GBM enhances Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters' IT infrastructure through newly signed MoU

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates -- 22 January 2014: Gulf Business Machines (GBM) and Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters (GHQ) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), reaffirming their commitment to a longstanding strategic relationship. As part of the agreement, GBM will implement upgrades of Abu Dhabi Police GHQ's IT infrastructure, including IBM servers, Cisco switches, virtual environment VMware, and secure cloud-ready solutions, to deliver unprecedented IT efficiency and flexibility to the governmental organization.

Colonel Barakat Al Kindy, Head of System Development Department at Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, and Cesare Cardone, Chief Executive Officer of GBM, signed the agreement during a an event in the presence of Miguel Khouri, Country General Manager, GBM Abu Dhabi, and Major Yaqoub Yousef Al Ahmed, Head of Operations Division at Abu Dhabi Police GHQ.

Commenting on the partnership, Major Al Ahmed said: "We have enjoyed a very successful partnership with GBM for several years leading to vast improvements to our IT infrastructure. We are positive that this new collaboration will again deliver key benefits within the organization, helping to increase overall efficiency and improve our services to the public," said Major Al Ahmed.

The deployment of the project will enable Abu Dhabi Police GHQ to host and run its operations internally with the highest levels of availability and resiliency. Additionally, GBM will provide the latest cloud-enabled solutions, which will not only help optimize productivity but improve the scalability of the overall IT system.

"At GBM, our objective is to always deliver services and solutions that are tailored to not only fulfill our customers' needs but add value, which is why we have been selected by Abu Dhabi Police GHQ.  We share a longstanding relationship with Abu Dhabi Police GHQ and we are pleased to be renewing this partnership, which underscores their confidence in our expertise and our commitment to providing them with what's best in the IT world," said Khouri.

GBM has also provided value added solutions and services for the Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, such as supporting its data center facilities and IT infrastructure IBM servers, Cisco switches and virtual environment VMware.

About Gulf Business Machines (GBM)
Founded in 1990, Gulf Business Machines (GBM) is the leading IT solutions provider in the region fulfilling the IT requirements of local, regional and international organizations in the GCC.

GBM is the sole distributor for IBM- excluding selected IBM products and services -throughout the GCC, except for Saudi Arabia. GBM's momentum was further enhanced in 1999, when the team secured the Cisco portfolio. Today GBM holds the highest level of recognition in the region from Cisco, Gold Partner status, in addition to the Cisco Borderless Network Architecture Specialized Learning Partner status.

GBM offers an extensive range of IT infrastructure, IT solutions and services ranging from consulting, resource deployment and integration to after-sales support, through 1000 professionals and over 20 solid strategic partnerships forged with internationally-recognized IT solution providers.

The company, which is ISO-9001 certified since 1999, has offices in the UAE (Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain. GBM also has established a presence in Pakistan, where the company now operates three offices, one each in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore as an IBM Premier Business Partner. The Pakistani operation also holds a Silver Partner Status from Cisco.

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For further information, please contact:
Mai Al-Jishi
Corporate Communications
Gulf Business Machines
Tel: +973 17584333
Email: M.ALJISHI@bh.gbm.ihost.com

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