Ooredoo, a leading enabler of digital business innovation in the region, has won the prestigious “Cloud Innovator of the Year” award by Dell EMC, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure and innovative business solutions.

Qatar’s business leaders are rapidly adopting Ooredoo’s hybrid cloud solutions that optimise their business applications on public and private clouds, said a statement.

Moving to the cloud can enable organisations to optimise costs, foster collaboration, and drive digital business innovation, it said.

Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisy, chief operating officer, Ooredoo, said: “Our company winning the award is a remarkable achievement that underlines our responsibility to further expand our cloud service offerings to meet our business customers’ needs.”

“With Dell EMC’s cloud innovations, our business customers can enhance their storage, networking, and virtualisation to scale up and succeed in the digital economy,” he said.

As part of the judging panel, Dell EMC praised Ooredoo for being the region’s first telecommunications provider that will offer Microsoft Azure Stack hybrid cloud solutions through the Qatar Data Centre.

Ooredoo is seeing strong business demand for hyper-converged infrastructure solutions that run on Azure Stack, Redhat, and VMware digital platforms.

Aongus Hegarty, president - Europe, Middle East and Africa, Dell EMC, said: “Ooredoo’s Qatar Data Centre is the foundation for its success as a Dell EMC partner and in winning the award.”

“Qatar’s business customers are gaining new levels of agility, flexibility, and access, and will be able to scale their digital transformation to new heights and transform citizen and customer experiences across the country,” he added.

Ooredoo’s award win builds on the company recently achieving the Gold-tier Cloud Service Provider status with Dell EMC. Ooredoo gains the in-depth partner training and marketing resources that allow the company to better meet the digital business needs of its customers.

Business customers can leverage the Ooredoo Advantage, making Ooredoo “Best for Business”, thanks to its breadth and depth of talent, best fixed and mobile networks, broadest portfolio of ICT services and solutions, and trusted partner for 60 years, it said. – TradeArabia News Service