Karachi : Pakistan mobile operator Telenor has completed a major overhaul of its information infrastructure, to replace legacy storage systems with solutions from EMC, says a press release.
The new integrated storage project will help Telenor to reduce infrastructure management costs, have more flexibility for growth, provide more robust levels of service and cut energy costs. EMC Pakistan built infrastructure project, which includes EMC VMAX Tiered Storage to consolidate existing differentstorage units at Telenor's site in Islamabad & EMC Symmetrix VMAX Storage, which will consolidate workloads with much smaller footprints, to give better performance and future scalability.
The project also implemented EMC SRDF/A for Disaster Recovery with which Telenor will be able to replicate its mission critical applications from Islamabad to Lahore across a distance of 400km, with a recovery point objective as low as one second, enabling zero data loss in the event of a regional disaster, even over extended distances. It also uses EMC Time Finder Clone Technology for fast data recovery, insuring local storage replication for increased application availability and faster data recovery.
"Telenor is Pakistan's second largest mobile operator; in 2009-10 we grew by adding subscribers at rate of 14%, highest in telecom industry for the year. EMC storage solutions will add efficiency, agility and scalability to our IT infrastructure while allowing us to maintain control and ensure security of our data", said Khaled Shehzad, chief technology officer, Telenor Pakistan.
