Under the terms of the 15-year agreement, the two companies will work together to implement data center applications for the aviation sector. The systems that drive all of Qatar Airways’s businesses, including flight operations, finance, human resources and internet bookings, will be operated from the Qtel data center and managed by Qatar Airways’s IT department ensuring comprehensive connectivity, security and protection for the airline.
During the first phase of the strategic relationship, Qtel will support the migration of Qatar Airways’s IT systems from its data center at the airline’s Doha headquarters over to Qtel’s facility in Doha.
For the next phase, Qtel may enable the establishment of a secondary site as a backup for the main center, and the creation of a global data recovery site for Qatar Airways outside Qatar.
Qatar Airways’s international operations will be supported with network connectivity provided by Qtel’s strategic partnership with AT&T, which positions Qtel’s Qatar data center in Doha as the key Middle East node within AT&T’s global network.
