Saudi Telecom Company (STC) located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has chosen Cisco technology solutions to introduce managed data center services to the Saudi market. The contract will help Saudi Cloud Hosting to progress.

Samir Matboly, vice president, Enterprise Business Unit, STC “The STC’s goal is to provide integrated communications services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by continuously to responding to market requirements, and keeping abreast of developments in technology to enable us to meet the needs of our customers. The Cisco team has demonstrated the ability to provide the STC Data Center 3.0 vision and technology solutions to equip us with the right technology for managed data center services and cloud computing.”

Highlights / Key Facts:

--  The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, formed jointly by
    Cisco, EMC and VMware, represents an unprecedented level of
    collaboration in development, services, and partner enablement that
    will help to reduce the infrastructure virtualization risks the STC
    could face in private cloud implementation.
--  Cisco partner Wipro, a leading global provider of integrated business,
    technology and process solutions, will deliver the Cisco
    infrastructure to the STC. The Cisco global and regional team, focused
    on service provider data center cloud, in collaboration with the
    regional VCE team conducted a series of dedicated data center focused
    workshop sessions to share best practices in designing and operating
    data center solutions with the STC. They also provided a Saudi market
    specific services creation and market demand analysis for revenue
    calculations.
--  Cisco's data center services will help to lower power costs as well
    manage and measure the STC's IT operational expenses while increasing
    support for virtual desktops and mission-critical applications and
    also meeting or exceeding end-user demands
--  Cisco managed data center services will enable the STC to focus their
    resources on core competencies by providing centralized application
    provisioning, patch management, monitoring, and support. The Cisco IP
    Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) will assist the STC to
    cost-effectively provide these services.
--  The agreement will encompass the deployment of a number of Cisco
    Unified Computing solution technologies within the STC's data center
    to include the Cisco Unified Computing System chassis, blade servers,
    SAN Switches, EMC Storage and Backup and VMware vSphere.

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