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Zain Kuwait announces
expanded cloud offerings
with Oracle FastConnect
Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom
company based in Kuwait and gold level
member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN),
has announced it will offer dedicated and
private access to Oracle Cloud through
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect,
becoming one of the first mobile operators
in the region to receive this accreditation.
The elevation of Zain to becoming a gold
level member with Oracle means the telco can
now connect customers directly with Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure including to applications
such as compute, storage and content
delivery, databases and other services.
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Commenting on the Oracle FastConnect
relationship, Henri Kassab, Zain Group’s
Managing Director, International, Wholesale
and Roaming, said: “We have identified the
government and enterprise market as key
strategic customers and we are dedicated
to providing them with the latest and most
robust tools and solutions for them to go
about their businesses successfully.
“Zain has been a pioneering company since
inception and so we are proud to introduce
another first to the communications sector
in the MENA region through the availability
of Oracle FastConnect. We believe strongly
that innovation is driven by the delivery of
cutting-edge solutions, and Zain continues
to seek out partnerships with market-leading
technology providers to achieve this goal.”
The collaboration bolsters Zain’s own cloud-
based activities that allow customers to
connect their office/data centres to Oracle’s
Cloud over Zain’s international MPLS
network with dedicated bandwidth options
ranging from 10Mbps up to 10Gbps. Vinay Kumar, Vice President of Product
Management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,
said: “Customers require seamless
connectivity from their data centres and
networks to Oracle Cloud for their most
demanding workloads and applications.
Zain Cloud Connect is an innovative platform
that connects customers and different cloud “With the FastConnect service, customers
can provision the dedicated and private
WE BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT
INNOVATION IS DRIVEN BY THE DELIVERY
OF CUTTING-EDGE SOLUTIONS.
With cloud technology
making a significant
impact in Kuwait, we look
at the latest developments
in the market.
service providers (CSP) in a simple and cost-
effective way. connections they need today and easily
scale with their growing business demands.”
It may enable customers to build flexible
and scalable hybrid cloud-based solutions,
providing customers with the most
convenient way to connect to different CSPs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect
enables enterprise cloud connectivity to
Oracle Cloud from trusted enterprise data
centres. Connecting directly to the Oracle
Cloud impact
increasing with enhanced services
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