IHG director of technology MEA, Ali Saeb IHG director of technology MEA, Ali Saeb

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and HP Middle East have announced a broad technology agreement that will see IHG upgrade and streamline its existing technology infrastructure to address new business and growth opportunities.

The annual framework agreement with IHG, which is the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, covers IHG’s 77 hotels and resorts across the Middle East region.

The agreement includes products from HP’s Enterprise Business portfolio, comprising servers, data centre, storage and networking solutions.

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IHG director of technology MEA, Ali Saeb, said: “HP Middle East’s vision, product expertise, regional presence and most importantly, the team’s thorough understanding of our business needs, makes them a great addition to our technology partners.

“The team has helped us identify and customise the right solutions to address the needs of IHG’s various properties across the region. Through this partnership we aim to improve application and network performance and better manage our data centres, allowing us a competitive advantage within the region’s hospitality industry,” he added.

HP was selected by IHG as one of its preferred partners for its cost-effective and comprehensive solution that best fits the hotel’s technology needs in the region.

The implementation aims to allow IHG to deploy, automate and manage a complete range of applications side by side, within the same infrastructure, and significantly improve performance and availability of the most demanding application workloads.

“Our collaborative highly flexible, cost-effective services and solutions deliver a better user experience and more innovative platform, allowing customers such as IHG to seamlessly synchronise their overall business with a robust and dependable technology,” said Karam Jabi, channel and SMB business development manager, HP Middle East.