Batelco, NBB Group sign deal | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Batelco, NBB Group sign deal | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Both Batelco and National  Bank of Bahrain Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to for- malize plans that will see the Group's core IT infrastructure being moved and hosted within Batelco's Hamala Data Center.

NBB officials signed the deal during a visit to the newly opened Batelco Data Center in Hamala - the ‘largest' enterprise Data Center in Bahrain.

With an area of 12,236 square meters, the Center has a total capacity of 2.7 megawatts to service 250 working racks.

Batelco CEO, Mikkel Vinter, and General Manager of Enterprise, Abderrahmane Mounir, welcomed NBB's Group Chief Operating Officer Ian Blacklaw, Razi Amin, Head of Information Technology at NBB, and Osama Ali Nasr, Chief Information Officer at Bahrain Islamic Bank.

Commenting, Iain Blacklaw, Group Chief Operating Officer at NBB, said: “The current shift is a strategic