Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier has selected Symantec Corp for its archiving and recovery solutions.

Symantec will deploy its NetBackup and Enterprise Vault products to increase productivity.

Maher Salman Al Musallam, Gulf Air acting chief executive officer, stated: “Gulf Air’s commitment towards excellent passenger service is demonstrated in all layers of operations, and implementing state-of-the-art technologies like Symantec’s solutions are key components to ensure stability of our services.”

Dr Jassim Haji, Gulf Air director of information technology, said: “Following last year’s achievement in earning the prestigious ISO Certification for Gulf Air’s information security management system, we are aiming to become one of the leading airline carriers to offer the best IT solutions to enhance every passenger’s journey. As the data deluge trend continues to impact airlines across the world, the deployment of such advanced backup and archiving solutions further supports our promise to safeguard and govern critical business information.”

Dr Haji and his executive team at Gulf Air will significantly reduce the administration time spent to manage the enterprise backup by using Symantec’s solutions, relocating valuable human resource hours to meet other needs of the airline. The transition program began in July 2014.  
NetBackup is recognised as the market leader of enterprise backup and recovery software, and built to protect the largest and most demanding data centre environments. It also delivers breakthrough capabilities for virtualized systems that go well beyond what traditional backup practices can achieve. Enterprise Vault is the industry leader in archiving, enabling organizations to efficiently store, effectively manage, and easily discover and retrieve unstructured information as needed for business. – TradeArabia News Services