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Dr. Ahmed Ali Al Sharyan, Secretary-General of the National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA) received in his office, Mr. Sharif Tawfiq, General Manager of Microsoft Corporation in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Sultanate of Oman. In a joint press statement, NOGA and Microsoft Bahrain announced that the NOGA had chosen to move to the IT environment based Microsoft Solutions for private cloud computing (NOGA Private Cloud) to improve the quality of operations, facilitate work flow of the technical team and reduce costs: in infrastructure and specialized applications.

This project comes within the framework of the NOGA Strategic Plan for infrastructure and information technology upgrade in the oil and gas sector.

Dr. Al Sharyan said, “The NOGA is constantly working to modernize its technical infrastructure to be able to provide better services. For this purpose it has entered into a contract with Microsoft to provide solutions for homogeneous and integrated help to achieve our goals and meet the current business needs, with the scope of future expansion.”

Building cloud computing solutions involved using Microsoft Hyper server-V2 2012 and the Microsoft System Centre 2012 by NOGA to better manage technical resources and the technical environment of the NOGA. It would help better manage, control and enhance storage. It would ensure adequate working environment for employees in all departments, taking advantage of information technology.

The server capabilities of Microsoft Hyper-V2 2012 and Microsoft System Centre 2012 enable a mechanized environment for computing, storage, networking and resource sharing to achieve coherence and freedom to redefine work schedule even while travelling.

The large groups of remote servers used in Cloud Computing network are available over Internet, allowing centralised data storage, and online access to computer services and resources, maximising the effectiveness of the shared resources.

The adopted Microsoft solutions is not separate from the current system. It is an essential part of the work environment which has been built on the existing infrastructure without the need to rebuild the whole thing again. The Information Technology Working Group congratulated the Authority on their outstanding performance and great efforts during the project implementation, and said the team had achieved great success in swiftly moving NOGA to cloud computing.

Mr. Tawfiq praised NOGA’s efforts to develop its technical infrastructure and transition to cloud computing to promote its central role in the country’s economy. He said cloud computing would provide NOGA with smart solutions to respond to changes in the work environment and meet the emerging needs of speed and economy by restructuring its technical environment.