Jawraa, Saudi based ICT leader, with Crayon Arabia, the operating arm of Crayon Middle East in Saudi Arabia, will deploy cloud services in the kingdom, funded and supported by Microsoft Arabia.

“The Saudi market needs local cloud solutions and we are proud to engage with Crayon to deploy the first Microsoft Cloud Services to help local corporates, SMEs and Government agencies,” said Jawraa CEO Yasser Alobaidan.

“The market can now leverage on high availability, resilience, economical and more secure local cloud service and get latest Microsoft solutions via the cloud.”

Joachim Hagström, Crayon Middle East CEO said: “we work closely with Microsoft to offer competitive packaging of solutions and services for our hosting partners pursuing solutions to meet their customers hybrid computing needs.”

“Our expertise in developing and implementing heterogeneous, enabled and proactive platforms, delivering resilient IT infrastructure for various projects; coupled with Microsoft cloud technology offering, qualified us as the most eligible partner to transact this project.

“We are extremely proud to add Jawraa to our roster of partners in Saudi Arabia, and we look forward to deliver outstanding results and a long-term partnership with more opportunities to come,” he added.

The implementation of the Cloud OS Network will enable Jawraa to leverage the innovation of this solution across the datacenter and the cloud, and start offering customers a range of new cloud services based on Microsoft new datacenter technologies, while enhancing overall business operations and service delivery competitiveness.

“Jawraa is an important partner in widening the delivery of the cloud in Saudi Arabia,” said Samir Noman, president of Microsoft Arabia. “Microsoft’s cloud technologies pooled with Crayon’s effectual practices in designing and implementing cloud infrastructure for service providers in the region, together with our experts’ understanding of the local market, will be the key to facilitating establishing Jawraa’s cloud offering built on Microsoft’s technology in Saudi.”

Crayon’s engagement will entail a wide scope of tasks, the first phase to start with the environment analysis, and designing the implementation course and the project architecture.

Environment deployment, set-up, and configuration will follow in the proceeding phase to follow; Microsoft Exchange, Lync, Dynamics ERP and other Microsoft applications, along with tailor-made system center training with knowledge transfer and deployment support to wrap up the delivery process of the implementation work.

Microsoft’s cloud technologies pooled with Crayon’s effectual practices in designing and implementing cloud infrastructure for service providers in the region, and the understanding of its experts of the local market requisites, and the localization of client servicing, will facilitate the shift of Jawraa’ IT operation towards the cloud.

Cloud OS Network (COSN) Transform The Datacenter implementation is expected to optimize Jawraa’ software licensing investment, qualify growth opportunities and reduce IT infrastructure and datacenter management expenditures.  – TradeArabia News Service