commission needed next generation backup and recovery infrastructure that provided the resiliency, scale and performance needed to cope with steadily growing volumes of data. After careful consideration of the various objectives, the entity has selected best in class solutions from the EMC Data Protection and Availability division to create an end to end backup and recovery environment that allows the team to drive service levels, improve storage utilisation and avail new efficiencies”, says Habib Mahakian, Vice President, Gulf and Pakistan at EMC Corporation
Customer Challenges
CSC and EMC together embarked on an ambitious project aimed at completely replacing traditional tape based infrastructure with a complete end to end backup and recovery solution that provisioned the agility, efficiency and de-duplication capabilities to support the CSC’s objectives.
CSC selected EMC Avamar to create the next generation backup infrastructure that fuelled backup and recovery performance through heightened automation, improving storage utilisation and performance resulting in significant cost savings. EMC Data Domain Boost allows CSC to avail of transparent load balancing and new de-duplication capabilities to increase performance of critical applications. CSC came full circle with the project with the deployment of EMC RecoverPoint to enable continuous data protection and to enable application recovery at any point in time.
The solution allows CSC to improve critical data retention policies, designed to meet compliance regulations and to expedite recovery speeds for many applications and files – reducing the recovery times from months to days, from days to hours and from hours to minutes.
Together with EMC, CSC has powered a performance backed infrastructure to support the entity’s critical role in the overall government agenda. The deployment provisions the scale, management simplicity and efficiency that CSC needs to successfully cope with surging amounts of data and take a step forward in its journey to extend new Back-Up-As-A-Service capabilities, to internal and external stakeholders across numerous public entities in the State of Kuwait.
“The Civil Services Commission is a critical brick in the foundation of the government’s agenda to transform the performance and provision of government services across the nation. Together with EMC, we have created the next generation backup and recovery infrastructure that is suited to our role and responsibilities, the deployment saves us precious operational time and helps in improving the performance of critical applications across remote locations and users. Most importantly, the deployment allows our teams to focus on innovation thanks to the near real time recovery capabilities. We truly believe that we have made the right decision by choosing the EMC backup and recovery platform and look forward to extending this journey into the future”, says Ahmed Al Abd AlJalil, Undersecretary for IT at Civil Services Commission, Kuwait
