Occidental Oman Partners with Oman Data Park to Collocate its Datacenter

DUBAI, UAE - July 15, 2014 - PRLog -- MUSCAT, Oman - Occidental of Oman Inc. (Oxy Oman) has signed an agreement with Oman Data Park (ODP) to collocate Oxy’s data centre operations in ODP’s hosting center.

Oxy Oman has outsourced the building, managing and administering of its data centre to ODP. ODP is the first cloud service provider in Oman and offers state of the art facilities. This tier 3 hosting center includes fully redundant communications, power, fire suppression and cooling systems.

Commenting on the partnership, ODP’s Managing Director Mr. Alain Sawaya said “Cloud computing has changed the way businesses in Oman operate and has transformed IT as a utility. We are proud to be part of the transformation and a key driving force in Oman as we continue to offer unique and differentiated IT services.”

“We are proud to partnering with a local company to strengthen Oxy Oman’s IT infrastructure. This is another example of Oxy Oman’s support to the Sultanate’s In-Country Value initiative by the Ministry of Oil and Gas and OPAL”, said Mr Isam Al Zadjali, President & General Manager of Oxy Oman.

About Occidental of Oman Inc.

Occidental of Oman Inc. (Oxy Oman) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) (http://www.oxy.com/Pages/Home.aspx), an international oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, Middle East/North Africa and Latin America regions.

Oxy’s Oman operations are concentrated at the Mukhaizna Field in south-central Oman, and the Safah and Wadi Latham fields and Block 62 in northern Oman. During its more than 30-year tenure in Oman, Oxy has increased production and reserves, and today is one of the country’s largest oil producers.

About Oman Data Park

Oman Data Park is a joint venture between Omantel, a leading telecom services provider in Oman and 4Trust LLC, a leading Data Centre company in Oman. Oman Data Park is an on demand IT service provider with services including Managed Hosting, Cloud Services, Hosted Applications and Managed Services.

Oman Data Park brings in extraordinary level of performance rating by providing a resilient, fault tolerant infrastructure, redundant capacity systems and multiple distribution paths instantaneously serving the business. The state-of-the-art redundant systems with an integrated facility management infrastructure that guarantees uptime, ensures comprehensive data protection and provides exceptional responsiveness, so that customers can optimize its IT efficiency while focusing on its core business.

ODP leverages its Data Center to deliver the highest levels of security and operational dependability by providing relief from the efforts associated in managing an on premise Data Center Facility.