OREANDA-NEWS. BT announced a contract with the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) to provide a managed end-to-end networked IT services solution to the bank's new financial hub in London. The new London facilities will serve as the main hub for NBAD's expansion in Europe. NBAD has been operating in London since 1977.

This adds to a 2012 contract between BT and NBAD for managed network services, linking the bank's centralised IT services from its data centre in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to twelve branches of its international network.

In addition, customers of NBAD will gain access to trading applications and services via the BT Radianz Cloud from the bank's new London based hub. NBAD has been accessing services via the BT Radianz Cloud at the bank's trading floor in the UAE since 2012. The BT Radianz Cloud supports the largest secure networked financial services community in the world.

The contract announced today supports NBAD's objective to create a single managed network to ensure a consistent quality of connection between its London office and its branches in the UAE. This will help NBAD to optimise performance, better track costs, and improve its security profile.

Under the terms of the new contract, BT will also provide NBAD with a range of additional services, including managed data centre services from the BT Compute portfolio, managed IP telephony from the BT One portfolio, converged LAN services and managed WAN services from the BT Connect portfolio, business continuity services and managed security services from the BT Assure portfolio.