Dubai Investments launches state-of-the-art data center

This centre was inaugurated by Mr. Khalid Kalban, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Investments. The data centre will provide clients with access to a fully-redundant IT infrastructure with 24/7 onsite security and technical support, in addition to a comprehensive range of value-added service offerings.

Dubai Investments also announced that it will create a subsidiary company to manage the data center collocation and managed services business, in order to efficiently meet the growing demand for these services from various companies in Dubai Investments Park. The new subsidiary will form strategic partnerships with converged network providers for connectivity, and with enterprise solution providers and information security vendors for delivering software and security as a service to the companies.

Shukri Al Mehairi, General Manager, Dubai Investments Industries, said, "This state-of-the-art data center will serve as a robust infrastructure for IT operations of DI subsidiaries and companies in Dubai Investments Park. Companies today rely extensively on its information systems to efficiently run operations, making it imperative to have the support of a dedicated facility that hosts mission critical computer systems."

"Our new data center offers a scalable, no single-point-of-failure infrastructure. Moreover, the server consolidation, storage consolidation and in-row cooling contribute to increased power saving, making it a green data center," added Kalban.

Manoharan Kothandraman, IT Advisor, Dubai Investments, said, "The data center and managed services will offer companies in Dubai Investments Park a full-fledged IT setup on a monthly service fee. We are certain that companies will soon see a significant increase in business value without major capital investments and huge spending on internal IT resources."

The data center will host enterprise IT solutions like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), e-mail, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and Human Resource Management Systems, and will manage information security solutions like firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, VPN (Virtual Private Network) and web filter. This will benefit the subsidiaries of Dubai Investments as well as the companies in Dubai Investments Park. Moreover, apart from hosting websites of client companies, the new data center will offer collocation facilities for companies that want to manage their servers independently.