Neverfail®, a leading global software company providing affordable continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that ARABSAT, a satellite operator in the Telecom vertical, has implemented Neverfail for Exchange to provide continuous e-mail availability to its users.
ARABSAT is highly dependent upon e-mail as its primary source of communication for its worldwide employees and day-to-day operations with vendors. Should e-mail downtime occur, this would create serious financial and business issues for ARABSAT. This fact prompted the company to select Neverfail as the solution of choice to provide robust and reliable Disaster Recovery/High Availability for its e-mail services.
“Neverfail was the perfect solution to ensure that our employees have continuous availability to e-mail.” said Bassam Al-Ashqar, Director of Information Technology, Arab Satellite Communications Organization.
“Previously, we did not have a disaster recovery solution in place; however, we do have a business goal to provide 24x7 availability for all mission-critical systems by the end of 2009. During our research into various Disaster Recovery and High Availability solutions, we did not find anything that matched the functionality and features of Neverfail. We ultimately chose Neverfail for its high availability, data protection, business continuity, proactive monitoring and technical support. The company’s experience and partnership with Microsoft as well as its overall technical and business reputation was also a deciding factor in our purchase.” he added.
Founded in 1976 by the 21 member states of the Arab League, Arabsat has been serving the growing needs of the Arab World for over 30 years. Now ranked as one of the world’s 9th largest satellite operators and by far the leading satellite services provider in the Arab World, it reaches millions of homes in over 80 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Europe and beyond. Arabsat currently carries 340+ TV channels and keeps expanding its services in order to meet the evolving needs of its customers. With an audience of 164 Million viewers in the Arab world alone
Arabsat is committed to stay at the forefront of satellite services in the region, continuously expanding its range of customer-oriented solutions with an unparalleled level of quality, bringing in cutting-edge technology, providing the largest-ever amount of capacity which positions it to become the HD-TV portal of the Middle East, and meeting the growing and evolving needs of its customers across the Arab World, Sub Sahara, large portions of Europe and West Asia.
Only Neverfail provides a high availability solution that proactively monitors the entire Exchange mail server environment, including server hardware, the network infrastructure, operating systems and the Microsoft Exchange application. If a problem occurs, Neverfail takes a variety of preemptive and corrective actions. If a full system failover happens, Neverfail performs a graceful switchover to the secondary Exchange server automatically, ensuring disaster recovery and continuous data protection.
