KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, formed a strategic partnership with Kuwait Credit Bank (KCB), EBLA Computer Consultancy, and Microsoft Kuwait, to enable the disaster recovery backup system project outside Kuwait using Microsoft’s cloud services, enabling KCB to retrieve its vital data from the cloud during unexpected emergencies.
The project launch ceremony witnessed the attendance of Kuwait Credit Bank’s Vice Chairman and Managing Director Salah Al-Mudhaf, Zain Kuwait’s Chief Corporate Communications and Relations Officer Waleed Al-Khashti, EBLA Computer Consultancy’s Chief Executive Officer Hilal Arnaout, and Microsoft Kuwait’s Government Sector Manager Ali Haddad. The ceremony also witnessed the presence of KCB’s Information Systems team, as well as Business and Government Relations teams from the partners.
Kuwait Credit Bank’s Vice Chairman and Managing Director Salah Al-Mudhaf expressed his pleasure on the occasion of launching KCB’s Disaster Recovery Backup Site project in collaboration with Microsoft and Dell EMC.
In a press statement following the project launch ceremony, Al-Mudhaf commented: “the finalization of the Disaster Recovery Backup Site project marks our second disaster and emergency site, as the first site was built in Kuwait a year ago, and is fully equipped to exactly match the main site, working in parallel with it around the clock and all year-round”.
Al-Mudhaf explained: “the second disaster recovery backup site exclusively saves a backup of our data on Microsoft’s cloud (outside Kuwait), making KCB one of the first entities in Kuwait to have a disaster and emergency backup site on the cloud. This also makes KCB the first institution in the State of Kuwait to use Microsoft’s Avamar Backup Cloud Technology in collaboration with Dell EMC”.
Al-Mudhaf stressed that the new project will ensure the continuation of KCB’s offering of its services to the citizens of Kuwait with the same high efficiency in all circumstances and situations. The project will allow KCB to face any attempts to sabotage its equipment, systems, and networks, while maintaining the safety and security of all its data.
At the same time, Al-Mudhaf pointed out that the project comes as part of KCB’s efforts to keep up with the latest technological advancements: “the bank’s executive management is keen on implementing saving policies by migrating all staff’s emails to Microsoft’s Office 365 service on the cloud, which alone saves nearly KD 20,000 annually for every 500 users”.
Al-Mudhaf explained that the new feat is added to KCB’s long list of achievements, as well as to the successes of the Information Systems team, whom along the years held the responsibility of transforming the bank’s transactions from paper to digital. The team also succeeded in preparing and defending the bank’s data networks against cyberattacks, an achievement that received great praise from various related entities.
Al-Mudhaf thanked the bank’s Information Systems Center for its great and continuous efforts, as well as the Council of Ministers’ Central Agency for Information Technology for their support to finalize the disasters and emergency site project.
