The Post Office signs a contract for hosting its data at Egypt Cyber Center

Such disturbance always causes a headache to the officials of the post office and the public audience. But finally, within the coming days they will be able to offer there services throughout the working hours without being affected with the failures and the sudden disasters that impacts the performance of the service and financial institutions.

From this respect, the post office has formed an agreement with Egypt Cyber Center (ECC), to store clients database and financial transactions on the ECC Solutions servers.

Ahmed El Bishery Chief Executive Officer of ECC said that this agreement will allow the presence of the data at any time in case of any failure in the main system, in addition to the storage of daily incremental data, adding the possibility of working online on the main servers in Egypyt Cyber Center in case of pressure on one of the post offices' computer.

El Bishery adds that the execution of the agreement is divided into two phases; the first phase concludes the storage of the database and using ECC servers as production servers with a total contract value of 3.5 million Egyptian pounds.

While the second phase, requires increasing the number of servers in service to host the new applications that the post office will be carrying out in the future, starting from the e- governmental project to the financial services that the post office is planning to offer to the public audience. The value of this stage will be defined after supplying the required systems.

Egypt Cyber Center is one of the affiliates of National Telecommunications Corporation and its investment capital has reached 125 million Egyptian pounds and its storage capacity is 78 Terabyte (78 thousands gigabytes). Alexandria Port Authority and a number of local banks such as Cairo Bank and Commercial Egyptian Bank have signed a contract with National Telecommunication Corporation to host their data at Egypt Cyber Center, as they fear the occurrence of any failures in their servers and internal network.

Tamer Mahmoud Sale Manager of ECC adds saying that the center has the advantage of being fed from 4 different sources of power station, by using only one of them and the others work automatically in case of of any failures in the working station. Also there is an electric genertaor that works automatically if the 4 power stations breakdown with security cautions on the stored data to keep customers data safe from data loss and corruption.