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MUSCAT — A new data centre that will provide a backup system for government IT departments will start functioning at Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM), Oman’s only IT Park, within a year.

The deal for setting up the ‘Government Data Centre’ (GDC), one of the components of the country’s ambitious ‘Digital Oman’ drive, was signed here between the Information Technology Authority (ITA) and Mideast Data Systems (MDS). GDC, involving a cost of more than RO5.6 million, will provide a multi-tenant Tier 4 level data centre for government IT departments to host their backup systems, with the objective to achieve improved business continuity for their various IT systems.

The agreement was signed by Mohammed bin Nasser Al Khusaibi, Secretary-general of the Ministry of National Economy and Chairman of ITA, with Alain Sawaya, General Manager of MDS-Oman. The establishment of a government data centre was first mooted by ITA in 2006 and proposals submitted by MDS were accepted.

“The GDC initiative achieves redundancy at all stages, and is intended to be third party certified for highest availability,” Dr. Salim Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of ITA, said. “It is also designed in such a way that it will integrate seamlessly within the government network to effectively position the Government GDC as a service available on the government network,” he added. GDC will establish a common secure facility for housing government IT systems with a professionally set up infrastructure with Tier-4 availability, Ruzaiqi said.

Very cool, an interesting read and the article illustrates the opportunities for data centers, for IT infrastructure in the middle east, do check it out.

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