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March 2013: BIOS become SFDC certified.

In line with our vision as a cloud and system integrator, BIOS have made the investments and undertaken the certifications necessary to become a Certified Salesforce partner.

For more information on our vision of a ‘Cloud Powered Business’ Please click here!

March 2013 International SOS upgrade Cisco IT infrastructure with BIOS.

International SOS with over 10,000 employees working in 70 countries, are the world’s leading international healthcare, medical assistance, and security services company. If you’re injured and you need help – these are the people you want to have your back.

International SOS’s UAE operation is expanding exponentially and as a result they asked BIOS to upgrade their IT infrastructure to a high performance Cisco network.

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February 2013: SEPCOIII go to the cloud with BIOS and Documentum.

SEPCOIII, one of the world’s largest Engineering Companies is renound for building power stations. The spectrum of SEPCOIIIs business spans coal, oil, gas-fired thermal power plants, as well as hydropower, solar, wind, and biomass based power generation.

SEPCOIII were looking to implement a Document Management Solution, in a very short time frame to support their projects across the middle east and they needed it to be highly customizable. The solution? Cloud based Documentum by EMC from BIOS.

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January 2013: Barclays selects BIOS to implement its fusion project for the Middle East.

Barclays select BIOS to implement their fusion project in the Middle East. This Global project, designed to improve business agility and efficiency is based around updating their datacenter infrastructure.  BIOS will be responsible for delivering and supporting the project for the Middle Easts banks operation.

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December 2012: BIOS signs partnership agreement with Levono

BIOS is proud to announce that we have accepted as a Lenovo partner. This new relationship allows us to offer this great range of products to our clients at reduced prices. “The Lenovo product range is our first stop for any new hardware requirement for our clients because of the quality of product and support that Lenovo offer, this new agreement will allow us to offer an improved service to our clients”.

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November 2012: BIOS has achieved the Gold Partner status within the Hitachi Data Systems channel program.

With the focus on delivering the highest quality of Infrastructure solutions to its customers and prospects, BIOS has decided to enter into an agreement with Hitachi Data Systems, a fully owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. Gold Partners comply with the high quality assurances that Hitachi Data Systems puts in place within its partner program. “

The Gold partner status provides various advantages, such as early access to new products and solutions, direct access to the Hitachi Data Systems organization and its partners to provide the highest standard solutions, as well as a wide and clear understanding of the various solutions Hitachi Data Systems brings to the market.

The combination of the various skills and thorough knowledge of different technologies, together with the high quality solutions and products of Hitachi Data Systems, BIOS is able to provide to the customers unique solutions, that drives the operational costs significantly down, as well as having a drastically increased Return on Investment.

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September 2012: BIOS Managed Service offering gathers pace with 2 big wins. 

BIOS wins Aujan Industries Infrastructure Managed Services Contract

BIOS has wins managed service contract from Aujan Industries.

Aujan, the Billion dollar drinks manufacture, famed for such brands as Rani, Barbican and Vimto, has selected BIOS as its IT support partner.

The deal means BIOS will support Aujan’s IT infrastructure that serves the more than 2500 employees at manufacturing facilities in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai, UAE.

BIOS wins Choueiri managed services contract

Choureri, is a leading media representation group in the GGC. Their move to a managed service IT solution was driven by a desire to lower IT costs, remove day-to-day maintenance tasks from their in-house IT team to allow them to focus on strategy and application development, improve their disaster recovery capabilities, improve their IT support and service delivery without having to employ extra (and more skilled) IT staff members, to refresh aging hardware and software, and to facilitate more flexibility for staff, including remote working.

The hybrid on & off premise solution means that BIOS are now responsible for monitoring the entire infrastructure and will also be providing and managing an ‘off premise' virtual platform.

BIOS managed service guarantees improved reliability for Choueiri, with IT uptime SLAs written in to the contract.

BIOS's support department will be monitoring Choueiri entire IT estate; BIOS Gold support means that they will now be responsible for proactive monitoring, reactive support & comprehensive reporting to deliver the highest levels of service.

August 2012: AECOM invests in new GCC Flexpod infrastructure solution from BIOS

With approximately 45,000 employees around the world, AECOM, A Fortune 500 company serves clients in approximately 130 countries and is a leader in professional technical and management support services in the fields of transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government.

BIOS have begun rolling out a AECOM’s new infrastructure that will replace the firm’s existing distributed systems, and deliver cost savings and improved performance, preparing them for future IT projects.

AECOM will establish two data centers which will provide coordinated and resilient IT services to their 12 offices across the Middle East. BIOS was engaged to implement their award-winning flexpod data center design at both locations.

The new infrastructure consists of Cisco UCS Blades, NetApp storage, full VMware virtualization and Cisco Nexus switches. The combined benefits of consolidated storage from NetApp’s de-duplication and thin provisioning with VMware’s virtualization technology will reduce the physical server count from 90 distributed across the region, to 10 in total. This will save AECOM money in a number of ways: a reduction in cabling, power and cooling required for the data center, a reduction in maintenance needs and therefore costs, a reduction in management time required to maintain this part of the network and a reduction in future capital expenditure.

Disaster recovery capabilities have been revolutionized. In the past, a critical incident would have left AECOM with significant work to recover critical systems from tape. Now with the efficiency of NetApp SnapManager and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) the systems can be fully restored in a fraction of the time, saving significant work and limited availability of the systems in the meantime. Tape, a major headache for such a large organization is now almost totally redundant and only used for archiving and compliance purposes.

AECOM will also benefit from the general improvements made to their systems by running a next-generation FlexPod design: a faster network offering improved service for their end-users, reduced points of management for the IT team leading to fewer routine daily tasks, increased scalability and security of the network.

Dominic Docherty, MD of BIOS, said “This is an excellent deployment that will help AECOM to continue to remain at the top of their game. Once again we are seeing Flexpod save money for one of our customers and improve their levels of IT performance and service delivery to both their business, and their clients. It is great to see that AECOM will have a secure and stable platform upon which to build for their future IT needs.”

June 2012: Control Risks select BIOS for IP Telephony role out 

BIOS have been awarded the design, implementation and support contract for Cisco IP Telephony.

May 2012: Sarasin Bank Select BIOS to build their DR 

Leading private Swiss bank, Sarasin, selects BIOS to design, implement and manage their Disaster Recovery Solution. BIOS is proud to be trusted yet again - with such a high level of responsbility by Bank Sarasin. 

April 2012: BIOS awarded office of the future for Booz & Co

The global consulting firm Booz&Co are relocating their Middle Eastern HQ to DIFC. The scope for the new office was to create an office of the future, where the space is used intelligently for collaboration and efficiency through technology. The selected design proposed by BIOS includes touch screen room reservation system, with interactive whiteboards, office environment automation and fully integrated voice, video, data network to allow users to collaborate with people all over the region in real time.

March 2012: Dubai Government VDI project

BIOS has been selected to provide a VDI environment for a prominant Dubai Government entity. The solution is based on VMware View 5 and EMC VNX storage. Initially the environment will be rolled out to 50 users as a pilot then extended to over 300 users following a successful adoption phase. The government body will save approximately 150,000 AED per year in desktop replacement costs over the next 3 years by implementing this strategy.

March 2012: Sea Sands Shipping goes to the Cloud

Sea Sands Shipping a UAE based shipping company have operated for over 25 years from the Gulf to China. They have recently taken the step to move their company email and remote backup to Go Cloud. The reduction in operational maintenance costs for managing email throughout 9 offices around the world provides them with increased service and an ROI of less than 12 months.

January 2012: BIOS signs Dubai Government consultancy contract

BIOS has been selected by a Dubai Government entity as the consultancy partner for storage and virtualization. The deal is a landmark agreement where BIOS will set up multiple labs and scenarios to test different applications, particularly from a security standpoint and help with documenting findings to set policies for other entities around deploying virtual environments.

January 2012: Mace Macro Goes Cloud

Mace Macro facilities management are expanding their reach in the region having won some major contracts. To meet their growing business needs they have partnered with BIOS to provide a local private cloud to host their applications and are leveraging Go Cloud from BIOS for offsite data storage and DR. This innovative solution has not been seen before in the Middle East and both BIOS and Mace are an example to their industry peers of how modern IT should be delivered.

January 2012: Dubai Petroleum optimises with Silverpeak

Following a successful PoC Dubai Petroleum has rolled out Silverpeak WAN optimisation technology to all it's remote oil rigs for improved connectivity to the main HQ in Dubai. Silverpeak was chosen because it is the only WAN optmiser to work at Layer 3 and optimise all traffic over the network, thus future proofing the environment for any new initiatives from Dubai Petroleum.

December 2011: ATKINS chooses Aerohive

ATKINS the multinational engineering and design consultancy who designed the Dubai Metro have chosen Aerohive as their wireless technology of choice for Qatar operations. The cost-effective 802.11N wireless technology supports their needs for a easy to maintain and deploy wireless solution that can be scaled on demand and managed from the UAE.

November 2011: BIOS enters the online digital media age!

BIOS was selected as the system integrator of choice for one of the regions leading television broadcasters to implement their online digital media infrastructure. All the content to be broadcast over the internet will run from one of BIOS's Go Private Cloud implementations, leveraging the latest cloud technology such as virtual load balancers and virtual security appliances.

October 2011: BIOS wins M.E. Symantec SEP.Cloud Contract

CRM Group have chosen Symantec.Cloud SEP for endpoint protection for all 250 remote users around the Middle East. CRM have pockets of users in some of the most challenging locations in the world, with limited bandwidth and access SEP.Cloud provides the perfect endpoint protection solution.

Centrally managed by Group IT in Dubai, CRM can set the security policies for all it's remote users from the cloud, without having to deploy a single piece of infrastructure. The low monthly cost helps operationalise the cost of IT security and reduce the cost of management associated to physically travelling to each location to deploy the software.

October 2011: BIOS Announces F5 ARX Partnership

BIOS are now partnered with F5 ARX to provide File System Virtualization.

F5 ARX file virtualization devices enable you to dramatically simplify data management and reduce storage costs. By introducing intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, ARX eliminates the disruption associated with storage administration and automates many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in cost, agility, and business efficiency.

ARX can provide storage tiering, high-availability, load balancing, improved backup performance and access to the cloud. For more information request a meeting today.

September 2011: Major Defense Contractor selects BIOS to implement 'Flexpod'

September 2011: BIOS wins Citrix Xendesktop Implementation

September 2011: Coca Cola is IT

August 2011: Leading oilfield services provider Al Mansoori 'Go Virtual' with BIOS

Innovative leading oilfield services provider Al Mansoori 'Go Virtual' wth BIOS. Using VMware to consolidate their servers, and Netapp for back-up and replication.

July 2011: BIOS Deliver's Gulf's First FLEXPOD

BIOS wins the Gulf's first FLEXPOD deal for DanaGas in Sharjah.
FLEXPOD is a collaboration between NetApp, Cisco and VMware to provide a fully virtualized architecture based on 10GBE backbone with ultra-powerful stateless blade technology running VMware on virtualized storage. This solution will provide DanaGas with a true private cloud which will support their goals around cost saving, disaster recovery and ensuring availability of applications for the business.