Virtustream, the
leading provider of enterprise class cloud software and
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), has partnered with Etihad Etisalat (Mobily),
the leading telecommunications company in Saudi Arabia, to provide enterprise
cloud services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The public and hybrid cloud
services will be jointly provided by Mobily and Virtustream and will offer
world-class cloud services to enterprises and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).
Mobily has selected Virtustream's xStream cloud management software to run its
public and hybrid clouds.
KSA businesses are now able to move mission-critical
applications, both legacy and webscale, to the Mobily/Virtustream cloud,
including applications like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and hundreds of existing
applications, without needing to rewrite the software to gain the cloud benefits
of dynamic, multi-tenant efficiency, massively scalable and on demand
IT.
The Mobily/Virtustream Cloud Service offers enterprise class
public and hybrid cloud services delivering businesses greatly improved IT
efficiency, application level performance SLAs, consumption based pricing and
high levels of enterprise security and compliance. This brings together the
best-in-class Virtustream xStream cloud management software with Mobily data
centers across KSA inclusive of their state-of the-art, high speed connectivity.
The Mobily/Virtustream alliance will target all enterprises
across the region with the mission of enabling world-class IT without the
up-front investment. Public cloud IaaS savings can be greater than 50 percent
due to the elimination of in-house hardware, maintenance, deployment and staff
hours as well as the ease of scalability.
As businesses commence or continue their journey to the
cloud, Mobily/Virtustream's professional services can offer cloud strategy
development, migration assistance and even a fully managed service to tailor and
maximize the impact of cloud technology for any given organization. A complete
portfolio of public and hybrid cloud services are available for all applications
- production and test/dev - with extensive backup and disaster recovery, while
meeting extremely high and exacting security and compliance standards.
"The Mobily/Virtustream cloud platform provides
enterprise-class cloud services in the Middle East," said Dr. Marwan al Ahmadi,
chief business officer at Mobily. "We look forward to working with Virtustream
to provide our customers with best-in-class enterprise cloud solutions that are
the first of their kind in the KSA market."
Virtustream was chosen by Mobily as a strategic partner for
its enterprise cloud business expertise, for the xStream software and for a
broad range of US and EMEA services that will complement the Mobily/Virtustream
Cloud. Virtustream's extensive enterprise customer base of leading Fortune 1000
businesses will help to accelerate success in the KSA.
"We see this as the perfect time for cloud services in the
region and the alliance of Mobily and Virtustream in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
presents tremendous opportunities," said Rodney Rogers, chairman and CEO at
Virtustream. "Mobily is a leader in the telecommunications industry, and the
best possible partner for Virtustream. The power of Mobily's fiber and mobile
networks and world class data centers behind a proven enterprise class cloud
solutions makes this offering truly unique."