Ooredoo Launches Managed Storage, Backup Services for Businesses

Doha, June 03 (QNA) - Ooredoo has on Wednesday announced the launch of an enhanced managed backup and managed storage service for businesses in Qatar, the latest in a series of new services targeting the small- and medium-sized business sector as the company continues to enhance the range of options available for organizations of all sizes. Ooredoo has long provided cutting-edge bespoke storage and backup services for companies at its world-class network of Ooredoo Data Centers. The new solution is designed as a standardized turnkey solution for businesses that require remote data protection easily and cost-effectively, without having to invest in infrastructure. Hosted at the Ooredoo Data Center, the solution offers automated backup and flexible recovery options for all enterprise data, ranging from operating systems to virtual environments, databases, email and ERP applications. By deploying the solution, businesses benefit from highly-available, highly-scalable data backup and storage, with optional local and remote data protection for server systems located in the Qatar Data Center. Solutions range from storage for production databases, to low-cost storage for web content, text files, images, and other shared or archived data. With the managed storage service, customers can benefit from simple modular purchasing model, centralized data storage for building private clouds, better capacity management and planning, and highly available uptime and scalable capacity. The Ooredoo managed backup service can be deployed in tandem with the Ooredoo managed storage service. It provides immediate access to a range of features, including connection to the enterprise backup infrastructure, support for rapid enterprise data growth and associated overflow as well as long term archival of critical records. The new services are ideal for organizations in Qatar that don't have the extensive resources necessary to manage a storage and backup infrastructure in-house, relieving them of the burden of procuring and operating complex storage systems. To ensure affordability for customers, Ooredoo offers the services on a fully-managed basis with a flexible consumption model and cost structure, so that customers don't incur any capital expenditure and virtually no operational headaches when they migrate their data to the Ooredoo Data Center. Ooredoo Data Centers provide a full range of services including hosting and co-location, cloud services, web content delivery, data backup and restoration, business continuity and disaster recovery, infrastructure monitoring and management and IT security for businesses. Ooredoo is a leading international communications company delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet and corporate managed services tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses across markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. As a community-focused company, it is guided by its vision of enriching people's lives and its belief that it can stimulate human growth by leveraging communications to help people achieve their full potential. It has a presence in markets such as Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, the Maldives, Myanmar and Indonesia. (QNA)