Mobily-Virtustream boost cloud computing services
March 27, 2013
Grazed from ArabNews. Author: RD Rasooldeen.
Mobily’s new cloud computing service will offer its customers enhanced security and efficiency at an attractive price, Marwan Al-Ahmadi, Mobily’s chief business officer (CBO), said in Riyadh.
Al-Ahmadi was speaking at a press conference held in Riyadh following the launch of advanced public and hybrid cloud computing services for the business sector in the Kingdom, in cooperation with Virtustream.
Rodney J. Rogers, Virtustream chairman and CEO, was also present at the event. The conference comes following the strategic alliance agreement signed by both companies earlier this year in which public and hybrid cloud computing services were jointly built and provided by Mobily and Virtustream…
“Under the program, the data center is located in the Kingdom and also the cloud space is available within the country, hence there is no chance for information to be leaked out to other parties,” the Mobily official said. He said the data is further encrypted to ensure secrecy of the data. He also said the new program would also offer training opportunities for Saudi youths to become specialists in cloud computing…
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