Dubai e-Government and eHosting Centre sign MOU to host data centre

Under the agreement, the eHosting Centre, through its state-of-the-art hosting facility, will provide managed hosting services for the data centre that supports the e-Services of Dubai e-Government.

Salem Al Shair, Director e-Service, Dubai e-Government and Ahmad bin Byat, Director General, Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone, signed the MOU at Dubai Internet City.

The eHosting Centre, built by Dubai Internet City in partnership with IBM is one of a handful of facilities in the world that offers sophisticated managed e-Business hosting services. The eHosting centre will provide extremely reliable, competitive, high-performance and cost-effective managed hosting services to help Dubai e-Government provide e-Services for Dubai residents over the Internet.

'We are pleased to sign eHosting Centre as our partner in this challenging task of providing world-class e-Services to the residents, business entities and government departments in Dubai,' said Salem Al Shair. 'This union between e-Government and the eHosting Centre will contribute significantly towards making e-Government's services highly reliable and secure, supported by the advanced system that is empowering the hosting facilities at Dubai Internet City.'

'Our move to host our data centre at the eHosting Centre was preceded by an intensive evaluation of competing firms. We found that the eHosting Centre was best equipped to manage our e-Services and ensure secure and uninterrupted services, with advanced equipment that is designed to provide protection against all kinds of risks, including natural disasters like earthquakes. We are delighted to assign this complex task of managing integrated services involving so many different departments to the experts so that we can concentrate on our core activities,' Al Shair added.

'We are proud to partner with Dubai e-Government to provide the support and services necessary for ensuring smoothly managed hosting of their e-Services,' said Bin Byat. 'Dubai e-Government's pioneering initiatives have blazed a new trail in the region The eHosting Centre is keen to assist Dubai e-Government to ensure the success of its path-breaking initiatives.'

'The biggest advantage offered by the eHosting Centre is that companies do not have to physically move to a provider's facility to get the advanced services they need. eHosting Centre offers the performance benefits of a managed hosting environment in your own hosting facility. No matter where your current hosting operation resides, you gain the service capabilities of a fully managed hosting environment,' Bin Byat added.

'The eHosting Centre will be working closely with the Dubai e-Government to ensure a smooth transition to managed services,' said Dr. Omar Bin Sulaiman, CEO, Dubai Internet City. 'The eHosting Centre's facilities and services can meet and exceed Dubai e-Government's requirements. We can bring considerable value to the e-Government operations by leveraging our strategic relationship with global partners like IBM.'

'With the eHosting Centre's services, Dubai e-Government can focus on their core business with the knowledge that the availability and security of their valuable data and applications are being monitored round the clock,' Dr. Bin Sulaiman added.

The key aspect of eHosting Centre's managed services is the deployment of an infrastructure cabinet at the client's hosting facility. Once installed, eHosting Centre's remote cabinet, containing management servers, firewalls, switches and other network devices, allows remote management services to be delivered directly to the client's hosting facility from its central management site.

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