Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily), a leading Saudi-based mobile services operator, said it has joined the VMware vCloud Air Network as an enterprise level service provider.

The vCloud Air Network provides organizations with VMware-based enterprise-class security and infrastructure compatibility, with the freedom to readily move workloads among private, public and hybrid clouds, said a company statement.

Using proven VMware technology customers already use in their existing data centers, the vCloud Air Network Service Providers can accelerate their business growth by offering customers trusted and secure public and hybrid cloud services.

As an enterprise partner, VMware recognises Mobily as a solution provider that can deliver comprehensive VMware solutions and services to customers on the journey to cloud computing. Mobily has demonstrated a broad range of expertise and the ability to best better serve their customers’ needs in data center, cloud and end-user computing solutions, it stated.

"We are pleased to announce this partnership with VMware, and we also endeavor to enhance our business advance solutions with the VMware Partner Network in order to keep the Saudi market updated with the latest technologies," remarked Maziad Alharbi, the acting chief technology officer at Mobily.

"The innovative spirit of Mobily drives the company to provide the Saudi market with state-of-the-art solutions, especially with the local market considered as one of the most sophisticated and dynamic ones in the region," he noted.

Graham Crich,  the director, Cloud and Service Provider Partners, EMEA, “Since 2008, VMware has been working with the service provider community to provide customers with a simple and flexible path to the cloud, and we are pleased to have Mobily as a part of this global network.”

“We welcome Mobily to the vCloud Air Network, which enables customers to easily and securely extend their data centres to the cloud, using the same trusted infrastructure they’ve been using on-premises,” said Reeman Ansari, the manager (Partner Organisation) Mena at VMware.

The vCloud Air Network supports customers with increased service flexibility, greater options for global cloud services and the choice of local service provider partners in more than 100 countries globally.-TradeArabia News Service