applications over Internet. From beginning, ASPGulf’s services were designed to trim down complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprise computing while improving the quality of IT services for small-to-medium size businesses.

ASPGulf realigned its Services to the market needs and became platform-agnostic by providing Managed Services for any vertical or horizontal applications on Microsoft Windows, Linux & Solaris platforms. Over the years, ASPGulf has earned its distinguished position as one of the most preferred provider of managed hosting services for all types and sizes of businesses, currently with over 300+ servers under management in its world-class data centers.

ASPGulf is part of Al Bawardi Enterprises (AE) Group head quartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE. AE Group enjoys an impeccable pedigree, soaring reputation and solid financial base. The Group is known for its successful track records in all its spheres of businesses locally, regionally and globally. The coveted accomplishments and accolades earned by AE Group as a whole will corroborate the solid edifice on which ASPGulf is built.

As a trusted provider to manage the Clients’ onsite infrastructure, hosted infrastructure and business applications, ASPGulf has embarked on a unique methodology to transform all available corporate resources and energies toward satisfying their strategic business objectives. ASPGulf helps insulate its Clients’ from fiscal and operational impacts of technology obsolescence by providing those with scalable infrastructure to match their growth and to ensure that the offered Services will continue to meet the highest possible performance and universally accepted security levels and standards.

In addition to Managed Services as a core Service offering, ASPGulf also provisions Professional Services in the field of: (a) consulting, (b) technical and (c) application design & development. Consulting Services include: requirements study and solutions-architecting. Technical Services include: implementation of the solution proposed or new functionality; managing the production site; roll-out of application; review and audit of IT practices. Application Development Service includes: scoping & sizing, proto-typing, coding and deployment of web-based application.

With more than 100-man-years combined experience in-house, ASPGulf is certain that it will continue to earn its clients’ trust by delivering real, measurable business benefits and substantial cost-savings on infrastructure costs and IT skills.

Pioneers of the trade ASPGulf has established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the Managed Services arena. Light-years ahead of its peers, ASPGulf are geared to service Clients with its flexible, customizable Manage Services that are suitable for the Pan-Arab/Middle East region and coupled with consultative selling and partnership approach to the market space. This unique business mindset and approach has lead to its unconditional and universal acceptance by the IT fraternity in the Middle East.

Practice of proven methodology ASPGulf practices the proven sales methodology of: (a) understanding the business drivers; (b) understanding the current & future requirements, the work environment and specific concerns; (c) right-sized solutions that actually work in a production environment; (d) and genuinely putting itself in the shoes and wallet of the Client.

ASPGulf understands that the application reigns supreme and all layers below it must synergistically function to support the application in a production environment. The above process involves high-level understanding of the application which includes its functional overview, functional components and certified environment. During the Discovery phase, while understanding the business drivers or imperatives, ASPGulf attempts to identify the: (a) pains & concerns; (b) improvement in the business processes; (c) potential realignment of costs. ASPGulf is the region’s first ISO 9001:2000 certified (recently recertified for ISO 9001:2008) for its internal as well data centre processes and currently in the process of getting certified for ISO 27001 and ISO 20000.

Flexible Hosting Solution Offers ASPGulf offers a wide-array of Managed Services flavours which encompasses: (a) Dedicated Hosting — Physical Servers; (b) Dedicated Hosting — Virtual Private Servers; (c) Co-location Hosting; (d) Shared Hosting; (e) pure Managed Service with no hosting component (for select opportunities); (f) Managed Services at the client site (for select opportunities); and (g) any combination of Services. In addition, ASPGulf provisions Disaster Recovery Services, Mirror-Sites or Replication sites and Managed Storage Services (using de-duplication). ASPGulf also manages the application-layer for select applications including: Microsoft Exchange, VMware, Citrix, Plesk, mDaemon, At Mail, etc.

Data Centre Facilities ASPGulf’s Data Centre facility is at par with international standards. The Internet feed comprises of collective feeds via multiple STM-4 connections with multiple redundancy between the data center and EMEX and between Dubai & Abu Dhabi. Power is backed by twin primary feeders, a high capacity bank of diesel generators, UPS Systems and battery banks. The air-conditioning systems closely monitor and regulate temperature and humidity. The facility has physical and electronic security which includes 24x7 security personnel, access card readers, biometric scanners and video camera surveillance. The fire protection system includes high-sensitivity smoke detectors and high-speed-deployment fire suppression gas. Above all, to ensure that the protective measures are in tact and flawless and fully functional, periodic mock drills are also done. All exercises are always done with our clients in mind.