stc signed partnership agreements with a number of specialized companies in support of establishing modern, new generation of cloud-based data centers. As part of the third phase of the data centers project, stc recently launched a new data center in Jeddah. These steps aim to expand the stc's capabilities and capacities and accelerate the implementation of the Kingdom's digital transformation goals through a flexible and global-level data distribution process.
Through these agreements, stc also seeks to accelerate the stages of advanced digital transformation, consolidate the Kingdom’s role as a regional digital hub for cloud computing that attracts innovation-based technology investments in the region by providing cloud services to public and private entities and contributing to storing and processing their data. Thus, the cyber risks as well as the operating expenses of these entities would be reduced in line with cyber security standards and controls provided by data centers in the Kingdom.
These agreements are an extension of the third phase of the stc's newly launched data centers project, the largest in the region. This phase would provide seamless data distribution on a global level in compliance with the objectives of the Saudi Green Initiative for Environmental Sustainability. The most prominent of these agreements are the ones concluded with SBM, with the aim to increasing the efficiency of data centers using flexible and advanced technologies; Huawei, with the aim to supporting data centers by ensuring a flexible flow of data and digital information traffic between different technical facilities to maintain business continuity; and MMR, which the aim to enhancing the infrastructure of modern data centers.
In addition, stc inaugurated the new data center in Jeddah under the third phase of the data centers project. It is the first neutral data center in the region and its capacity amounts to 1.2 megawatts and 150 server racks. It combines many digital services that ensure fast and secure access to the high capacity local and international network that connects various IGW and MPLS networks. The center comes as a part of stc’s strategic plans for data centers to enable the company to be a gateway to the digital infrastructure of the Middle East and to achieve the digital transformation of the Kingdom by providing important digital availability areas that secure an integrated set of secure services and service management at the global level, in addition to improving its digital technologies and communication services across the major cities in the Kingdom, including Jeddah.
Source: stc Press Release