Datacenter & Disaster Recovery for Finance Company in Oman

About the Company

Over the past two decades, this finance company in Oman has become a leader in vehicle, equipment, and business financing.

• Number of Branches: 8
• Number of Customers: 12,000
• Services offered: Vehicle, Equipment and Business Finance

Requirement

As the company is growing in number of customers, transactions, and venturing into new business areas, management decided to upgrade their technology (to ORACLE FLEXCUBE). They required the setup of a Primary Datacenter and a Disaster Recovery Site to ensure redundancy and business continuity.

• Key Goal: Most cost-effective, yet no compromise on performance.

Our Methodology

1. Discussing with Application Partners and arriving on appropriate Infra sizing.
2. Creating BOM (Bill of Materials) from the Sizing sheet.
3. Preparing the Network Design.
4. Delivery and Deployment of the Hardware.
5. Virtualisation and Operating System Deployment.
6. Network Configuration & Firewall Policy Creation.
7. Finetuning the Infra as per Application demands.

Conclusion

We implemented the solution in a short duration and at the lowest possible cost. Cost savings were achieved due to our global presence (UAE team handled hardware, Kuwait engineer handled deployment) and technical expertise in Opensource Solutions (zero licensing cost). Subject Matter Experts from our Indian office handled remote configurations, virtualisation, and OS installations, avoiding physical travel where possible.