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Company Profile<br />

About <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong><br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> is a leading provider of<br />

Managed IT and Advisory Services and a fully<br />

owned subsidiary of TECOM Investments, a<br />

member of Dubai Holding. Our State-of-the-<br />

Art Data Centres are the backbone of our IT<br />

infrastructure on the basis of which we deliver<br />

high quality Managed IT Services to our clients.<br />

Our customer centric approach, technical<br />

expertise and adherence to international standards<br />

and best practices have attracted leading<br />

companies to trust and rely on our competencies<br />

and service delivery capabilities.<br />

Facts<br />

• Fully owned subsidiary of TECOM<br />

Investments (member of Dubai Holding)<br />

• Leading Managed IT & Advisory Services<br />

Provider (As per IDC)<br />

• Founded in 2001 – Established Managed<br />

Services portfolio<br />

• Global clients across various verticals<br />

• Regional presence within GCC &<br />

International presence in Europe through our<br />

partner network<br />

• Owns and operates State-of-the-Art Data<br />

Centres (24x7 operations and management)<br />

• Adherence to International Standards focusing<br />

on Service Level Management – ITIL,<br />

ISO9001, ISO20000, BS25999, ISO27001<br />

etc.<br />

Services Portfolio<br />

We offer a complete stack of Managed IT<br />

Services ranging from Dedicated Servers to<br />

a Fully Managed Services option whereby a<br />

customer’s entire IT infrastructure is managed<br />

right from the Data Centre up to the Application<br />

layer and everything in between (including<br />

Network, Servers, Storage, Backup, Security<br />

etc.).<br />

Our Services portfolio includes:<br />

• Co-location / Managed Co-location<br />

• Managed Hosting<br />

o Dedicated Servers<br />

o Managed Services<br />

- Managed Security<br />

- Managed Databases<br />

- Managed Storage<br />

- Managed Backup and Restore<br />

- Managed Exchange<br />

- IT Administration<br />

• Consulting and Advisory Services – Security,<br />

Vulnerability & Risk Assessment, Business<br />

Impact Analysis<br />

• Data Centre Auditing and Consulting<br />

• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity


Industry Experience<br />

• Financial and Banking<br />

• Government<br />

• IT<br />

• Electronics<br />

• Telecom<br />

• Aviation<br />

• Retail<br />

• Real Estate / Construction<br />

• Media & Entertainment<br />

Standards & Certifications<br />

• Quality: ISO 9001<br />

• Environment Management System: ISO 14001<br />

• Health and Safety Standard: ISO 18001<br />

• IT Service Management (ITSM): ISO 20000<br />

• Information Security Management Systems<br />

(ISMS): ISO 27001<br />

• Business Continuity Management: BS 25999<br />

• ITIL v3<br />

People<br />

Domain Expertise: Every industry has its<br />

distinctive challenges and requirements. Based<br />

on our experience with customers across multiple<br />

vertical sectors, we have developed domain<br />

expertise around diverse industries. We have<br />

first-hand knowledge of real industry challenges<br />

across various industry verticals which enable us<br />

to design industry-specific solutions that leverage<br />

industry best practices.<br />

Technology Expertise: We have professionals<br />

who have accrued an array of expertise<br />

around various technologies and understand<br />

the business benefits of adopting the right<br />

technology. Coupled with our technology<br />

partnerships, our people skill sets are aligned<br />

to the market demands and we continuously<br />

innovate upon our existing products<br />

and services to ensure the most optimal<br />

performance following the best service<br />

delivery practices. Our staff is certified and<br />

trained regularly on the latest technologies so<br />

that they understand business requirements<br />

effectively and are able to architect solutions<br />

with the right technology available in the market.<br />

Processes<br />

We have well defined comprehensive<br />

processes to ensure best-in-class Service<br />

Delivery and Service Support. We have<br />

applied industry best practices for IT Service<br />

Management and ITIL to enhance value for<br />

our customers.<br />

Service Delivery<br />

With increased reliance on information<br />

technology, customers’ expectations from IT<br />

systems have increased. We offer customer<br />

focused solutions with emphasis on delivering<br />

high quality service experience backed by<br />

measurable Service Level Agreements (SLAs).


Service Support<br />

Our 24x7 Service Desk provides a central<br />

point of contact between customers and our IT<br />

organisation. It encompasses a range of services<br />

reaching beyond the typical Help Desk,<br />

including:<br />

• Ability to process incidents and complaints<br />

• Process Change and Service Requests using<br />

IT service management processes i.e. Release<br />

Management, Configuration Management,<br />

Problem Management etc.<br />

• Call & ticket management functions<br />

• Our Service Desk encompasses a Call Centre<br />

and Help Desk activities, which shortens the<br />

incident lifecycle efficiently<br />

Project Management<br />

We have a strong team of highly skilled,<br />

experienced Project Managers who have<br />

implemented complex projects providing clients<br />

value added benefits such as risk management,<br />

clear communication and greater visibility<br />

throughout the project life cycle.<br />

Technology<br />

We have invested in the latest technologies<br />

to support our best-in-class Data Centre<br />

infrastructure. Being the leading service provider<br />

of the region catering to diverse requirements, we<br />

adopt latest technologies and continue to innovate<br />

in order to ensure greater customer satisfaction.<br />

Coupled with the right technology partnerships,<br />

our Data Centres are designed to handle new<br />

technological demands and respond to future<br />

computing trends such as virtualization and<br />

cloud computing.<br />

Value Proposition<br />

Core Business Focus: Customers are able to offload<br />

their operational and mundane IT tasks to<br />

a third party IT service provider so that they can<br />

focus on their core-business, allowing the time<br />

and opportunity to identify means by which they<br />

can increase their bottom line.<br />

Competitive Pricing: Achieving high density<br />

computing, a fully redundant Data Centre, a<br />

highly secured environment and an efficient<br />

cooling system are just some of the innovations<br />

whereby we ensure that customers are able<br />

to enjoy Managed Services at the best value<br />

possible. Through investing in a highly qualified<br />

team of engineers and consultants, we are able to<br />

leverage specialized skills to design and deploy<br />

intelligent solutions that will ensure optimum<br />

utilization of the latest technology infrastructure<br />

resulting in tremendous cost savings compared to<br />

doing it in-house.<br />

High Service Levels: We offer high service<br />

levels, which can be measured by industry<br />

leading Service Level Agreements (SLAs). We<br />

have a dedicated Service Account Management


(SAM) team who manage customer SLAs and<br />

act like the customers’ representative within<br />

the organisation for issues related to Change<br />

Management, Incident Management etc. In doing<br />

so, standards like ISO 20000 is just one industry<br />

certification demonstrating our commitment to<br />

best practices in IT Service Management to satisfy<br />

the service quality requirements of customers.<br />

Customers<br />

We cater to Small, Medium and Large enterprises<br />

and have customers across vertical segments<br />

including Government, Finance and Banking, IT,<br />

Telecom, Media, etc.<br />

Some of these include:<br />

• Abu Dhabi Media Company<br />

• Algebra Capital<br />

• du<br />

• Dubai Airport Freezone Authority<br />

• Dubai Cares<br />

• Dubai E-Government<br />

• Dubai Government Media Office<br />

• Dubai World Trade Centre<br />

• Dunia Finance<br />

• EastNets<br />

• Emirates Airlines<br />

• Emirates eGovernment<br />

• Emirates Identity Authority<br />

• Forbes Middle East<br />

• FVC Inc.<br />

• JRG International Brokerage<br />

• Jumeirah Group<br />

• Khaleej Times<br />

• Majid Al Futtaim Group<br />

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br />

• Ministry of Public Works<br />

• Panasonic<br />

• Security Lab<br />

• SNTTA Emir Tours<br />

• SPICA<br />

• Societe Generale Bank<br />

• Tejari<br />

• Trimex<br />

• World’s largest steel company Arcelor Mittal<br />

Customer Testimonials<br />

“We are very pleased with the<br />

implementation. <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> met<br />

our unique requirements, which needed<br />

eHDF to change their data centre design.<br />

Our processes require high density of power<br />

and cooling, and therefore huge effort was<br />

required from eHDF to make core design<br />

changes to its facility. The project outcome<br />

was exactly how we planned it to be.<br />

Planning was very detailed and the project<br />

was managed based on the Jumeirah Project<br />

Management framework.”<br />

David Teklit, Group Director of Information<br />

Technology, Infrastructure and IT operations,<br />

Jumeirah Group.


“Emirates has great confidence in the services<br />

provided by <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong>. This will prove a<br />

win-win partnership for both organisations. As we<br />

grow our business and refine our operations, this<br />

partnership will allow our customers to enjoy a<br />

seamless travel booking experience with Emirates and<br />

will drive up their satisfaction in dealing with us.”<br />

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum,<br />

Chairman, Emirates Group<br />

“We are extremely glad to have SPICA and <strong>eHosting</strong><br />

<strong>DataFort</strong> as our strategic partners for the portal<br />

project. SPICA has helped us design the website<br />

and manage high quality content and updates for<br />

the portal. With the confidentiality of government<br />

data being particularly critical and the need for<br />

storing the data within the UAE, we found a trusted<br />

hosting partner in eHDF. With different embassies<br />

operating in different time zones, 24x7 availability<br />

was imperative. eHDF’s reliable and redundant data<br />

centre infrastructure and service level agreements<br />

have helped achieve this objective.<br />

Dr Saeed K Al Dhaheri, Advisor of Information<br />

Systems, UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br />

“The Disaster Recovery (DR) solution from<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong>, has helped us optimise our costs<br />

and has provided Societe Generale high return on<br />

investment. We are now assured of a secure and<br />

reliable hosting Site for our DR infrastructure.”<br />

Abdul-Mannan Contractor, Chief Technology<br />

Officer - Middle East, Societe Generale<br />

“We are extremely pleased with the<br />

design, implementation, and the ongoing<br />

management of the overall solution.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> completely understands<br />

our requirements to access sensitive data<br />

with a framework having the highest levels<br />

of security. Thanks to a trusted local service<br />

provider, <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong>’s 24-hour service<br />

desk can ensure our queries are resolved<br />

quickly and to our level of satisfaction.”<br />

Zahra Al Aboodi, Executive Director for<br />

Housing and Urban Planning, Ministry of<br />

Public Works<br />

“Panasonic searched for a trusted and<br />

reliable service provider, who would<br />

ultimately take away the headache of<br />

managing its IT operations. eHDF proved<br />

itself to be an ideal fit for Panasonic. Being<br />

the region’s leading managed hosting service<br />

provider who had the expertise, latest<br />

infrastructural technology and commitment<br />

to IT operations, eHDF provided round<br />

the clock IT customer support and an<br />

impeccable Service Level Agreement to<br />

guarantee that Panasonic’s system would<br />

experience very low downtime, so that<br />

Panasonic’s business continues to run<br />

smoothly and seamlessly.”<br />

Sharjil Salem, Senior Manager, Infrastructure<br />

& Data Center - IT Department, Panasonic<br />

Marketing Middle East


“We decided to partner with <strong>eHosting</strong><br />

<strong>DataFort</strong> because of its experience in providing<br />

comprehensive IT outsourcing services to large<br />

organisations. It was imperative we chose a<br />

partner which has the know-how and necessary<br />

infrastructure and expertise to proactively manage<br />

our critical business systems on a 24x7 high<br />

availability basis. We are confident this agreement<br />

will prove beneficial to our business operations in<br />

the region.”<br />

Seiji Koyanagi, Managing Director,<br />

Panasonic Marketing Middle East<br />

Partners<br />

Strategic Technology Partners: We have<br />

developed strong business alliances and strategic<br />

partnerships with industry leaders to deliver top<br />

class services to our customers. These partnerships<br />

help us enhance our offerings and create industry<br />

specific, customer focused solutions. We have a<br />

wide network of strategic technology and channel<br />

partners including:<br />

• Sun<br />

• Du<br />

• Interoute<br />

• Double Take<br />

• Schnabel AG<br />

• Microsoft<br />

• EMC<br />

• BMC<br />

• Cisco<br />

• HP<br />

• IBM<br />

• Dell<br />

• GBM<br />

• Fujitsu Siemens<br />

• Arcsight<br />

• Kaspersky<br />

• BK Gulf<br />

• Trend Micro<br />

• VMware<br />

Why choose <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong>?<br />

Stability & Trust<br />

• Founded in 2001, we are one of the earliest<br />

Managed IT & Advisory Services Providers in<br />

the region<br />

• As a fully owned subsidiary of TECOM<br />

Investments we have the backing and support<br />

to ensure the success of our business thereby<br />

guaranteeing stability to all our customers<br />

Maturity of Service Portfolio<br />

• We have an established managed services<br />

portfolio and a large customer base including<br />

Small to Medium and Large enterprises<br />

• Complete stack of Managed Services


Industry Experience<br />

• We have a wide range of experience working<br />

with customers across various industry sectors<br />

like Financial & Banking, Government, IT,<br />

Electronics, Telecom, Aviation, Retail, Real Estate<br />

& Construction, Media & Entertainment etc.<br />

Infrastructure<br />

• Own and operate State-of-the-Art Tier 3 Data<br />

Centres<br />

• Fully redundant infrastructure that is reliable,<br />

scalable and secure<br />

• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity (DR<br />

& BC) Sites<br />

• 24x7 Operations and Management<br />

Alliances with market leaders<br />

• Regional presence within GCC & International<br />

presence in Europe through our partner network<br />

• Partnerships with the leading vendors across<br />

the globe including Cisco, Microsoft, HP,<br />

IBM, Dell, BMC, EMC etc. to provide holistic<br />

technology solutions to customers<br />

Standards & Certifications<br />

• Adherence to International Standards focusing<br />

on Service Level Management - ISO 9001,<br />

ISO 27001, ISO 20000, ISO 14001, ISO<br />

18001, ITIL, BS 25999 etc.<br />

• Industry leading SLAs to ensure uninterrupted<br />

delivery and optimum performance of IT<br />

systems and applications<br />

Skilled Resources<br />

• A team of domain and technical experts,<br />

highly knowledgeable, committed,<br />

experienced and completely focused on<br />

keeping your critical applications and<br />

infrastructure working 24x7<br />

Awards & Industry Recognition<br />

We have been recognized year on year as:<br />

• ‘Best Managed Services Provider’ – Network<br />

Middle East Innovation Awards (2011)<br />

• ‘Best Enterprise Service Provider’ in the ME<br />

region – Arab Technology Awards (2008, 2009<br />

& 2010)<br />

• ‘Best Managed Service Provider of the Year’ –<br />

Computer News ME ICT Achievement Awards<br />

(2010)<br />

• ‘Best Managed Service Provider of the Year’ –<br />

Network World Middle East Awards (2010)<br />

• ‘Best Colocation Facility Middle East’ – Data<br />

Centre Strategies Middle East Awards (2010)<br />

• ‘Most Innovative use of New Technology’ –<br />

Network Middle East Innovation Awards (2009)


About TECOM Investments<br />

TECOM Investments FZ LLC was established<br />

in the year 2005 to build, manage and<br />

develop the business parks vertical under<br />

Dubai Holding. The history of the company<br />

dates back even further to the year 2000,<br />

when its first Business Park, Dubai Internet<br />

City was launched.<br />

Over the years, the company has grown into<br />

a diversified conglomerate with strategic<br />

investments in sectors that contribute to the<br />

development of Dubai’s knowledge-based<br />

economy.<br />

Home to over 4,500 companies, including<br />

major multinationals and many of the<br />

Fortune 500 companies, TECOM Investments<br />

interests also include exclusive investments<br />

in high-growth sectors as well as ‘pure play’<br />

businesses.<br />

One of TECOM Investments’ largest portfolio<br />

companies is TECOM Business Parks. It<br />

comprises 10 business parks under five<br />

industry clusters across the information and<br />

communication technology (ICT), media,<br />

education, sciences, as well as manufacturing<br />

and logistics sectors.<br />

Dubai Internet City and Dubai Outsource<br />

Zone form the ICT Cluster, while Dubai<br />

Media City, Dubai Studio City and the<br />

International Media Production Zone make<br />

up the Media Cluster.<br />

Dubai Knowledge Village and Dubai<br />

International Academic City are part of the<br />

Education Cluster. Dubai Biotechnology and<br />

Research Park and Energy and Environment<br />

Park (ENPARK) compose the Science Cluster.<br />

Dubai Industrial City comes under the<br />

Manufacturing and Logistics Cluster of<br />

TECOM Business Parks.<br />

Building on its domestic success and vision<br />

for global expansion, TECOM Investments has<br />

conceptualised SmartCity, a venture that aims<br />

to develop knowledge industry townships<br />

worldwide. The foundation has already been<br />

laid with the development of SmartCity Malta<br />

and SmartCity Kochi.<br />

Apart from spurring cluster development by<br />

creating purpose-built facilities and working<br />

with the Dubai and Federal Governments to<br />

develop business-friendly policies and industry<br />

regulations, TECOM Investments also focuses<br />

on ‘pure play’ businesses.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> is a managed IT and<br />

advisory services provider. The latest addition<br />

to the TECOM Investments portfolio is Global<br />

Village, a unique destination for retail, cuisine<br />

and, entertainment.


Data Centre<br />

A High Available Environment for your IT Infrastructure<br />

Overview<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> has a State-of-the-Art Data<br />

Centre with unparalleled infrastructure. We<br />

provide a secure, high availability environment<br />

for your IT infrastructure and mission critical<br />

data and business applications. This results in<br />

lowered downtime, reduced overall operating<br />

costs and faster time to market.<br />

Founded in 2001, we have extensive experience<br />

and our Data Centres are the backbone of our<br />

co-location and managed hosting services and<br />

have been successfully driving many enterprise<br />

businesses. The Data Centre is governed by strict<br />

policies and certifications ensuring compliances<br />

for your hosted infrastructure.<br />

The State-of-the-Art Data Centre facilities give you:<br />

• High availability and guaranteed uptime<br />

• Security and reliability<br />

• Guaranteed SLAs ensuring high quality of<br />

service delivery<br />

• High responsiveness<br />

• Flexibility and scalability<br />

• High Return on Investment (ROI) and Low<br />

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)<br />

• 24x7 monitoring and support<br />

• Custom cage space as per specific business<br />

requirements<br />

Features<br />

Connectivity<br />

• Reliable, dedicated, high-speed Internet<br />

• High speed link over terrestrial cable<br />

routes<br />

• End-to-end redundancy from Internet link to<br />

core network delivery devices<br />

• Guaranteed SLAs for high availability<br />

Power<br />

• Totally redundant power systems ensure<br />

speed and performance optimization<br />

• Two separate power grids from different<br />

sources<br />

• Four independent Uninterruptible Power<br />

Supply (UPS) units to deliver backup<br />

power services and secure Data Centre<br />

systems from power fluctuations<br />

• Back-up Diesel Generator systems<br />

• Battery-based Emergency Lighting System<br />

activated when a power outage occurs<br />

Environment Control<br />

• Separate Air Conditioning System for<br />

every network and computer room of the<br />

Data Centre<br />

• Temperature and humidity controls<br />

• Directed airflow for optimum heat<br />

dissipation<br />

• N+1 redundant configuration


Space Flexibility<br />

• Business ready Data Centre with raised<br />

flooring<br />

• Combination of lockable rack cabinets and<br />

secure cages<br />

Building Management System (BMS)<br />

• Continuous surveillance and monitoring of all<br />

alerts and inputs received from the BMS<br />

• Proactive response mechanism for averting<br />

unstable Data Centre Environment<br />

Wiring, Cabling and Utility<br />

• Data cabling laid on cable trays under a<br />

raised floor<br />

• Separate layout of power and data cables<br />

• No water pipes within the Data Centre<br />

Physical Security and Access Control<br />

System<br />

• 24x7 Onsite physical security, including<br />

security guards, motion detectors, and<br />

security cameras<br />

• Entry control through access card and<br />

biometric access systems<br />

• Mandatory visitor registration, visitor escorts<br />

by authorized personnel and employee badge<br />

access<br />

• Individual cabinets with key, combination<br />

locks and card-key access<br />

• CCTV monitoring and recording in the<br />

Network Operations Centre (NOC) of all<br />

doors and critical areas<br />

Fire and Smoke Detection System<br />

• Early Warning System to detect potential<br />

fires before smoke or flames activate the<br />

normal Fire Alarm System<br />

• Fire Alarm System with buttons (triggers)<br />

installed at multiple locations in the Data<br />

Centre<br />

• Fire Damper System to limit the effect of any<br />

fire to the smallest area possible by avoiding<br />

the risk of fire spreading through ventilation<br />

tubes and air conditioning systems<br />

• Automatic clean gas agent fire suppression<br />

system in the case of a fire alarm<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Co-location<br />

Secure Co-location services in a State-of-the-Art Data Centre<br />

Overview<br />

What is Co-location?<br />

Co-location is the renting of physical space<br />

in a Service Provider’s premises. It allows an<br />

organisation to save money and focus on its<br />

core activities by hosting some or all of its IT<br />

infrastructure offsite instead of building and<br />

maintaining their own Data Centre or server<br />

rooms in-house.<br />

Our Offering<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> offers Co-location services in<br />

a State-of-the-Art Data Centre. You can house<br />

your IT equipment within our Data Centre, that<br />

boasts of a world-class infrastructure.<br />

Features<br />

Since customers have diverse requirements, we<br />

offer a range of flexible options, which include<br />

the following:<br />

1-Rack Cabinets<br />

Rack Cabinets Service provides racks in Stateof-the-Art<br />

Data Centre facilities for customers to<br />

re-locate their business critical IT Infrastructure<br />

(Servers, Network Equipments, Storage etc).<br />

In addition to the Data Centre infrastructure, the<br />

Rack Cabinets service offers:<br />

• Rack Space Services include lockable rack<br />

cabinets and 2 Access Cards per Rack<br />

Cabinet. This offering includes:<br />

1/3 Rack<br />

1/2 Rack<br />

Full Rack<br />

• Network Connectivity Services that<br />

provide access ports for dedicated<br />

infrastructure, high speed, fully<br />

redundant internet connectivity and<br />

public IP addresses (optional)<br />

• 24x7 Service Desk Support including a<br />

single point of contact for service and<br />

24x7 Service Support Requests<br />

• 24x7 Data Centre Access and access<br />

cards for up to 2 Authorized Customer<br />

Representatives (ACR)<br />

• Remote Hands service enables customers<br />

to use our Service Desk to act as your<br />

‘remote hands’. Our staff will be your<br />

remote hands for various tasks (i.e.<br />

physical server access, inspection of<br />

environment, loading and removing of<br />

tapes / CDs, physical server reboot etc.)<br />

• Service Account Management -<br />

Dedicated Service Account Managers to<br />

ensure quality of service delivery


2- Secure Cage<br />

The Secure Cage Service is defined as ‘an<br />

enclosed secured space along with its<br />

dedicated physical security and environmental<br />

control’.<br />

We can build Secure Cages to meet specific<br />

customer requirements for varying combinations<br />

of square footage, power, rack specifications and<br />

physical security devices.<br />

In addition to the Data Centre infrastructure,<br />

the Secure Cage Service also offers:<br />

remote hands for various tasks (i.e.<br />

physical server access, inspection of<br />

environment, loading and removing of<br />

tapes / CDs, physical server reboot etc.)<br />

• Service Account Management- Dedicated<br />

Service Account Managers to ensure<br />

quality of service delivery<br />

• Minimum Available Secure Cage space of<br />

100 sq-ft<br />

• Network Connectivity Services which<br />

provide access ports for dedicated<br />

infrastructure, high speed, fully redundant<br />

internet connectivity and public IP<br />

addresses (optional)<br />

• 24x7 Service Desk Support including a<br />

Single Point of Contact for Service and<br />

24x7 Service Support Requests<br />

• 24x7 Data Centre Access and access<br />

cards for up to 2 Authorized Customer<br />

Representatives (ACR)<br />

• Remote Hands service enables customers<br />

to use our Service Desk to act as your<br />

‘remote hands’. Our staff will be your


Benefits<br />

Lease vs. Build<br />

Building your own Data Centre can be an<br />

expensive proposition requiring huge capital<br />

investments and ongoing maintenance costs.<br />

With our co-location services, you can lease Data<br />

Centre space and convert capital expenditure<br />

(CAPEX) to operating expenditure (OPEX) with<br />

predictable monthly fees.<br />

Flexibility<br />

You can choose to co-locate only a part of<br />

your IT environment, e.g. mission critical data,<br />

business applications & applications that need<br />

more bandwidth, etc.<br />

Scalability<br />

The solution is flexible and provides complete<br />

control over your co-location needs because<br />

you can purchase the amount of space that you<br />

need today and scale it as your business grows<br />

without having to make additional capital<br />

investments.<br />

Reduced Time to Market<br />

Your IT requirements can be upgraded or<br />

scaled dynamically as per growing business<br />

needs. This reduces your time to market which<br />

is imperative in today’s fast growing business<br />

environment.<br />

Reduced Power Expenses<br />

Data Centres demand high power & cooling<br />

requirements & therefore attract huge capital &<br />

operating expenses. If your Data Centre is not<br />

fully utilized, you would be wasting a lot of<br />

power and money.<br />

Reduced Bandwidth Costs<br />

Our Data Centre has high speed redundant<br />

network bandwidth, attractively packaged to<br />

cater to varying customer requirements and you<br />

pay for only what you use.<br />

Reduced Downtime / High Availability<br />

In case of relocation of business premises or<br />

a disaster, your business experiences nearzero<br />

downtime. Data Centre infrastructure is<br />

built for high availability complying with the<br />

requirements of business applications.<br />

Enhanced Security<br />

With 24x7 physical security, building<br />

management systems, fire and smoke detection<br />

systems, CCTV monitoring and redundant UPS<br />

and backup generators, your critical data and<br />

applications are more secure than what you<br />

could match with in-house Data Centres.<br />

Service Level Agreements<br />

We provide guaranteed Service Level<br />

Agreements (SLAs) to ensure high quality of<br />

service.<br />

24x7 Operations<br />

The round-the-clock service desk ensures 24x7<br />

operations and monitoring.


Data Centre Infrastructure<br />

Environmental Control<br />

The Data Centre has a separate Air Conditioning<br />

System to guarantee the temperature and<br />

humidity requirements of the equipment.<br />

All systems such as UPS and backup<br />

generator are maintained on a regular<br />

basis following internationally regulated<br />

quality procedures.<br />

Redundant Power Connections<br />

Two separate feeds to the Data Centre from<br />

different directions.<br />

Fire & Smoke Detection Systems<br />

The Data Centres have early warning systems<br />

and fire alarm and suppression systems to detect<br />

potential fires.<br />

Building Management System<br />

To operate and monitor the systems and<br />

equipment within the Data Centre, a Building<br />

Management System (BMS) is used. The BMS is<br />

available for monitoring alerts, issue analysis and<br />

resolution of any problems arising at the Data<br />

Centres.<br />

24x7 Physical Security<br />

Your critical information and applications are<br />

protected with 24x7 physical security and<br />

CCTV monitoring systems. We have Emergency<br />

Lighting Systems and Access Control Systems for<br />

enhanced security.<br />

UPS and Diesel Generator Power<br />

Systems<br />

We have redundant UPS and back-up generators.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Managed Co-location<br />

Doing more than just co-location<br />

Overview<br />

What is Managed Co-location?<br />

Managed co-location is an extension to the<br />

traditional co-location where most of the<br />

capital expenses are offset by managed services<br />

charged on a monthly basis. You can opt for a<br />

mixed environment where specific services (i.e.<br />

Backup, Security, Databases, Monitoring etc.) are<br />

managed by service provider experts while you<br />

choose to retain the management of your hosted<br />

infrastructure and business applications.<br />

It is the right blend of having control over your<br />

core strategic IT infrastructure and avoiding the<br />

inconvenience of buying, deploying, expanding,<br />

monitoring and managing physical devices,<br />

network and Data Centres.<br />

Our offering<br />

Our Solution Design team will assist you<br />

in designing your Managed Co-location<br />

architectures to ensure the most optimum services<br />

around the hosted infrastructure.<br />

You get all the services and benefits of basic<br />

co-location services with the option to select<br />

from our portfolio of managed services such as<br />

additional security, monitoring and management<br />

that can be delivered from our state-of-the-art<br />

infrastructure within our universal Data Centre.<br />

Features<br />

Basic Services<br />

You can choose from the following basic<br />

services:<br />

1- Rack Cabinets<br />

Rack Cabinets Service provides racks in<br />

State-of-the-Art Data Centre facilities for<br />

customers to re-locate their business critical IT<br />

Infrastructure (Servers, Network Equipments,<br />

Storage etc.).<br />

In addition to the Data Centre infrastructure,<br />

the Rack Cabinets Service offers:<br />

• Rack Space Services that include lockable<br />

rack cabinets and 2 Access Cards per Rack<br />

Cabinet. This offering includes:<br />

1/3 Rack<br />

1/2 Rack<br />

Full Rack<br />

• Network Connectivity Services that<br />

provide access ports for Dedicated<br />

Infrastructure, high speed, fully redundant<br />

internet connectivity and public IP<br />

addresses (optional)<br />

• 24x7 Service Desk Support including a<br />

single point of contact for service and


24x7 Service Support Requests<br />

• 24x7 Data Centre Access and access<br />

cards for up to 2 Authorized Customer<br />

Representatives (ACR)<br />

• Remote Hands service enables customers to<br />

use our Service Desk to act as your ‘remote<br />

hands’. Our staff will be your remote hands<br />

for various tasks (i.e. Physical server access,<br />

inspection of environment, loading and<br />

removing of tapes / CDs, physical server<br />

reboot etc.)<br />

• Service Account Management - Dedicated<br />

Service Account Managers to ensure quality<br />

of service delivery<br />

2- Secure Cage<br />

The Secure Cage Service is defined as ‘an<br />

enclosed secured space along with its dedicated<br />

physical security and environmental control’.<br />

We can build Secure Cages to meet specific<br />

customer requirements for varying combinations<br />

of square footage, power, rack specifications and<br />

physical security devices.<br />

In addition to the Data Centre infrastructure, the<br />

Secure Cage Service also offers:<br />

• Minimum Available Secure Cage space of<br />

100 sq-ft.<br />

• Network Connectivity Services which<br />

provide access ports for Dedicated<br />

Infrastructure, high speed, fully redundant<br />

internet connectivity and public IP addresses<br />

(optional)<br />

• 24x7 Service Desk Support including a<br />

single Point of Contact for Service and 24x7<br />

Service Support Requests<br />

• 24x7 Data Centre Access and access<br />

cards for up to 2 Authorized Customer<br />

Representatives (ACR)<br />

• Remote Hands service enables customers<br />

to use our Service Desk to act as your<br />

‘remote hands’. Our staff will follow your<br />

instructions by phone for various one time<br />

tasks (i.e. Physical server access, inspection<br />

of environment, loading and removing of<br />

tapes / CDs, physical server reboot etc.)<br />

• Service Account Management – Dedicated<br />

Service Account Managers to ensure quality<br />

of service delivery<br />

Optional Services<br />

The optional service components are as follows:<br />

• Managed Security Services<br />

• Backup Services<br />

• Storage Services


• Database Services<br />

• Monitoring Services<br />

• Hardware Services<br />

- Server Lease<br />

- Support and Warranty<br />

- Installation and Configuration<br />

• Software Services<br />

- OS Software Management<br />

- Fixes, Patches and Updates<br />

- Installation and Configuration<br />

Benefits<br />

Cost Savings<br />

With our Managed Co-location services,<br />

you can save a significant amount of<br />

investment on IT assets and staff costs. Your<br />

staff can focus on the core IT activities rather<br />

than spending time on backup, storage<br />

and monitoring activities. You can also<br />

reduce capital expenditure on hardware<br />

components by converting those expenses<br />

into operating expenses. It also allows you<br />

to not bother about hardware becoming<br />

obsolete and depreciation costs.<br />

Core Business Focus<br />

With Managed Co-location, you can focus<br />

on your core business rather than bothering<br />

about managing the IT infrastructure, while<br />

still having complete control over the strategic<br />

portion of your IT.<br />

High Quality of Service<br />

We provide guaranteed Service Level<br />

Agreements(SLAs) to ensure quality of service.<br />

State-of-the-Art Infrastructure<br />

You will get access to our highly reliable, secure,<br />

world class Data Centres which will ensure that<br />

the risks to your mission critical systems and<br />

applications are minimal.<br />

Operations and Monitoring Services<br />

The round-the-clock service desk ensures 24x7<br />

operations and monitoring. Unlike traditional<br />

co-location facilities, you will not need to<br />

troubleshoot hardware or network failures yourself<br />

by rushing to the co-location facilities as it will be<br />

managed by our experts.<br />

Access to Skilled Resources<br />

We have dedicated skilled technical resources and<br />

24x7 support services which your company might<br />

not have. This allows you to be certain that you<br />

can avail our team expertise to manage your IT<br />

infrastructure.<br />

Reduced Time to Market<br />

Upgrades can be done almost immediately, at<br />

very short notice. This reduces your time to market<br />

which is imperative in today’s dynamic business<br />

environment.


Managed Hosting<br />

Enhanced peace of mind and freedom to focus on your core business<br />

Overview<br />

What is Managed Hosting?<br />

Globalization and ever increasing reliance on IT<br />

has meant that more and more customers have<br />

to manage applications & IT infrastructure with<br />

a high degree of complexity, plus the need for<br />

highly scalable, flexible capacity.<br />

Managed hosting provides cost savings through<br />

reduced CAPEX along with the flexibility to scale<br />

capacity on a monthly basis on a ‘pay as you go’<br />

model. More and more customers are looking<br />

at having their IT infrastructure managed by a<br />

third party / outsourced to leverage their skilled<br />

resources and international standard processes<br />

in order to maximise performance of their IT<br />

systems while maintaining the necessary level of<br />

control of their hosting environment.<br />

In Managed Hosting, customers lease one<br />

or more dedicated servers from a Data<br />

Centre Service Provider who undertakes the<br />

responsibility of managing the servers up to<br />

Operating System (OS).<br />

Our offering<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> offers Managed Hosting<br />

services thereby converting customers’ Capital<br />

Expenditure (CAPEX) to Operating Expenditure<br />

(OPEX) by offering services on a monthly<br />

subscription basis.<br />

The management of the entire spectrum of<br />

your hosting is in accordance with ensuring<br />

better business performance and optimal IT<br />

service delivery.<br />

We provide Dedicated Servers and monitor<br />

and manage your IT infrastructure (server,<br />

network, hardware), operating system and<br />

applications, with managed security.<br />

All vendor contracts related to maintenance,<br />

upgrades and support for Hardware and<br />

Software are managed by <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> as<br />

a Single Point of Contact.<br />

In addition, the Service Provider also undertakes<br />

the responsibility of providing managed services<br />

that include Backup, Storage, Security, Network,<br />

and Application & System Administration<br />

Services. The entire hosted infrastructure is<br />

managed on a 24x7 basis and is also backed by<br />

SLAs required for high availability, reliability,<br />

security and redundancy.


Features<br />

Apart from the enterprise-class Data<br />

Centre infrastructure, the following service<br />

components are included as part of the<br />

Managed Hosting service:<br />

Rack Space<br />

• Rack Space is allocated on a per Rack<br />

Unit (RU) basis within the Universal Data<br />

Centre<br />

Hardware Services<br />

• Server Lease<br />

• Support and Warranty<br />

• Installation and Configuration<br />

Software Services<br />

• OS Monitoring and Management<br />

• Fixes, Patches and Updates<br />

• Installation and Configuration<br />

Network Connectivity Services<br />

• Access Ports for Shared Infrastructure<br />

• Redundant Internet Connectivity<br />

• VPN Services<br />

• Public IP Addresses<br />

Managed Security Services<br />

• Shared Firewall Services (24x7<br />

Monitoring & Management)<br />

• Server Security Services (Anti-Virus,<br />

HIDS, Monitoring)<br />

• Network Intrusion Detection System (IDS)<br />

• Service Monitoring<br />

Backup & Storage Services<br />

• Daily Differential Backup<br />

• Weekly Full Backup<br />

• 30 Days Backup Retention Period<br />

• 90 Days Offsite<br />

Database Services<br />

• SQL and Oracle Database services<br />

Managed Application Services<br />

• Internet Information Services (IIS)<br />

• Exchange Services<br />

• Apache<br />

Remote Hands<br />

• Remote hands for basic manual<br />

operations<br />

24x7 Service Desk Support<br />

• Single Point of Contact<br />

• 24x7 Service Support Requests<br />

• Dedicated Service Account Manager


Benefits<br />

CAPEX – OPEX Model<br />

With Managed Hosting, you can save a<br />

significant amount of investment on IT assets<br />

and staff costs. You can also reduce capital<br />

expenditure on hardware by converting it into<br />

monthly operating expenses without bothering<br />

about hardware becoming obsolete and thereby<br />

reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).<br />

Minimizing Technology Investment<br />

With Managed Hosting, your technology<br />

investment is minimized and you get access to<br />

the latest technologies without upfront capital<br />

investments and without having to worry about<br />

replacing obsolete hardware or compromising on<br />

efficiency by using outdated hardware.<br />

Access to Skilled Resources<br />

We have skilled technical resources across<br />

various technology domains such as Cisco,<br />

Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Oracle, BMC, EMC,<br />

Networking, Security, Storage, Project<br />

Management (PMP), Linux, AIX, etc. This<br />

saves you the trouble of having to spend on<br />

continuously hiring and training IT staff.<br />

State-of-the-Art Infrastructure<br />

You will get access to our highly reliable world<br />

class Data Centres which are completely<br />

redundant without having a single point of<br />

failure thereby ensuring your mission critical<br />

applications and infrastructure are ‘Always On’.


Core Business Focus<br />

Your staff can focus on core IT activities<br />

rather than spending time on routine<br />

activities such as backup, storage, security<br />

and monitoring.<br />

High Quality of Service Delivery<br />

We provide guaranteed Service Level<br />

Agreements (SLAs) to ensure high quality of<br />

service.<br />

Scalability & Faster time to Market<br />

If your business expands and requires<br />

additional investment in IT infrastructure,<br />

upgrading it is very fast with Managed<br />

Hosting services without having to worry<br />

about buying, deploying, maintaining, etc.<br />

24x7 Operations<br />

The round-the-clock service desk ensures<br />

24x7 operations and monitoring of your<br />

mission critical IT infrastructure.<br />

Reduced downtime<br />

Our Data Centre infrastructure is built<br />

for high availability complying with the<br />

requirements of business applications. This<br />

ensures that your business experiences<br />

near-zero downtime.<br />

Enhanced Security<br />

With 24x7 physical security, building<br />

management systems, fire and smoke<br />

detection systems, CCTV monitoring and<br />

redundant UPS and backup generators,<br />

your critical data and applications are more<br />

secure than in an in-house Data Centre.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Dedicated Servers<br />

Choose from our range of dedicated servers to meet your IT needs<br />

Overview<br />

What are Dedicated Servers?<br />

Dedicated Servers refer to leasing of one or more<br />

exclusive servers, related software, network, etc.<br />

housed in a service provider’s premises.<br />

Our offering<br />

We offer Dedicated Servers which include server<br />

leasing combined with 24x7 Service Desk support.<br />

The server is connected to a high speed internet<br />

connection and is backed by Service Level<br />

Agreements (SLAs). It also includes management<br />

of your Network, Hardware, Operating System,<br />

backups as well as security services. The servers<br />

are hosted in our enterprise-class Data Centres that<br />

provide security, reliability and high performance.<br />

You can access the robust, secure, redundant,<br />

infrastructure you need today, without a significant<br />

up-front CAPEX investment, allowing you to use<br />

additional services based on your future business<br />

growth.<br />

Our dedicated servers are suitable for all your IT<br />

needs, be it application servers, complex website<br />

hosting servers, database servers, etc.<br />

Features<br />

Apart from the Data Centre infrastructure, the<br />

following service components are included as part<br />

of the Dedicated Server Service.<br />

• Setup & Implementation – Installation and<br />

commissioning of a blade Server within<br />

our universal Data Centre connected to the<br />

internet<br />

• Server Hardware<br />

• 24x7 Service Desk Support<br />

• Operating System Licenses<br />

• Anti Virus and Shared Firewall Security<br />

• VPN Client to Site - Encrypts all traffic<br />

between two internet points providing<br />

secure communication channels for<br />

individual users or user groups to their<br />

hosted infrastructure<br />

• OS Monitoring – Windows Operating<br />

Systems are monitored continuously to<br />

ensure optimal performance through<br />

proactive surveillance performance, patches,<br />

releases, thresholds to detect problems<br />

before end users are affected<br />

• OS Administration – OS experts will ensure<br />

best practices and policies for customers’<br />

Operating Systems<br />

• Security Services – Anti-Virus, Server<br />

Hardening, Host & Network Intrusion &<br />

Penetration testing services to ensure best in<br />

class server security services<br />

• Backup Services – Monthly stipulated<br />

backup volume with last 7 days, 4 weekly<br />

and 1 Monthly backup. Monthly backups<br />

will be kept for 2 months after which it will


e recycled unless a different retention<br />

policy is requested<br />

• Internet Traffic – Stipulated internet traffic<br />

Benefits<br />

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)<br />

Dedicated servers allow you to take advantage<br />

of the enterprise-class Data Centre Infrastructure<br />

and 24x7 Technical Support for a low monthly<br />

fee. This leads to a reduced Total Cost of<br />

Ownership (TCO).<br />

24x7 Support<br />

Every server is backed by 24x7 technical<br />

support delivered by our highly skilled<br />

operations team.<br />

Security<br />

Your dedicated servers will be hosted in our<br />

State-of-the-Art Data Centres with high-end<br />

security features like 24x7 physical security,<br />

access control systems, anti-virus and firewall,<br />

host intrusion detection systems, etc. This<br />

ensures top-of-the-line security for your<br />

business critical data and applications.<br />

Access to expertise<br />

With our dedicated server services, you will<br />

have access to skilled technical resources.<br />

Access to latest technology<br />

With our world-class infrastructure, you will<br />

have access to the latest technology without<br />

incurring capital expenditure, worrying<br />

about hardware and software upgrades and<br />

hardware becoming obsolete.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Managed Security Services<br />

Managed security services to protect your IT environment<br />

Overview<br />

What is Managed Security?<br />

Security is one of the primary concerns for most<br />

businesses, be it threat, vulnerability, data theft<br />

or performance degradation due to attacks. Any<br />

organisation connected to the internet faces<br />

information security threats like viruses, worms,<br />

hackers, spam & specific malicious intent.<br />

Managed Security helps deal with these issues.<br />

Our offering<br />

We offer a suite of Managed Security Services<br />

to deal with security issues. Our security experts<br />

utilize best of breed security measures to ensure<br />

the security of data stored on specific network<br />

of servers. We follow strict compliances and<br />

methodologies to ensure that the client hosted<br />

network are protected from any malicious<br />

invaders, spammers, hackers, and other threats.<br />

Features<br />

You can choose from individual services or<br />

comprehensive solutions to meet your business’<br />

security needs. Our Managed Security service<br />

encapsulates the following sub services:<br />

1. Anti virus services<br />

2. Host intrusion prevention<br />

3. Password auto repository services<br />

4. Firewall monitoring and threat prevention<br />

5. Penetration testing<br />

6. Vulnerability asssessment<br />

7. Web application audit<br />

8. Security monitoring services<br />

9. Spam protection<br />

10. Security correlation engine<br />

1. Anti Virus Services<br />

• Setup, installation and policy configuration<br />

• Constant updates to threat signatures<br />

• Continuous server updates and scan<br />

• Real-time virus and spyware protection<br />

• Detection and repair of the effects of spyware,<br />

adware, viruses and other malicious intrusions<br />

• Support for all variants of Windows and Linux®<br />

clients<br />

2. Host Intrusion Prevention<br />

• Software system that monitors and raises alerts<br />

of any cyber threat<br />

• Gathers and analyzes information from various<br />

network areas<br />

• Protects the underlying operating system<br />

by preventing attackers from exploiting<br />

vulnerabilities<br />

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted<br />

application layer intrusion monitoring and<br />

analysis<br />

• Detects and prevents inbound attacks as well<br />

as blocks new and unknown outbound attacks<br />

such as buffer overflows, Trojans, brute force<br />

attacks, unauthorized access and network<br />

worms<br />

• Log monitoring & analysis


• Scalable server protection strategy<br />

3. Password Auto Repository (PAR)<br />

Services<br />

• Uses an authentication system such as<br />

Secure ID and allows engineers to access<br />

the systems through a temporary password<br />

(which expires immediately after the<br />

requested and approved period of time)<br />

• This is then approved through an authorized<br />

personnel on the customer’s side<br />

• Guarantees privileged password<br />

management features and functions<br />

• Protects against external network based<br />

attacks<br />

• Audit compliance & access logs<br />

• Password encryption<br />

• Secured user connections via https / SSLv3<br />

4. Firewall Monitoring and Threat<br />

Prevention (Network Intrusion<br />

Prevention & Event Correlation)<br />

• Protects the system from hackers looking for<br />

a virtual way into an organisation’s network<br />

• Centralized view of enterprise-wide events<br />

across heterogeneous infrastructures<br />

• Real time and historic view into external<br />

attacks, insider threats and regulatory<br />

compliance<br />

• Service options and security configurations<br />

that best fit the customers’ needs<br />

• Configuration and support of hardware and<br />

software components<br />

• 24 x 7 technical support<br />

• Customer access to logs, for a minimum<br />

period of 90 days<br />

• Generic monthly reports<br />

• On-demand services including in-depth<br />

analysis of the Firewall Report or an<br />

incident<br />

5. Penetration Testing<br />

• Extensive analysis and exploitation of<br />

security controls in networks, applications<br />

and systems carried out from the<br />

perspective of both external and internal<br />

attackers<br />

• Tests & checks from various entry<br />

points from the public network as well<br />

as the internal network, probing it for<br />

vulnerabilities & threats<br />

• Detailed technical reports explaining<br />

security concerns and their severity and<br />

recommending fixes<br />

• Black box penetration testing (testing the<br />

web from outside the network without<br />

knowing information about the internal<br />

network)<br />

• Grey box penetration testing (testing the<br />

environment after collecting information<br />

about the internal components and IP<br />

addresses etc.)


6. Vulnerability Assessment<br />

• Identifies vulnerabilities that intruders may be<br />

able to exploit<br />

• Provides a security analysis of clients’<br />

network, security and architecture<br />

development<br />

• Assesses risk for safeguarding customer<br />

information and delivers responsive,<br />

proactive support<br />

• Offers three key assessments in: Network<br />

Assessment, Computer Assessment,<br />

Architecture Design and Review<br />

7. Web Application Audit<br />

• Secures applications to protect corporate<br />

information and assets<br />

• Offers an application audit and code review<br />

involving a comprehensive test on the<br />

corporate applications to check its security<br />

posture against various threats<br />

• Provides possible recommendations and best<br />

practices<br />

8. Security Monitoring Services<br />

• Has access to the Security Operations<br />

Center (SOC) for day-to-day management of<br />

firewalls, Intrusion Detection systems and<br />

other security assets on a 24x7 basis<br />

• Offers advanced enterprise-wide virus<br />

protection and monitoring from a single<br />

management console<br />

• Monitors security logs of Firewalls and<br />

Intrusion Detection Systems<br />

• Software upgrades performed on Firewalls<br />

and Intrusion Detection Systems as<br />

deemed necessary to maintain optimum<br />

performance on all platforms<br />

• Scan on an automated basis any recurring<br />

vulnerabilities<br />

• Incident based reporting<br />

9. Spam Protection<br />

• Offers heightened mail protection<br />

• Anti-spam gateway solutions ensure that<br />

customers receive as little spam mail in<br />

their mailbox as possible<br />

• With a wide range of different technologies<br />

and methods including Header checking,<br />

DNS / SPF checking (that identifies if<br />

incoming email is a spoof or not) to virus<br />

detection, we ensure that our customers<br />

mailing system is completely protected<br />

10. Security Correlation Engine<br />

• Logging infrastructure collects logs from<br />

various devices such as firewalls, servers<br />

OS and access control devices and<br />

applications; the logs match significant<br />

signatures criteria in one engine to add a<br />

proof of a consistent threat<br />

• Allows an enhanced alerting mechanism<br />

by matching logs from different devices on<br />

the same incident


Benefits<br />

Compliance & Governance<br />

Our security certifications and practices<br />

automatically extend best practices and<br />

policies to the hosted infrastructure securing<br />

the necessary compliances and standards for<br />

the customer.<br />

Customized Solution<br />

Our network team have thorough hands-on<br />

experience managing these technologies in all<br />

types of environments enabling them to assist<br />

our solution design team to make the right<br />

technology choices for our customers.<br />

Protection Against Unauthorised<br />

Access<br />

Secure authentication, proactive protection<br />

& monitoring, strict audits and access logs<br />

ensure protection of your business critical<br />

information against unauthorized access,<br />

attacks and threats that attempt to disable<br />

security measures.<br />

Comprehensive Management View<br />

A comprehensive view of clients via<br />

centralized logging, threshold alerting, and<br />

graphical reporting helps transform security<br />

data into actionable information. A single<br />

management console can be used to monitor<br />

security.<br />

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership<br />

(TCO)<br />

We manage your security systems, saving<br />

you time and money by allowing you to<br />

focus your staff on running your mission<br />

critical business instead of bothering about<br />

security issues.<br />

Trained and Dedicated Professionals<br />

We have certified and trained security<br />

professionals who are experts in managing a<br />

variety of security devices to manage your IT<br />

infrastructure.<br />

Round-the-clock Surveillance<br />

Round-the-clock monitoring and<br />

management by the Security Operations<br />

Center (SOC) allows customers to focus on<br />

what they do best, i.e. their core business.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Remote Managed Security Services<br />

Protect your IT infrastructure 24 / 7<br />

Our offering:<br />

Organizations may not want to host their<br />

mission critical data and applications outside<br />

their corporate networks and environment. At<br />

the same time, they want to focus on their core<br />

business instead of monitoring and responding<br />

to security-related disruptions.<br />

In such a scenario, they can work with <strong>eHosting</strong><br />

<strong>DataFort</strong> in order to help them protect their<br />

mission critical infrastructure, detect attacks,<br />

assess vulnerabilities, and respond to threats in<br />

real time.<br />

Our Remote Managed Security Services<br />

offering provides enterprises an ideal solution<br />

at a fraction of the cost compared to internal<br />

IT staff attempting to manage an<br />

organization’s complex security issues.<br />

Service Classification and Features:<br />

We provide flexible options to meet specific<br />

business requirements. eHDF offers 3 types of<br />

services – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced.<br />

The features are -<br />

Remote Managed Security Services<br />

Basic<br />

Intermediate<br />

Advanced<br />

• Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS)<br />

• Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)<br />

• Log Monitoring & Correlation<br />

• Log Storage<br />

• Firewall Management<br />

• Onsite Incident Management<br />

• Password Auto Repository<br />

• Monthly Reports<br />

• Anti Virus<br />

• Spam Protection<br />

• Authentication Service-Secure Token<br />

• Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Test<br />

• Security Implementation ( NIPS/HIPS/Firewall )


Benefits:<br />

24 / 7 support<br />

The round-the-clock service desk ensures 24 / 7<br />

operations and monitoring.<br />

Monthly reporting<br />

Monthly reports help transform security<br />

related data into actionable information in<br />

order to enhance the security of your IT<br />

systems.<br />

Improved quality of service and<br />

better service levels<br />

We provide guaranteed Service Level<br />

Agreements (SLAs) to ensure quality of service.<br />

Better regulatory compliance<br />

Our security certifications and practices enable<br />

necessary compliance requirements for the<br />

customer.<br />

Reduced cost and complexity<br />

We manage your security systems, saving you<br />

time and money by allowing you to focus your<br />

staff on running your mission critical business<br />

instead of bothering about security issues.<br />

Improved overall security performance<br />

Remote Managed Security Services ensure<br />

protection of your business critical information<br />

against unauthorized access, attacks and threats<br />

that attempt to disable security measures.<br />

Access to security experts<br />

We have certified and trained security<br />

professionals who are experts in managing<br />

security issues.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Managed Databases<br />

Ensure high availability and optimum performance of your databases<br />

Overview<br />

What is Managed Databases?<br />

Database services are critical to business<br />

efficiency and with ever-increasing amounts<br />

of data, it is important to maintain high<br />

availability & performance guarantees<br />

round-the-clock. Downtime or delayed data<br />

processing due to huge volume of data and<br />

its complex management or maintenance can<br />

translate into business loss and dissatisfied<br />

customers.<br />

With Managed Databases, the service<br />

provider takes charge of procuring, installing<br />

and managing the databases.<br />

Our Offering<br />

With our Managed Database Services, our<br />

experts will help you manage your mission<br />

critical databases effectively ensuring optimal<br />

performance and service levels required by<br />

your business. They will ensure that your<br />

databases are protected, strictly monitored<br />

and managed by established backup and<br />

recovery procedures.<br />

The service ensures a secure database<br />

environment and focused monitoring of<br />

database performance, which contributes<br />

towards scalability decisions for any<br />

additional capacity planning.<br />

Features<br />

We offer two types of Database Services.<br />

They are:<br />

1. SQL Database Services<br />

2. Oracle Database Services<br />

Basic Services<br />

1. SQL Database Services<br />

Our Standard SQL Database services are<br />

currently available for SQL 2005 and SQL<br />

2010.<br />

Key features include:<br />

• Initial database software installation,<br />

including configuration and verification<br />

as required<br />

• Hardening of SQL<br />

• Installation of a dedicated instance<br />

• Setup of backup and database<br />

management policies<br />

• Database creation, execution of database<br />

scripts and shrinking of database<br />

• Performance of daily or weekly backups<br />

to disk, as requested by customer<br />

• Management and monitoring of disk<br />

space<br />

• Database restoration, as needed<br />

• Rebuilding of database indexes<br />

• Running SQL scripts or queries for<br />

clients


2. Oracle Database Services<br />

Our Standard Oracle Database services are<br />

currently available for Oracle 10 & 11g Editions.<br />

Key features include:<br />

• Initial database software installation,<br />

including configuration and verification as<br />

required<br />

• Installation of a dedicated instance<br />

• Setup of backup and database management<br />

policies<br />

• Performance of daily or weekly backups to<br />

disk, as requested by customer<br />

• Management and monitoring of disk space<br />

• Database restoration, as needed<br />

• Rebuilding of database indexes<br />

• Running SQL scripts or queries for clients<br />

Optional Services<br />

• SQL / Oracle Off Site Replication<br />

• Upgrading versions<br />

• Installation and configuration of SQL /<br />

Oracle RAC databases<br />

• Data conversion/migration assistance<br />

• Database consultations – SQL query tuning<br />

• Perform database performance tuning<br />

(design or load)<br />

• Rebuilding indexes<br />

Benefits<br />

High Availability<br />

Our Managed Databases service ensures<br />

that your database is always up and running.<br />

Round-the-clock monitoring and support<br />

ensures optimal performance.<br />

Reduced Risks<br />

We have an extremely competent technical<br />

team having extensive experience with<br />

SQL and Oracle databases to ensure best<br />

practices are complied with. Monitoring of the<br />

performance criteria will help customers in<br />

understanding their database usage and will<br />

help mitigate risks.<br />

Core Business Focus<br />

Our Managed Databases service enables you<br />

to focus on your core activities (i.e. application<br />

performance, database indexing, analytics<br />

etc.) while we take care that your databases<br />

are running at peak performance in line with<br />

Service Level Agreements (SLAs).<br />

Scalability<br />

Continuous monitoring enables customers<br />

to analyze their load and growth parameters<br />

which are key indicators for future upgrades<br />

and scalability decisions (i.e. storage, processing<br />

power, high availability etc). We ensure proactive<br />

assistance and consultancy for your databases<br />

to ensure seamless integration of additional<br />

capacities required by a growing business.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Managed Storage Services<br />

Highly available storage services for your critical data<br />

Overview<br />

What is Managed Storage?<br />

With ever-increasing data intensive applications,<br />

data storage is becoming significantly important.<br />

There is a growing demand for high performance,<br />

reliability, scalability, security and high<br />

availability. An organisation’s storage always<br />

grows over a period of time.<br />

Managed Storage services provide storage<br />

capacity, monitoring and management of<br />

customers’ data in a secure environment.<br />

Our offering<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong>’s Managed Storage Services<br />

allow customers to store, manage and<br />

maintain data dynamically to keep up with the<br />

business requirements without worrying about<br />

performance degradation. The service ensures<br />

architectural compliances with no CAPEX and<br />

ensures scalability of the solution with the surging<br />

storage requirements.<br />

Features<br />

Storage Area Networks (SAN) gives customers the<br />

best of both storage and network technologies. It<br />

provides high performance and high availability<br />

by virtue of its fully redundant architecture.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> offers 3 Key SAN Services:<br />

• Server SAN Connectivity - Allows customers<br />

to connect their servers to shared SAN that<br />

gives optimal performance for databases and<br />

cluster servers. Customers can avail high<br />

availability SAN services with guaranteed<br />

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) without<br />

investing on expensive SAN infrastructure<br />

themselves<br />

• SAN Storage – <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> uses<br />

high performance disks (i.e. SCSI & SAS)<br />

with various criteria (RAID 0/1/10/5) to<br />

fulfill storage requirements for the hosted<br />

infrastructure<br />

• Multipathing - Automatically tunes your<br />

SAN and selects alternate paths for your<br />

data if necessary. Residing on the server,<br />

Multipathing enhances SAN performance<br />

and application availability. It also integrates<br />

multiple-path I / O capabilities, automatic<br />

load balancing, and path failover functions for<br />

complete path management<br />

Benefits<br />

Core Business Focus<br />

We will manage and maintain the consolidated<br />

network storage repository for customers, which<br />

ensures peace of mind and allows them to focus<br />

on their core activities.<br />

24x7 Monitoring and Support<br />

Round-the-clock monitoring and support means<br />

that your business does not suffer any downtime.


Reduced Capital Investments, Pay-As-<br />

You-Grow<br />

Customers can reap the benefits of high<br />

availability and highly secure SAN services<br />

without investing on SAN infrastructure. The payas-you-grow<br />

model allows you to pay for only<br />

what you use and scale it dynamically as your<br />

business demands.<br />

Scalability<br />

High storage capacity makes the SAN services<br />

scalable. This eliminates the need to worry about<br />

growing the storage capacity as the business<br />

grows.<br />

High Availability<br />

Fully redundant architecture of SAN services<br />

provides high availability to our customers.<br />

Security<br />

Highly reliable and secure Data Centre<br />

infrastructure ensures that your critical business<br />

applications are always secure.<br />

Service Level Agreements<br />

Guaranteed Service Level Agreements (SLAs)<br />

ensure high quality of service.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Managed Backup and Restore<br />

Secure and reliable backup for your business<br />

Overview<br />

What is Managed Backup & Restore?<br />

Information protection is one of IT’s most critical<br />

functions and data is the most valuable IT asset.<br />

This makes it imperative for businesses to ensure<br />

data security and availability.<br />

Traditional tape-based backup solutions cannot<br />

deliver high service levels, primarily because<br />

tape libraries, tape drives, and tape media are<br />

not built with a focus on reliable restoration.<br />

Managed Backup and Restore not only<br />

minimizes risk of data loss but also restores data<br />

faster than tape backup solutions.<br />

Our offering<br />

Our Backup and Recovery solution offers a diskto-disk-to-offsite<br />

backup solution with<br />

real-time data protection for servers, laptops,<br />

and desktops– both locally for instant recovery<br />

and offsite for disaster recovery.<br />

Features<br />

• Determination of backup schedules by our<br />

architects who size the file and database<br />

volume of the hosted infrastructure and<br />

calculate the monthly volume with<br />

customer inputs on the selection list of<br />

folders for backup<br />

• Installation of backup agents depending on<br />

the applications and operating systems for<br />

maintaining data integrity<br />

• Policy based, full weekly backups and<br />

daily incremental backups - Last 7 days,<br />

4 weekly and 1 Monthly tapes of clients.<br />

Typically monthly tapes are kept for 2<br />

months after which they are recycled<br />

• Weekly offsite backups in a fire proof,<br />

earthquake resistant and physically and<br />

environmentally controlled place<br />

• Open files backup<br />

• File versioning & local archiving<br />

• Central & Remote Administration<br />

• Compression technology enabling efficient<br />

utilization of disk space<br />

• Backup verification procedures<br />

• Optional test-recovery strategies<br />

• Backups scheduled during off-peak hours<br />

• Regular aggregate backup usage reports,<br />

successful backup sessions, identification<br />

of critical trends, impending limit alerts to<br />

enable capacity planning etc<br />

• Various operating systems, database<br />

platforms and business applications<br />

compatibility<br />

• We offer 4 Main Types of Backup Services<br />

which include: Standard Backup Services,<br />

Snap and Clone Services, Disk Imaging<br />

Services and Customized Backup & Restore<br />

Services


Benefits<br />

Data Recovery and Restoration<br />

Managed Backup and Restore services ensure<br />

fast and easy data recovery and help to plan for<br />

disaster recovery and business continuity.<br />

Security<br />

Data is secured by AES 256-bit encryption<br />

technologies implemented by major financial<br />

institutions and government agencies. In addition,<br />

our state-of-the-art Data Centre facilities offer very<br />

high levels of security for your critical business<br />

data and applications.<br />

Reduced Risk<br />

Fully automated service reduces the risk associated<br />

with handling backup tapes.<br />

Reduced Business Impact<br />

Backup scheduling done outside working hours<br />

avoids business impact.<br />

Quality of Service<br />

We offer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that<br />

ensure high quality of service.<br />

Increased Productivity and Efficiency<br />

With reduction on time spent on routine<br />

managerial tasks, productivity and efficiency<br />

increases.<br />

High Availability<br />

Round-the-clock monitoring and support<br />

ensures high availability.<br />

Scalability<br />

Our solutions are scalable, designed to<br />

accommodate growing volumes of data.<br />

Customized Solutions<br />

We offer customized solutions to meet<br />

customers’ needs.<br />

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)<br />

With our Backup and Restore services you do not<br />

have to worry about provisioning, implementation,<br />

and management costs. This leads to lower<br />

operational costs and reduced Total Cost of<br />

Ownership (TCO).<br />

Core Business Focus<br />

Our experts will manage your Backup and Restore<br />

needs so that your team can eliminate routine data<br />

management tasks to focus on the core business.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Managed Exchange<br />

Ensuring high availability, performance and security<br />

of your exchange systems<br />

Overview<br />

What is Managed Exchange?<br />

E-mail has become one of the most critical<br />

business applications forming the backbone for<br />

the day-to-day business operations. Anytime,<br />

anywhere access to e-mail, contacts, calendar<br />

and resources has become imperative to ensure<br />

effective communication with customers,<br />

vendors and partners.<br />

Managed Exchange is a sophisticated email<br />

messaging solution aimed at achieving much<br />

more from email systems than simply sending<br />

and receiving emails. Dedicated servers ensure<br />

corporate compliance and personalization that<br />

can be only delivered on the dedicated hosting<br />

setup.<br />

Managed Exchange solutions integrate with<br />

mobile phones and wireless devices, allowing<br />

for continuous connection via Blackberry<br />

Enterprise Server, iPhone or Outlook Web<br />

Access.<br />

Our Offering<br />

Our Managed Exchange offering is based on<br />

Microsoft Exchange Server technology and<br />

provides an affordable, premium email service<br />

that maintains and manages your exchange<br />

server empowering your organisation with<br />

the ability to communicate more effectively<br />

thereby substantially improving the way your<br />

organisation operates.<br />

Managed Exchange can bring time efficiency<br />

and business agility with exchange hosting by<br />

coordinating contacts, meetings and email,<br />

whether you are in the office, or working<br />

remotely.<br />

We offer customized solutions to fit your needs<br />

and our monthly pricing model ensures that<br />

you pay for only what you use without incurring<br />

capital expenditure.<br />

Features<br />

Managed Exchange features include:<br />

• Premium user email services including<br />

Contacts, Calendar, Public Folders, Archive<br />

Folders, Meeting Planner, Task Lists<br />

• Monthly subscription based flexible licensing<br />

options<br />

• Anti-virus & Anti-Spam<br />

• Daily backups<br />

• 24x7 server monitoring<br />

• Critical updates and service packs<br />

• Industry standard Service Level Agreements<br />

(SLAs)<br />

• Full hardware warranty and support<br />

• Redundant internet connectivity<br />

• Secure WebMail Access (OWA)<br />

• Support for RPC of HTTP (XP / Office 2003 &<br />

above)


• Support for POP3, HTTP, HTTPs, VPN<br />

• Firewall and network-to-network VPN<br />

support<br />

• SSL security<br />

• Blackberry support<br />

• Email archiving<br />

Benefits<br />

Predictable Monthly Expenses<br />

You don’t have to worry about varying costs<br />

with our fixed, monthly charges, which can<br />

be budgeted well in advance.<br />

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership<br />

(TCO)<br />

Maintenance and management of your<br />

own exchange server involves significant<br />

expenditures, specialist skills and time. A<br />

hosted solution always compares favorably<br />

when evaluated against an on-premise<br />

Exchange solution and reduces your Total<br />

Cost of Ownership (TCO) with little to<br />

no upfront investment and a predictable<br />

monthly fee.<br />

Reduced Risks<br />

Data stored on each local PC and on servers<br />

at <strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> with regular off-site<br />

backups help reduce the risk of data loss and<br />

protect your critical information.<br />

High Availability<br />

With our experts managing your messaging<br />

application, your applications will have high<br />

availability and peak efficiency.<br />

Improved Team Performance and<br />

Productivity<br />

Exchange services are key collaboration tools<br />

enabling teams for achieving quick workflow<br />

and business communication.<br />

Enhanced Security<br />

Comprehensive built-in protection against<br />

viruses and spam provide enhanced security.<br />

With our State-of-the-Art Data Centres you<br />

can be assured of high levels of security and<br />

reliability.<br />

Flexibility – Anytime, Anywhere<br />

Access<br />

Flexible access to your mailbox content via<br />

any web browser- whether you are in the<br />

office, working from home or on the road.<br />

Round-the-clock Support<br />

24x7 telephone support allows you to focus<br />

on what you do best, i.e. your core business.<br />

Customized Solution<br />

We have customized solutions so you can<br />

choose the option that suits your business<br />

needs based on the number of users.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


IT Administration Services<br />

Forget day to day IT administration issues and focus on your core business<br />

Overview<br />

What is IT Administration?<br />

Most companies rely heavily on applications,<br />

databases and critical IT infrastructure to support<br />

their business. As organisations grow, not only<br />

does it become difficult to build the required<br />

expertise in-house, but it can also be quite<br />

an expensive proposition. IT Administration<br />

Services encompass technical support to perform<br />

installation, configuration, maintenance and<br />

monitoring, allowing customers to focus on the<br />

business requirements rather than day-to-day IT<br />

administration challenges.<br />

Our offering<br />

Our IT Administration services include:<br />

1. Windows Server Administration<br />

2. System Administration & Management<br />

3. Web Server Administration<br />

4. Exchange Server Administration<br />

5. J2EE Server Administration<br />

6. Active Directory Administration<br />

Features<br />

1. Windows Server Administration<br />

• OS installation following Microsoft (MS) best<br />

practices<br />

• Optimizing default installations and windows<br />

services to client specific requirements<br />

• ACL, Folder & administration<br />

management<br />

• Management and monitoring of disk<br />

space<br />

• Monitoring Server application & security<br />

logs for performance<br />

• Keeping OS patched up-to-date as per<br />

MS paradigms<br />

• MS backed technical support & advisory<br />

2. System Administration and<br />

Management<br />

• Installation and Configuration of the<br />

Operating System (OS) with latest service<br />

pack<br />

• OS Hardening<br />

• Security and Patches Updates<br />

• Monitoring and management of critical<br />

system parameters such as memory, disk<br />

space, CPU<br />

• Server installation and system updates<br />

• System services & application availability<br />

• Checking event logs<br />

• Creating administrative scripts, logon<br />

scripts, user and group accounts<br />

• Installing a domain controller<br />

• Management tasks for disks and volumes<br />

• File and folder management


• Resetting user passwords<br />

• Scheduling tasks<br />

• Setting up TCP / IP, user and group security<br />

• Readiness for other services (i.e. Backup,<br />

AV, HIDS, BMC)<br />

3. Web Server Administration<br />

• Installation of the web server application<br />

• Creating virtual directories on request<br />

• Configuration of proxy pass<br />

• URL redirection at web server level on<br />

request<br />

• Changing any application configuration<br />

parameters on request<br />

• Configuring of SSL certificates including<br />

CSR generation<br />

4. Exchange Server Administration<br />

• Install and configure Exchange Server with<br />

latest service pack<br />

• Email phishing configuration<br />

• Sender ID configuration<br />

• Configuration of SSL certificates including<br />

CSR generation<br />

• Recipient policy configuration / changes<br />

• Exchange security updates and patches<br />

installation<br />

• Mailbox creation<br />

• Configuration / changes of mailbox<br />

quotas, recipient policies


5. J2EE Server Administration<br />

• Installation of the application<br />

• Configuring connection pools<br />

• Starting / stopping containers on request<br />

• Changing any application configuration<br />

parameters on request<br />

6. Active Directory Administration<br />

• Allows customer to assign policies, deploy<br />

software, and apply critical updates to the<br />

application user and access to the hosted<br />

infrastructure<br />

• The ability to scale up or down easily<br />

• LDAP-directory services<br />

• Kerberos-based authentication<br />

• DNS-based naming and other network<br />

information<br />

• Central location for network administration<br />

and delegation of authority<br />

• Information security and single sign-on for<br />

user access to network based resources<br />

• Central storage location for application<br />

data<br />

• Synchronization of directory updates<br />

amongst several servers<br />

• AD Installation, Administration &<br />

Management of AD DNS and Group<br />

Policies<br />

• User Administration, limited to creation<br />

of users, resetting of password etc<br />

• Administration and management of<br />

additional functions such as login scripts,<br />

home folders<br />

Benefits<br />

Increased Productivity<br />

Time taken to make system changes reduces<br />

dramatically thereby increasing productivity<br />

and effectiveness.<br />

Enhanced Business Value<br />

Your staff can focus on the core business<br />

while our skilled technical experts take care<br />

of the administration activities, all at a low<br />

monthly cost. This reduces your total cost of<br />

ownership thereby enhancing business value.<br />

High Availability<br />

Our skilled technical experts monitor and<br />

manage your critical business systems 24x7.<br />

This gives your business high availability<br />

that is imperative for success in today’s<br />

competitive environment.<br />

Quality of Service<br />

We can provide Service Level Agreements<br />

(SLAs) ensuring a high quality of service.


Consulting and Advisory Services<br />

Reduced risks and doing business knowing your data is secure<br />

Overview<br />

What are Consulting and Advisory<br />

Services?<br />

The global economy has changed the<br />

perspective of industry leaders in dealing<br />

with business risks, with both information<br />

and technology playing a key role in an<br />

organisation’s growth today. Today, information<br />

systems go beyond the purview of just the IT<br />

department. They have become mission critical<br />

to the survival of any organisation’s business.<br />

Consulting and Advisory Services are aimed<br />

at providing IT consulting services designed<br />

to present you with simple, user-friendly and<br />

easy to comprehend policies that drastically<br />

reduce risk, and an overall strategy that will<br />

maximize the protection of your company’s<br />

most valuable assets.<br />

Our offering<br />

We have a team of leading experts to analyze<br />

and identify threats to the information systems<br />

in your organisation and develop strategies<br />

to prevent infiltration and attacks, as well as<br />

ensure statutory and regulatory compliance to<br />

various standards and frameworks.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong>’s Consulting and Advisory<br />

Services team provides a wide variety of<br />

consulting and advisory services which<br />

include:<br />

1. Security Assessment<br />

a. Penetration Testing<br />

b. Vulnerability Assessment &<br />

Architecture Review<br />

c. Security Program Review (Policy,<br />

Process, Procedures, etc)<br />

d. Application Audit<br />

2. Enterprise Risk and Compliance<br />

a. Statutory and Regulatory Compliance<br />

b. Standards and Frameworks<br />

i. IT Service Management (ITSM) (ISO<br />

20000)<br />

ii. Business Continuity Management<br />

(BS 25999)<br />

iii. Information Security Management<br />

System (ISMS) (ISO 27001)<br />

iv. Quality Management System (ISO<br />

9001)<br />

3. Support Services<br />

a. Gap Analysis<br />

b. Internal Audit<br />

c. Risk Assessments<br />

d. Business Impact Analysis


Features<br />

1. Security Assessment<br />

a) Penetration Testing<br />

Regular penetration tests are an essential<br />

component of an information security<br />

program involving extensive analysis of<br />

security controls from the perspective of<br />

external and internal attackers.<br />

b) Vulnerability Assessment &<br />

Architecture Review<br />

Vulnerability Assessment involves security<br />

analysis of weaknesses prevalent in Servers,<br />

Desktops, Network and Security components<br />

whereas Architecture review involves<br />

reviewing the current security architecture<br />

design and implementation aspects.<br />

c) Security Program Review (Policy,<br />

Process, Procedures, etc.)<br />

It is based on ISO 27002: 2005 code<br />

of practice for information security<br />

management. Our teams perform a Gap<br />

Analysis to find out an organisation’s<br />

completeness and effectiveness based on<br />

the above. This includes reviews of security<br />

policies, processes, procedures and other<br />

related practices.<br />

d) Application Audit<br />

This involves a comprehensive review of the<br />

applications to check its security posture<br />

against well known threats.<br />

2. Enterprise Risk and Compliance<br />

a) Statutory and Regulatory<br />

Compliance<br />

We prepare organisations to identify<br />

potential gaps and have a mitigation plan for<br />

compliance by implementing strategic, tactical<br />

and operational controls such as Policies,<br />

Processes, Procedures etc. as part of an overall<br />

risk management plan.<br />

b) Standards and Frameworks<br />

We have expert consultants in IT related<br />

standards and frameworks critical for business<br />

profitability, productivity and efficiency. As<br />

complexities of IT tools, technologies and<br />

applications increase, they can be controlled<br />

by implementing standards and frameworks<br />

such as:<br />

i. IT Service Management (ITSM)<br />

(ISO 20000)<br />

The ITSM standard allows users to establish,<br />

manage, monitor and measure IT services.<br />

The framework allows costing, charging and<br />

budgeting of IT services against the respective<br />

activities.<br />

ii. Business Continuity Management<br />

(BS 25999)<br />

Business Continuity Management standard<br />

allows users to study, calculate and foresee


usiness impacts and risks on various scenarios.<br />

Acceptable risks and investments towards<br />

business continuity program are addressed<br />

through meeting requirements of the Business<br />

Impact Analysis (BIA).<br />

iii. Information Security Management<br />

System (ISMS) (ISO 27001)<br />

The ISMS standard provides a framework<br />

that controls the confidentiality, integrity and<br />

availability of all areas where information can<br />

be classified, categorised, labeled and protected<br />

against threats and vulnerabilities assessed<br />

against perceivable risks.<br />

iv. Quality Management (ISO 9001)<br />

Quality Management Standards can be applied<br />

for establishing, documenting, implementing<br />

and maintaining a Quality Management System<br />

standard framework which controls and achieves<br />

agreed specifications on products and services.<br />

3. Support Services<br />

The type of support services we provide against<br />

the mentioned standards and frameworks are (but<br />

not limited to) the following:<br />

a) Gap Analysis<br />

It is a holistic analysis of mandatory<br />

requirements as per the prescribed framework<br />

of various standards and is done in order to


verify the integrity of the framework and any<br />

deviations from it by comparing the mandatory<br />

requirements of the standard with those that are<br />

applied and running in the organisation.<br />

b) Internal Audit<br />

Through a yearly contract we provide an<br />

unbiased and comprehensive auditing service of<br />

your internal systems in order to ensure a higher<br />

degree of compliance within your organisation.<br />

c) Risk Assessments<br />

Our expert consultants have immense<br />

experience in formulating, planning and<br />

exercising a risk assessment by correlating the<br />

business, organisational and standard framework<br />

focus requirements.<br />

d) Business Impact Analysis (BIA)<br />

The relevant standards specify the focus areas<br />

and criteria for business impact analysis (BIA)<br />

for the relevant standards. BIA would arrive<br />

at the various risk factors for the organisation<br />

to consider and we can perform BIA against<br />

Quality, Security, IT Services and Business<br />

Continuity.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Data Centre Auditing & Consulting<br />

High-end consulting services for all your Data Centre needs<br />

Overview<br />

What is Data Centre Auditing &<br />

Consulting?<br />

Organisations having Data Centre<br />

requirements might be looking at building<br />

new Data Centres or optimising or upgrading<br />

their current facilities. Data Centre Auditing<br />

and Consulting services are aimed at both<br />

these kinds of requirements.<br />

Our Offering<br />

We provide Data Centre Consulting services<br />

in collaboration with German-based Schnabel<br />

AG, our strategic partners and a leading,<br />

specialized and vendor-independent Data<br />

Centre consulting, planning and engineering<br />

firm.<br />

We provide end-to-end solutions starting from<br />

needs assessment to design, implementation<br />

and training by leveraging Schnabel AG’s<br />

more than 30 years of experience in Data<br />

Centre planning for banks, telecommunication<br />

companies, utilities and other industries.<br />

This ensures smooth and seamless integration<br />

of technical systems like power supplies,<br />

generators, UPS, climate control, access<br />

control, fire detection and protection with<br />

other security-related elements thereby<br />

guaranteeing clients’ security and process<br />

requirements. In addition, our services are<br />

tailored to your organisation’s specific needs.<br />

Features<br />

In collaboration with our partners, Schnabel AG,<br />

we offer two types of Data Centre consulting<br />

services:<br />

1. New Data Centres: Plan / Build<br />

For customers planning to erect new Data<br />

Centres, we provide complete and integrated<br />

services from the first conceptual ideas to<br />

the final commissioning and handing over of<br />

the new Data Centre. This includes planning,<br />

designing, tendering and implementing of<br />

building infrastructure and technical facilities.<br />

Data integrity and security, availability of IT<br />

equipment and compliance with international<br />

standards (TIA 942 and others) are guaranteed<br />

according to the individual needs of each client.<br />

The steps include:<br />

Consulting<br />

• Needs assessment<br />

• Concept<br />

• Budgeting<br />

Design<br />

• Schematic and final drawings<br />

• Cost estimates<br />

• No Objection Certificates (NOCs) and<br />

permits from authorities and facilities<br />

• Tender documents<br />

Implementation<br />

• Tendering<br />

• Tender evaluation and contract awards


• Site supervision<br />

• Testing<br />

• Handover and certification<br />

• Documentation<br />

Operation<br />

• Development of Total Quality<br />

Management concept (TQM)<br />

• Preparation for certification (TIA 942,<br />

ISO 27001 : 2005, ISO 9001-2000,SOX)<br />

2. Existing Data Centres: Audit / Upgrade<br />

For customers already operating their own Data<br />

Centres, we provide consulting services with<br />

a view to identify shortcomings, problems and<br />

single points of failures. Appropriate measures<br />

for redesign and upgrading enable the client to<br />

operate his Data Centre according to defined<br />

availability standards and in compliance with<br />

existing service level agreements.<br />

The steps include:<br />

Consulting<br />

• Needs assessment<br />

• Audit - technical/structural (e.g. TIA 942)<br />

• Audit - organisational (ISO 27001 :<br />

2005, ISO 9001-2000, TQM, SOX)<br />

• Recommendations<br />

• Preparation for certification (TIA 942,<br />

ISO 27001 : 2005, ISO 9001-2000,<br />

SOX)<br />

Redesign<br />

• Schematic and final drawings<br />

• Cost estimates<br />

• Selection of suppliers and contractors<br />

Implementation<br />

• Supervision<br />

• Testing<br />

• Hand over and certification<br />

Update of documentation<br />

• Checking of existing documentation<br />

• Complementing the documentation<br />

Areas of Expertise<br />

• Project Management<br />

• Architecture and Civil Engineering<br />

• Interior Design<br />

• Technical Facilities (Power Supply,<br />

UPS, Standby Generator, Precision Air<br />

Conditioning)<br />

• Security and Safety Facilities (Fire Detection<br />

and Prevention, Access Control, CCTV,<br />

Intrusion Detection and Prevention)<br />

• Communication, Monitoring and<br />

Management Systems (Building<br />

Management, Emergency Management,<br />

IT Network, Service and Network<br />

Operation Centre (SOC / NOC))<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com


Disaster Recovery<br />

Ensuring the availability of critical systems with real-time replication<br />

and failover to managed disaster recovery site<br />

Overview<br />

What is Disaster Recovery?<br />

Disasters can happen in many ways and<br />

can disrupt or even completely devastate<br />

your business. These could be site outages,<br />

component outages or logical outages. In an<br />

increasingly uncertain world, organisations are<br />

becoming more reliant on technology. A failure<br />

of an organisation’s IT infrastructure can result in<br />

heavy loss of brand equity and revenue, missed<br />

opportunities and failed commitments.<br />

Data loss is increasingly becoming less<br />

acceptable because of the value of lost data and<br />

the inability to create it. Uninterrupted uptime<br />

and availability of mission critical data and<br />

applications is no longer a basic necessity, but<br />

has become an absolute business imperative.<br />

Disaster recovery (DR) is the process, policies<br />

and procedures related to preparing for recovery<br />

or continuation of technology infrastructure<br />

critical to an organisation after a natural or<br />

human-induced disaster.<br />

Our offering<br />

Our state-of-the-art Data Centres are the<br />

backbone of our disaster recovery services. We<br />

provide comprehensive end-to-end disaster<br />

recovery solutions for our customers. You can<br />

choose from our broad range of disaster recovery<br />

services.<br />

Our DR offering includes:<br />

• Disaster Recovery Consultancy<br />

• Comprehensive Hosted Disaster Recovery<br />

Solution<br />

• Disaster Recovery Sites<br />

• Disaster Recovery Seats<br />

Features<br />

1. Disaster Recovery Consultancy<br />

• Risk Analysis - Analysing the current<br />

environment to determine what threats<br />

may exist that could cause a disaster<br />

• Business Impact Analysis - Understanding<br />

and prioritising the risks that you need to<br />

mitigate<br />

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - The time<br />

taken to recover services and Recovery<br />

Point Objective (RPO) – how much data<br />

you are prepared to lose, is considered<br />

• Design Recovery Solution - Designing a<br />

disaster recovery solution that matches<br />

your business requirements<br />

• Disaster Recovery Planning and Testingl-<br />

Recovery procedures and information<br />

pertaining to a disaster recovery plan


2. Comprehensive Hosted Disaster<br />

Recovery Solution<br />

We offer a comprehensive disaster recovery<br />

solution in partnership with Double-Take®<br />

Software to perform real-time data and<br />

server replication to recover businesscritical<br />

systems, data and applications such<br />

as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and<br />

SharePoint in both physical and virtual<br />

environments in a simple and effective way<br />

using our hosted DR sites and Double-Take®<br />

Software data replication and workload<br />

optimization solutions.<br />

The managed disaster recovery and business<br />

continuity services can easily migrate, protect<br />

and recover data from local and distant sites,<br />

on both Windows and Linux platforms and<br />

across physical and virtual environments.<br />

• Migration - Migration of live server<br />

workloads across virtualization platforms<br />

• Availability - Replication of changes in<br />

real time to one or more servers at any<br />

location, locally or globally<br />

• Backup - Enabling full server backup and<br />

recovery for any-point-in-time recovery<br />

and storage optimization<br />

3. Disaster Recovery Sites<br />

We provide warm site and cold site DR<br />

solutions with a choice of our managed<br />

services at the DR sites.<br />

• Warm Site DR Solutions: These sites<br />

have hardware and connectivity already<br />

established, though on a smaller scale<br />

than the original production site.<br />

• Cold Site DR Solutions: These sites have<br />

virtualized or scaled down hardware<br />

enough to keep the business operations<br />

active during a disaster. Cold sites have<br />

backups that may be between several<br />

days and a week old and the data is<br />

restored and tested at regular intervals.<br />

Our Managed services at the DR site<br />

include:<br />

• Servers on a leased basis<br />

• Broadband Internet connectivity -<br />

redundant connectivity to the Internet<br />

• 24x7 system monitoring and<br />

management services<br />

• Application management (i.e.<br />

Databases, Messaging, Virtualization)<br />

• SAN storage services


• Managed security services including<br />

anti-virus, firewall management and network<br />

& host intrusion detection systems<br />

• Backup services include daily differential<br />

backups and full weekly backups – kept for a<br />

minimum of 30 days<br />

• Service Level Agreements (SLAs)<br />

• 24x7 Service Desk support<br />

• IT service management using ITIL (i.e.<br />

Problem Management, Incident Management,<br />

Release Management)<br />

• Remote hands for basic manual operations on<br />

the hosted infrastructure<br />

4. Disaster Recovery Seats<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> can offer a complete relocation<br />

solution to any business where workplace<br />

continuity is crucial. Our seats are fully equipped,<br />

business ready, comfortable and secure.<br />

The key features are:<br />

• Shared and Dedicated Seats<br />

• Connectivity with our Universal Data Centre<br />

• MPLS connectivity<br />

• LAN environment<br />

• 24x7 Service Desk (Incident Management,<br />

Problem Management, Change Management)<br />

• Dedicated telephone lines & billing<br />

• Access Cards / Biometric access systems<br />

• Boardrooms<br />

• Printer, Copier & Fax<br />

• Ample parking space<br />

Benefits<br />

Reduced Downtime<br />

A disaster recovery solution minimizes<br />

downtime and keeps your business up and<br />

running in the event of a disaster.<br />

Reduced Risks<br />

Managing your company’s IT infrastructure inhouse<br />

costs more and carries greater risk than<br />

using a Managed Hosting service provider.<br />

Core Business Focus<br />

With our DR services, your staff can focus<br />

on strategic activities rather than non-core<br />

activities of your business.<br />

Customized Solutions<br />

We offer tailored solutions specific to your<br />

business requirements and budgets.<br />

Quality of Service<br />

Guaranteed SLAs ensure quality of service.


Security<br />

With our state-of-the-art Data Centre<br />

infrastructure and backup and restore<br />

services, your business critical data and<br />

information are secure.<br />

24x7 Operations<br />

Round-the-clock managed operations and<br />

support ensure near-zero downtime.<br />

<strong>eHosting</strong> <strong>DataFort</strong> | Tel: +971 4 3913040 | Fax: +971 4 3913050 | Email: info@ehdf.com | www.ehdf.com

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