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Kuwait Finance House-Bahrain's (KFH-Bahrain) managing director and CEO, Abdulhakeem Alkhayyat, opened a new state-of-the-art data centre in Bahrain.
The official inauguration of the centre is in line with the bank's strategic expansion plans to provide world-class banking services with maximum security and backup of all its day-to-day transactions. The event was attended by the bank's executive management, dignitaries and external consultants.
The purpose-built and scalable dedicated facility makes KFH-Bahrain the first bank to have an in-kingdom virtualisation technology which is capable of providing a fault tolerant, dependable and interruption free operation.
The data centre infrastructure is based on an integrated rack, power and cooling solution complete with advanced management and monitoring hardware and software. It will significantly improve overall reliability and accessibility with complete network redundancy, EMC data storage within a VMware virtualisation environment.
Mr Alkhayyat expressed his deep satisfaction with this achievement and hailed it as a milestone for the bank. He said: "The bank is always willing to adopt the latest innovations and technologies that would help retain our clients' trust by improving our services.
"The data centre represents a major achievement in our strategy to leverage advanced technologies for the benefit of our customers and to position KFH-Bahrain for future growth. We now have a technology model that will improve productivity, enhance reliability and help reduce the impact of the external environment on our operations."
