IBM partnered with the leaders in IT Infrastructure Management, Technical Support Services, IT Consultancy and Technology Resource Outsourcing company, United Business Group (UBG) to offer a flexible hybrid cloud platform based on OpenStack to deliver customized cloud services to customers in Kuwait.
Businesses in Kuwait will now be able to choose to have their data located in country and given the option to have the data reside either on premise or off premise. 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.
“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.”
“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.”
