Managed and run jointly by DIC and IBM Global Services, the eHosting Centre in Dubai provides regional businesses with the ability to cost-effectively and securely outsource mission-critical IT systems on a wide choice of platforms. Jordan Data Centre, which is a fully owned center by JT, offers similar services to businesses in Jordan. Under the agreement, the two entities will provide their respective customers with off-country disaster recovery data services in Dubai and Jordan.
At the signing ceremony in Amman yesterday, Dr. Omar Bin Sulaiman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), DIC, said: "The agreement with JTG is the first in a series of planned initiatives in line with the instructions of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai & UAE Defence Minister, to transform the region into a Knowledge Based Economy (KBE)."
"Both the Dubai & Jordan Governments share a common vision to use Information Communication Technology (ICT) as the key driver towards developing a stronger regional economy. We are very excited about this venture with JTG, which will allow us to leverage regional market opportunities in the area of data-services and data disaster recovery through greater technology access."
Mr. Pierre Mattei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), JT, said that the disaster-recovery agreement with DIC represented a milestone in the Government of Jordan's ICT strategy.
"Two of the most important cornerstones of the ICT strategy is to stimulate foreign technology cooperation, while promoting awareness and increasing adoption of the latest information and communications technologies by businesses in the country."
Mr. Mattei further added: "This agreement, which was facilitated as a result of our participation in the Gulf Information Technology Exhibtion (GITEX) in Dubai last year, will create an alliance with DIC, thus establishing a strong wide regional platform for hosting e-services."
Explaining the significance for data disaster recovery systems for businesses, Dr. Sulaiman continued by saying that according to a recent Gartner Group study, two out of five enterprises that experience a disaster affecting their core business data go out of business within five years.
"One of the key challenges facing businesses in the region is to ensure the availability of key business processes on a 24/7 basis under all circumstances. In the event of a disaster that destroys the IT infrastructure of a business, a contingency plan allows access to crucial data, thereby ensuring the continued smooth running of the business with minimum downtime. This is where this collaboration will provide value-added services to the customers of both DIC's eHosting Centre and Jordan Data Centre," said Dr. Sulaiman.
"Regional businesses need to make an important paradigm shift in terms of how they view and incorporate data disaster recovery efforts within the company's overall strategy towards ensuring a coherent, end-to-end business continuity plan," he added.
Through the agreement, customers hosting mission-critical data and applications at DIC's eHosting Centre, can also choose to avail of a similar solution at the Jordan Data Centre facility in Jordan. Reciprocally, Jordan Data Centre will also offer its customers the option to simultaneously host data and applications at the eHosting Centre in Dubai.
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Dubai Internet City enters into pioneering data services agreement with Jordan Telecom
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, June 04 - 2002 at 14:31
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In a significant regional development, two of the Middle East's premier E-hosting and data service providers - Dubai Internet City (DIC) and Jordan Telecom (JT) - have signed a landmark agreement to provide reciprocal off-country disaster recovery data services to their regional customers.
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About Dubai Internet City:Dubai Internet City is the first complete Information Technology and Telecommunications centre in the world to have been built inside a free trade zone.
Dubai Internet City offers modern, ready-to-operate, fully serviced office space catering to the specific needs of today's new economy companies. These offices offer cutting edge technology and provide both wired and wireless networks. Dubai Internet City allows 100% foreign ownership of companies, and laws relating to partnerships with local sponsors have been relaxed.
Sales, company earnings and private income are exempt from any form of taxation. Companies can also take land on a renewable lease of up to 50 years and build their own offices. Dubai Internet City's infrastructure is second to none. Sun Microsystems provided the server platforms, iPlanet the software, Lucent the cabling, Cisco the active components, with Siemens being the project integrator.
Dubai Internet City is the biggest IT-build in the Middle East, and has the largest generation Internet Protocol telephony system in the world. Sets of intellectual property and cyber regulations have been implemented to protect the integrity of e-business and a dedicated government agency has been created to ensure enforcement of these regulations.
Dubai Internet City has issued licenses to a host of global information technology companies. Microsoft, Oracle, andHewlett-Packard have already identified their long-term objectives here.
About DIC's eHosting centre
Managed and run jointly by DIC and IBM Global Services, the eHosting Centre at Dubai Internet City provides regional businesses with the ability to cost-effectively and securely outsource mission-critical IT systems. The facility includes the latest storage and server technology from IBM and other vendors, with a strong emphasis on open standards and high-speed connectivity, giving customers a wide choice of platforms to host their systems. It gives organisations new options for outsourcing, backed by the confidence of IBM's global technical and services resources.
As part of the alliance agreement IBM provided design consultancy to make the building housing the eHosting Centre secure and resilient, with highly reliable power generation and distribution systems with no single points of failure; it installed the server farm, network and security systems (including IBM and non-IBM technology) and the management and control systems.
The eHosting Centre can host a custom-designed system, an existing mix of technology systems, or a packaged solution for a specific requirement.
About Jordan Telecom:
Jordan Telecom commenced its operations bearing this name on January 1st 1997, based on Telecommunications Law number (13) of 1995. Jordan Telecom is the first and largest telecommunication service provider in Jordan, due to its administration of the basic telecommunications infrastructure in the Kingdom, which forms the base of telecommunication services. Since 23 January 2000, and upon privatizing Jordan Telecom, Government shares amounted to 60%, while JITCO, which is a holding company consisting of France Telecom (88%) and the Arab Bank (12%), owns 40% of its shares.
Jordan Telecom strategic partner, France Telecom, incorporated into this partnership its vast expertise in leading and administering international telecommunication projects. France Telecom's involvement with Jordan Telecom is the largest in the Middle East region. This has successfully placed Jordan Telecom as a major telecommunications entity in the region due to its several new service offerings.
Jordan Telecom aspires in its operation to become a Net Company. At the same time, it commits itself to participate in the social, economic and technological development the country is witnessing.
About Jordan Telecom's Jordan Data Centre
Jordan Telecom's Data Centre operates as a highly secure entity with round the clock connectivity; offering an alternative, back up data storage facility at par with international standards. The Data Centre offers users, such as ISPs a safe hi-tech environment that hosts their servers, thus enabling them to follow up on their equipment and data compilation and growth, and to administer the content of their servers in a highly secure environment and accessible location.
ISPs and other customers need not go out of the region anymore for hosting facilities. The high level of customer care maintained at the Jordan Telecom Data Centre, as well as the location with the appropriate infrastructure that guarantees high quality service, makes the whole operation a highly pitched professional service.
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Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, News EditorTuesday, June 04 - 2002 at 14:31 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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This article was updated on Tue May 25 2004.
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