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“Thanks to this project we will be able to quickly continue working in the
event of the head oice experiencing any kind of disaster. Sta will be
able to reach the recovery centre in under an hour, which will allow various
departments, including editing, distribution and advertising, to continue
working without noticeable disruption.”
– Khaled Al Harbi, IT manager, Okaz Organization for Press and Publication
Industry
Media and publishing
Case study
Okaz Organization for
Press and Publication
“We also wanted the centre to hold a backup
of the organisation’s data which will soon
include a full digital archive of all the issues
going back around fifty years, representing
the heritage of Okaz Organization for Press
and Publication.”
The company decided to site the disaster
control building in King Abdullah Economic
City because of the city’s importance as
the leading economic area in Saudi Arabia
as well as its proximity to the company’s
headquarters in Jeddah. Al Harbi explains:
“Sta will be able to reach the disaster
control centre in King Abdullah Economic
City to continue the business in no more
than an hour.
“The disaster control centre houses a
miniature version of the head oice.
A number of employees work there
permanently, including an oice manager,
an advertising manager and a distribution
manager. There will also be an IT team
on-site in both oices. We wanted to use
the best possible technology to ensure the
success of this project so we chose Hewlett
Packard Enterprise to implement it.”
Solution
Best technology available
Explaining the reasons for their choice,
Al Harbi says: “HPE has oered solutions
to Okaz Organization for Press and
Publication for ten years and we have
an excellent relationship with them. We
are impressed by their unique after-sales
services and their support team was very
helpful during the negotiations and after
signing the agreement. HPE oered a lot
of choices and solutions which helped
us to select what we needed and HPE
Technology Services stood out from the
competition because of the speed of their
bid submission, the speed of implementation
and the high quality of the products,
programs and support.”
If the head oice should experience any
problems, the system will automatically
failover the business data to the disaster
recovery building without alerting the
end-users. Twelve new HPE BL460 Gen9
servers will provide high-speed computing
performance and 24 virtual machines will
be created.