Dubai
Etisalat on Tuesday announced the launch of its first cloud service offering in UAE for small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprises.
Cloud Compute (Infrastructure as a Service) is a pay as you go model, reducing IT costs up to 60 per cent and time to market faster by up to 90 per cent.
“Enterprises today are adopting cloud computing as CIOs realise the strategic implications of the cloud-specifically how it is dramatically changing the IT department’s relationship with the business as a whole. The mature adopters understand that enterprise cloud computing will help them evolve from delivering ‘IT as usual’ to ‘IT as eagerly anticipated’,” said Abdullah Hashim, Senior Vice-President of ICT at Etisalat.
According to Gartner, the spending on cloud services is expected to increase compared to other areas in the IT marketplace. In the Middle East and North Africa region, growth is expected to be around 20.2 percent through 2016.
Etisalat new cloud service addresses this growth in the country by providing an on-demand subscription to a pool of configurable computing resources that can be shared or private.
Etisalat Cloud Compute offers easy access to infrastructure, ability to scale up or down rapidly based on demand and faster time to market than conventional hosting services.
It is hosted at the Etisalat Jebel Ali data centre.
“Etisalat works closely with these enterprises and realizes that these organisations want to leverage on cloud’s ever-expandable and always available infrastructure to speed the delivery and reliability of new and existing applications. IaaS is the new model of business computing whereby clients do not need to spend on Capex and manage challenges faced for time to market of their products and services,” said Hashim.
Etisalat currently offers three different cloud compute models - public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud.
