ME Bank gets DR Suite

INDIA: Sanovi Technologies, a player in the Disaster Recovery Management and business continuity field, has announced the successful first phase of implementation of its Sanovi DRM Suite for Bahrain-based Ahli United Bank.

Ahli United Bank (AUB) is one of the Middle East's banking groups, with operations spanning Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Egypt and the United Kingdom. 

"We are pleased with our choice of Sanovi DR Management software.  Sanovi provides real time view of our current applications conditions at the DR/BCP facilities, ensuring that all of our critical applications are recovery ready at all times while requiring minimal additional investment in terms of human resources," said Ehab Eshehawi, Head of the IT Infrastructure, Ahli United Bank.

"AUB is known to be focused on maintaining best in class operational standards and procedures, and Sanovi, for its part, simply proposed the optimal DR solution to ensure DR readiness for AUB's critical business applications, thereby reducing operational costs and ensuring seamless DRM adoption", says P P Subramanian, President  & CEO, Sanovi Technologies.

"Sanovi DRM enables the bank to have a single console to monitor and manage all their DR solutions. IT gets a single operational interface and gets alerts on deviations that may impact the recovery readiness of DR solutions."

Sanovi offers solutions to proactively manage disaster recovery (DR) environments to ensure that business applications can be recovered in compliance with service level agreements, as added in the note.

This is the first major client implementation for Sanovi Technologies in the Middle East and the focus will be to look at other institutions and corporations in the region.