UB Group launches first IBM Hybrid Cloud Computing Solution in Kuwait
IIK Staff Reporter; Photo: Anwar Sadath Thalasserry
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
United Business Group (UBG) - a leader in IT Infrastructure Management, Technical Support Services, IT Consultancy and Technology Resource Outsourcing in Kuwait launched the first IBM OpenStack Hybrid Cloud Computing Solution in Kuwait running on IBM Open Power8 and Intel X86 server Technology. With the new partnership with IBM, UBG will offer a flexible hybrid cloud platform based on OpenStack to deliver customized cloud services to customers in Kuwait, officials said during the launch event held at JW Marriott Hotel in Kuwait city. The event was attended by their clients, strategic partners, prominent business personalities, and influential people from Technology Industry in Kuwait.
This new initiative is planned to bring the Kuwaiti corporate world into the new concept of a Technical Solution based on Cloud Services. This revolutionary technique is the most cutting edge solution aimed at using the Power of the Cloud Technology to offer, secure, cost effective and extremely reliable IT services to the entire range of Corporate IT users in Kuwait and the MEA region, officials said.
"By offering our customers access to a hybrid cloud platform based on open standards, we will be able to help break down the barriers between clouds and on premise IT systems, providing clients with control, visibility and security as they use both public and private clouds,” said Marawan Megawer, Vice President Global Business Partners, IBM Middle East & Africa. "Data location across an ever growing number of clouds is an increasing concern for customers, and we are unveiling new developer services to make this easier to manage.”
The market shift toward cloud-enabled business models is accelerating and buying behavior is largely focused in “as-a-service” options, which is driving a huge demand for in-country managed services and the hybrid cloud. To address this market change, UBG employed IBM Cloud to offer customers in Kuwait the option for subscription model cloud-based offerings to save costs and increase operational agility, choice, and flexibility. The new model will also grant customers the transparency to use all data and apps across multiple platforms, the control and governance to manage heavy workloads, and a multi-layered approach to ensure security across every interaction point.
“We are leveraging IBM Cloud, analytics, mobile and security offerings in order to create high-value, competitively differentiated services,” said Muraleedharan Nanoo, Managing Director UBG. “Our goal is to improve development productivity and reliability to better serve our customers”, he added.
UBG will also offer to its clients in Kuwait Bluemix, IBM’s Digital Innovation Platform, to speed up app development, cutting deployment time from months to minutes. The new model also allows businesses to select from a range of hardware configuration options based on open standards and deploy services from IBM’s SoftLayer global data centres based on the needs of the workload. Now businesses will be able to focus more on building functional applications and services and less on the backend processes, such as the infrastructure and cloud management systems.
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