du joins Amazon Web Services Partner Network to Accelerate Access to the Cloud for Enterprises Across the UAE

Press release

Published September 26th, 2017 - 04:10 GMT

Fahad AlHassawi - du_Chief Commercial Officer

du, a telecommunications service provider in the United Arab Emirates, has joined the Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN). du’s enterprise customers gain rapid access to Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Cloud solutions and can streamline and accelerate how they connect to the Cloud.

“Joining AWS’s global partner programme means our customers can quickly deploy and connect Cloud services with consistent performance and new elasticity. We are giving our customers access to world-leading Cloud solutions and enabling them to scale their connectivity on-demand. In this way, we are making the promise of the Cloud a reality for customers on our network,” said Fahad AlHassawi, Chief Commercial Officer at du.

“We are driving Cloud adoption through the power and simplicity of our approach. We want enterprises to experience Cloud with no limits or barriers and benefit from new speed and agility of our network services. Our Cloud Access Exchange brings networking into the Cloud era and is a perfect match for the solutions offered by AWS. We are making it easy for enterprises to adopt Cloud,” added AlHassawi.

du’s Cloud Access Exchange is the first on-demand connectivity platform deployed in the Middle East. It enables enterprises to connect services supported with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) and Experience end-to-end. Cloud Access Exchange combines enterprise level connectivity with the scalability and flexibility of AWS.

Enterprises can establish a high-capacity, secure connection to the entire suite of AWS services. AWS offers compute power, storage, database services, content delivery, and other functionality to enable hybrid IT solutions, allowing enterprises to move more workloads to Cloud environments.

Background Information

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du)

Ever since we opened for business in 2006, we have worked hard to enhance and expand our bouquet of services in an industry that is at the heart of economic and social transformation. Bringing people and businesses together is what we do best, offering mobile and fixed telephony, broadband connectivity and IPTV services to people, homes and businesses all over the UAE. We also provide carrier services, a data hub, internet exchange facilities and satellite services for broadcasters.