American multinational technology corporation Microsoft has launched its Azure Availability Zones in order to heighten the competitiveness of organizations in the UAE.
The company said that “the Azure Availability Zones will be delivered through its UAE data centers in Dubai.”
The launch intends to enhance the competitiveness of UAE businesses through the vital provision of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions and reinforces Microsoft’s commitment to the UAE government, its business community, and its population.
Naim Yazbeck General Manager Microsoft UAE
“With the advent of the always-on economy, uptime and continuous access to critical data, applications, and workloads have become front-of-mind concerns for the region’s technology stakeholders. As businesses move forward amid increased industry upheavals and competition from market disrupters, competitiveness hinges on the ability to remain operational even as external issues destabilize markets and supply chains. Backups alone will not deliver such capabilities. Rapid recovery requires strategy-focused infrastructure and solutions to work effectively. That is what Azure Availability Zones delivers.”
Azure Availability Zones is a critical building block of comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. It is designed to guarantee resilience and availability of business-critical applications and data in times of crisis, through advanced architecture and built-in, end-to-end security.
The launch of Azure Availability Zones also signifies the readiness of Microsoft’s UAE cloud locations to form the backbone of organizations’ futureproofing programs, undertaken in the wake of the COVID pandemic crisis.
Azure Availability Zones will build on the capabilities and benefits offered through Microsoft’s enterprise-grade data centers in Dubai, which began operations in June 2019.
As per the statement, “The facilities’ services have empowered several organizations to further increase their capacities and reimagine their operations. Among those that have already migrated to Microsoft Azure Availability Zones in the UAE are Emirates Group, Commercial Bank of Dubai, Mashreq Bank, and First Abu Dhabi Bank.”
“As an organization, we believe in the power of technology to deliver a smarter and more agile customer experience as well as enable our people to be dynamic and remain ahead of developments in our industry. The new availability zones will allow us to enhance the way we use Microsoft Cloud, offering us a greater level of data security, resilience, and flexibility, which in turn, will support our customer-centric ethos, and allow us to provide greater benefits for our clients,” commented Mr. Srinivasan Sampath, Acting Group Chief Technology Officer at First Abu Dhabi Bank.
