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Abu Dhabi Culture & Heritage offered redundant architecture November 12, 2009 Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, the government department that manages Cultural & Heritage scenario in the emirate of Abu Dhabi has its online presence managed and hosted from ASPGulf’s state of the art Data Centre. Since the department undertakes and simultaneously manages multiple events which has international audience, service availability was of prime importance. ASPGulf teamed with the ADACH IT Team, web application developers and offered a high available web hosting platform with primary web infrastructure deployed from ASPGulf Data Center facility. The solution was architected based on various parameters which was in sync with department’s IT strategy while not compromising on security or service standards. After conducting profound analysis through several meetings with the ADACH team, ASPGulf team succeeded in creating an innovative architectural concept for ADACH in building up a suitable mirror site infrastructure. The architecture constitutes of fully managed mirror sites to for user load distribution and DNS Fail Over implementation for addressing the network and internet availability. About ADACH: The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) is the institution in charge of conserving and promoting the heritage and culture of Abu Dhabi. Established in October 2005 as an authority of the Government of Abu Dhabi, it is administered by a board of directors chaired by H. E. Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan.
ASPGulf renews commitment to quality by recertifying ISO 9001: 2008 October 19, 2009 ASPGulf has successfully re-certified ISO 9001:2008 for the second term after three years from when it was initially audited. The objectives for certification were higher customer satisfaction, effective processing, improved services, and addressing changing market needs. The ISO 9000 certification standardizes, organizes and controls operations; it provides consistent dissemination of information and a platform for continual improvement. ASPGulf are focused on providing customers reliable services they can depend on. Quality Management Clients are increasingly becoming quality-conscious and it has form a part of their due diligence to know up front whether the services that are offered meet their needs. A certified Quality Management System demonstrates your commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. ASPGulf a subsidiary of Al Bawardi Technology Group was the first data centre in the Middle East to achieve official International Standardization Organization (ISO) 9001:2000. Now with expansion of three Data Centre foot prints in UAE, ASPGulf has further reassured to Clients, Partners, well-wishers and the community itself of its commitment to quality by getting this re-certification. About ISO 9001 An ISO 9001:2008 certificate proves that your Quality Management System has been certified against a best practice standard and found compliant. Issued by a third party certification body/registrar, the certificate lets customers know they can trust that you have implemented the necessary internal processes to meet obligations. The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the source of the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families of quality and environmental management standards and some 14 000 International Standards for business, government and society. ISO is a network of national standards institutes from more than 140 countries working in partnership with international organizations, governments, industry, business and consumer representatives.
ASPGulf re-introduces hosted Exchange with 2007 edition August 15, 2009 ASPGulf has successfully re-launched messaging industry’s front runner Microsoft Exchange 2007 on a shared platform. Exchange 2000 was delivered on Citrix platform back in year 2000 when the company was launched and our Client/users ever since have been migrated to latest versions with the re-launch. Exchange 2007 is deployed on Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) which offers higher service availability and on state-of-the-art hardware infrastructure. The rich in-house Exchange skills combined with the redundant architectural deployment offers a robust and trouble free messaging experience to our Clients. The service also includes a perimeter level security on the messaging which filters and protect the mailing system from any form of malware, spam and viruses. About Microsoft Exchange MS Exchange is by far the largest corporate messaging platform across the world (from 29% in 2005 to 39% in 2009 Installed Base). Its unique user friendly features at the same time meeting corporate business requirements such as emails, Calendar sharing, Global Catalogue, Public folders, Active Sync, and its integration with host of other applications either MS or non MS type have attracted SMB to Enterprise users to move on to MS Exchange as a corporate platform. Hosted Exchange Is ideally aimed for SMB segment where they do not invest on HW, SW and Skill set as it is deployed on fully redundant infrastructure and completely managed by ASPGulf’s highly experienced and certified team of professionals.
ASPGulf acquires CH2M Hill as one of its Client at the new Data Centre January 1, 2009 CH2M Hill headquartered near Denver, Colorado, an employee-owned global leader in engineering, procurement, construction, management and operations for government, civil, industrial and energy clients. With $5.8 billion in revenue and more than 25,000 employees, CH2M Hill is an industry-leading program management, construction management and design firm, as ranked by Engineering News-Record (2008). The firm's work is concentrated in the areas of energy, water, transportation, environmental, nuclear and industrial facilities. The firm has long been recognized as a most-admired company and leading employer, including being named by FORTUNE as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For and one of America's Most Admired Companies (2008). Ch2M Hill in one of its government Client, Emirates Nuclear Energy Commission (ENEC) located in Abu Dhabi is hosting their complete backend server infrastructure comprising of HP Servers, Sun Servers and EMC Storage in a redundant and virtualized environment mode housed on two 47U Racks. The managed and hosted application suite includes GIS, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server portal, Exchange 2007, Oracle Apps, Primavera and some bespoke vertical applications. Currently ASPGulf is providing managed services to CH2M which consisted of the following:
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Abu Dhabi Culture & Heritage offered redundant architecture
November 12, 2009
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, the government department that manages Cultural & Heritage scenario in the emirate of Abu Dhabi has its online presence managed and hosted from ASPGulf’s state of the art Data Centre. Since the department undertakes and simultaneously manages multiple.....
ASPGulf renews commitment to quality by recertifying ISO 9001: 2008
October 19, 2009
ASPGulf has successfully re-certified ISO 9001:2008 for the second term after three years from when it was initially audited. The objectives for certification were higher customer satisfaction,...
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