Ajman Bank Redefines Service Infrastructure with EMC
Ajman, United Arab Emirates. Wednesday, 24th June 2015. Ajman Bank, the award-winning financial services institution committed to transforming the experience of Islamic banking, has announced the selection of “EMC Corporation” to redefine its IT infrastructure in a bid to reinforce the bank’s vision to transform the experience of Islamic banking for customers across the country.
Ajman 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 will further reinforce this deployment with EMC next generation Data Protection solutions to avail the benefits of a centralized, backup, archiving and recovery environment. It is already in the process of deploying “EMC Data Domain” systems together with “EMC Networker” to enable continuous data protection and disaster recovery to allow uninterrupted access to applications and services. And with both EMC SourceOne & Centera, the bank has better protection over its critical data.
Commenting on this agreement, Mr. Hisham Hamoud, EVP – Chief Business Officer of Ajman Bank said: “Our partnership with “EMC” goes well beyond IT; it is a step towards our vision to transform the delivery of Islamic banking services and improve the overall experience for our customers across the country. A truly consolidated IT infrastructure is instrumental to our ability to meet the ever growing demands from consumers who need secure, uninterrupted access to financial services and products anytime, anywhere, while providing a safe and reliable transaction environment.
From his side, Mr. Habib Mahakian, Regional General Manager, Gulf and Pakistan at EMC Corporation said: “Ajman Bank continues to lead the country’s financial services sector with their ambitious business strategy that is further reinforced IT transformation initiatives. With EMC VNX, Ajman Bank has created the unified and reliable service infrastructure to ensure that they are able to effectively extend the host of world-class products and services to an ever expanding customer base across the UAE. We look forward to continuing on this exciting journey of growth, as the bank continues to establish the data protection environment that will further reinforce the consolidated storage environment to enhance backup and archiving capabilities that remain critical to provide an outstanding and completely trusted financial service offering.”
About EMC:
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
About Ajman Bank:
Ajman Bank is a young, agile Islamic commercial bank built on the values of integrity, trust and transparency. The bank provides a wide range of value-driven banking services in the UAE for individual, business and government clients, all in compliance with Shariah principles. Ajman Bank seeks out the market’s best products, people and technology in order to deliver what customers want, how they want it, delivering real value and recreating that human touch lost in modern banking.
Headquartered in Ajman and strongly supported by its government, Ajman Bank is the keystone of the emirate’s economic development strategy and is in a position to benefit from its growth and potential like no other. Ajman Bank is committed to becoming a sustainable organization in its truest sense, balancing care for the community and employees with the business of delivering value to its shareholders and customers.
