GEC NEWS WIREEMC Middle East revealed a landmark project with the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK). USEK selected EMC’s storage in addition to data protection and availability solutions to digitally preserve over 10,000 of the region’s oldest and rarest manuscripts and archives.
USEK selected EMC Isilon scale-out NAS; EMC VNX unified storage ; EMC Data Domain and EMC NetWorker to embark on a landmark initiative to create a secure, reliable digital archive of valuable icons of human history available. To make this archive available to students and academicians anytime, anywhere, USEK also successfully initiated an ambitious virtual desktop project powered on EMC XtremIO 5.0
Zaid Eid, IT Director, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik said, “Prior to this project, we had islands of storage. Data was scattered across the organization and often difficult to access. Moreover, we lacked a robust back up process. It wasn’t the ideal environment to help us drive our vision in order to protect our precious heritage so that people from around the region and the world could have access to rich stores for learning for generations to come.”
Joe Aboujamra, Country Manager, Lebanon at EMC said, “EMC is proud to be a part of this strategic, national endeavor that is built on the foundation to preserve and protect some of the oldest and most valuable manuscripts known to this region.”
