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Zain Teams Up with Microsoft to Drive Digital

Transformation in Kuwait’s SME Sector

Zain, the leading digital service provider better empower their employees, engage
in Kuwait, announced a partnership their customers, optimize operations
with Microsoft to accelerate digital and transform products and services.
transformation among its SME Eaman Al Roudhan, Zain Kuwait’s Chief
customers, through the provision of Executive Officer, commented: “Our
trusted cloud services. The partnership collaboration with Microsoft comes under
will allow existing Zain customers to the umbrella of Zain’s vision to expand
benefit from launch offers and special our strategic partnerships ecosystem
promotions while connecting Kuwait’s with global technology leaders around
entrepreneurial community to the the world to offer the latest and most
advanced tools and technology platforms advanced business solutions to the
needed to grow and thrive in the global Kuwaiti entrepreneurial community. It
digital economy. Small and medium- is of paramount importance to us that
sized enterprises (SMEs) will gain access we support homegrown talents in their
to solutions such as Office 365 and other endeavors to create jobs and make their
Business Intelligence tools in order mark on the regional and global stages.”

Zain Announces Expanded Cloud Offerings with Oracle FastConnect

Zain Group, the leading mobile telecom Kassab, Zain Group’s Managing Director, enterprise data centers. Connecting
innovator in eight markets across the International, Wholesale & Roaming directly to the Oracle Cloud through Oracle
Middle East and North Africa, and Gold level said, “We have identified the government FastConnect may enable a fast, private
member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), and enterprise market as key strategic connection to the industry’s broadest
has announced it will offer dedicated and customers and we are dedicated to and most integrated cloud platform, with
private access to Oracle Cloud through providing them with the latest and most a complete range of services across
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect, robust tools and solutions for them to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-
becoming one of the first mobile operator go about their businesses successfully.” as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-
in the region to receive this accreditation. Kassab continued, “Zain has been a as-a-Service (IaaS). Today, Oracle is
The elevation of Zain to becoming a gold pioneering company since inception and the only company delivering a complete
level member with Oracle means the telco so we are proud to introduce another and integrated set of cloud services and
can now connect customers directly with first to the communications sector in the building intelligence into every layer of the
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure including to MENA region through the availability of cloud. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,
applications such as compute, storage Oracle FastConnect. We believe strongly customers benefit from best-in-class
and content delivery, databases and that innovation is driven by the delivery of security, consistent high performance,
other services. The collaboration bolsters cutting-edge solutions, and Zain continues simple predictable pricing, and the tools
Zain’s own Cloud-based activities that to seek out partnerships with market- and expertise needed to bring enterprise
allow customers to connect their office/ leading technology providers to achieve workloads to cloud quickly and efficiently.
data centers to Oracle’s Cloud over this goal.” “Customers require seamless
Zain’s international MPLS network with connectivity from their data centers and
dedicated bandwidth options ranging from networks to Oracle Cloud for their most
10Mbps up to 10Gbps. Zain Cloud Connect demanding workloads and applications,”
is an innovative platform that connects said Vinay Kumar, vice president of product
customers and different cloud service management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
providers (CSP) in a simple and cost- “With the FastConnect service, customers
effective way. It may enable customers to can provision the dedicated and private
build flexible and scalable hybrid cloud- connections they need today and easily
based solutions, providing customers scale with their growing business
with the most convenient way to connect demands.” Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
to different CSPs. Commenting on the FastConnect enables enterprise cloud
Oracle FastConnect relationship, Henri connectivity to Oracle Cloud from trusted

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