Ajman Bank Redefines Service Infrastructure with EMC

Adopts EMC VNX with a Flash 1st strategy to establish a unified and agile IT environment scaled to meet the needs of rapid business and customer growth

EMC Middle East an affiliate of EMC Corporation today announced that Ajman Bank, the award-winning Islamic financial services institution has selected EMC’s award winning storage solutions to redefine IT infrastructure in a bid reinforce the bank’s vision to transform the experience of Islamic banking for customers across the country.

The UAE’s first Shariah based Islamic bank has deployed EMC® and VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies to expedite operations and service delivery while enabling maximum scalability to meet rapid business growth.

The bank has selected EMC VNX® unified storage with the EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) Suite™ and EMC Unisphere to create the right IT environment to better support consistently growing data streams and better manage rapid customer growth.

Ajman Bank will further reinforce this deployment with EMC® next generation Data Protection solutions to avail the benefits of a centralized, backup, archiving and recovery environment. Ajman Bank is already in the process of deploying EMC Data Domain® systems together with EMC Networker® to enable cost-effective and continuous data protection and disaster recovery to facilitate uninterrupted access to applications and services. With EMC SourceOne and Centera, Ajman Bank can better protect critical data in order to keep up with internal governance and compliance policies in addition to meeting industry regulations.

Customer Benefits:

• Enhanced Performance- Using EMC VNX unified storage, Ajman Bank has successfully scaled it’s traditional siloed storage infrastructure to improve the performance of mission critical applications while meeting the demands for higher data availability
• FLASH 1st Strategy for Increased Efficiency- Using VNX together with EMC FAST Cache, the institution has successfully optimized storage utilization and reduced data center footprint by 50%.
• Simplified System Administration- EMC Unisphere included with VNX has helped Ajman Bank simplify management of its storage environment resulting in a 50% reduction in storage administration efforts and associated costs
• Enhanced Scalability- The deployment has enabled the bank to create a firm foundation for future business growth by enabling improved access to critical applications, enhanced visibility and scalability that allows 30% year on year growth in storage capacity.
• Rapid Provisioning- Through EMC’s Data Protection solutions, Ajman Bank can leverage the centralized single-console reporting and monitoring system to monitor the overall health of data protection environment and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Trusted Environment- With the Data Protection solutions, the bank can look forward to a tightly consolidated and unified backup, recovery and archiving environment to protect critical data and applications, while simultaneously meeting governance and compliance requirements.