anb implements Disaster Recovery Orchestration and Automation with Kyndryl

anb, a Saudi banking institution, has announced a partnership with Kyndryl (NYSE), an IT infrastructure services company, to support its digital transformation and resilience strategy.

Since its inception in 1979, anb has been an early adopter of advanced technology with the goal of providing superior and secure customer experiences. As part of its ongoing digital efforts, the bank recognized the need to improve the resiliency of its IT systems and implement a disaster recovery orchestration solution to ensure higher levels of availability and continuity of services to its customers, even during a disaster.

Accordingly, anb entrusted Kyndryl to become its partner of choice and implement its Kyndryl Resiliency Orchestration solution, which is designed for the orchestration and automation of disaster recovery procedures. 

“Our customers are our top priority. As one of the leading banks in the Kingdom, we are constantly striving to provide them with nothing short of peace of mind,” says CIO, Naif Alharbi, anb. “To do this, we decided to partner with Kyndryl to further strengthen the resiliency of our IT systems, while eliminating redundancy and mundane tasks. Thanks to a successful implementation, we are already reaping the benefits of this investment and our customers are seeing significant improvement.”

Today, anb has access to a dashboard which enables the bank to monitor, automate, and manage all disaster recovery operations in real time, with little to no disruption to its operations or customer services. 

Also, through the solution’s intelligent automation capabilities, anb was able to reduce manual, and resource-intensive tasks, which meant faster recovery time and reduced human intervention and potential error. anb’s IT experts can also now focus their skills on the most pressing recovery needs during downtime.

“Having a robust resiliency plan is a necessity to ensure business continuity and uninterrupted operations in times of difficult or disaster,” said Mahmoud Badawi, Managing Director, Kyndryl Saudi Arabia and Egypt. “Kyndryl’s proven expertise, services, and technologies, coupled with a deep understanding of anb’s unique needs resulted in a pioneer implementation in KSA.”

anb is the first organization in KSA to implement Kyndryl’s patented Kyndryl Resiliency Orchestration.For more information about how Kyndryl is helping customers achieve business continuity through orchestrated and automated resiliency, please visit: https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/services/cyber-resilience/incident-recovery/resiliency-orchestration