As LEAP 2023 wraps up, Mobily unveils a new series of agreements and partnerships across a
wide range of technology fields, including cloud centers, digitalization, and cybersecurity as
well as presenting their Digital Hub initiative.
Thousands of delegates, experts and industry leaders attended the last day of the Kingdom’s
mega-event, which envisioned the future of technology and provided a platform for new
products and solutions. Highlights on day four for Mobily are announcements of new
Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with companies such as Tata Consulting Services,
Cisco AWS and many more.
Digital Hub initiative
During the conference, Mobily presented its Digital Hub initiative, which enhances the
Kingdom’s position as the first regional hub. The center also includes an integrated system of
submarine cables that connect the world from east to west, in addition to Terrestrial networks,
data centers, landing stations, and the JED1 IX International Neutral Internet Exchange in
partnership with Equinix.
Senior Vice President, Wholesale and Carrier Services, M. Thamer Al-Fadda said: “During the
past few days in LEAP, we have signed a number of agreements with our partners, through
which we look forward to achieving our goal of enhancing digital infrastructure and improving
customer experience. In carriers and operators’ sector, we have invested to provide a
diversified portfolio of services and solutions for expanding the local and international
infrastructure. In addition to building new partnerships to achieve sustainable growth in the
communications and information technology sector.”
Cisco
Mobily inked a new 3 year-long collaboration with Cisco Systems Company to leverage the
latter’s managed Security Services to cement the company’s infrastructure and offering. The
agreement aims to maximize Mobily’s cybersecurity capabilities through enhanced monitoring
and incident response, in addition to deploying cybersecurity content and platform
management and threat Hunting solutions as well as identity and access management and
Cybersecurity Infrastructure Management, which will all further accelerate the company’s
operation excellence.
Commenting on the agreement, SVP, Mobily Cybersecurity department, Bader Alasoos said:
“Mobily Cybersecurity department with Cisco Systems team have jointly worked on developing
state of the art SOC services model, leveraging latest in technology and internally developed
security content and best practices. The Security Operations delivery model caters for Mobily
infrastructure growth and address challenges of Cybersecurity in our strategic IT, cloud and
Telecom ventures aligned with Kingdoms 2030 vision.”
General Manager of Cisco Systems, Mohammed Tantawi said: “The next 3 years of Mobily and
Cisco partnership are filled with exciting new initiatives that will transform Mobily’s Security
and detection systems, developing new capabilities that will help early detection and
comprehensive response to security incidents, enhance user experience for corporate and
Mobily customers when interacting with digital platforms.”
TCS
Tata Consulting Services (TCS) and Mobily signed an agreement, which will see both TCS and
Mobily work hand-in-hand to develop a remote center in Jizan. The development of the center
will also open up new job opportunities for local Saudi talent and benefit from low attrition, low
running costs and a long running relationship with the region.
The development of the center will see Mobily becoming an anchor customer with TCS for a
fixed committed business. The investment will deploy a Six Sigma process consultant that will
further optimize and automate the business process.
Amazon Web Services
Mobily has signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to become an Advanced
Partner in Saudi Arabia. As part of the agreement, Mobily will establish an AWS Cloud Center of
Excellence staffed with AWS-trained and certified Mobily personnel. The collaboration is in line
with Mobily’s aim to accelerate the digitization of the Saudi enterprise market. It includes
launching a portfolio of cloud services, such as Edge Cloud solutions, Private 5G, and industry
4.0 solutions, as well as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine
Learning (ML) services.
Chief Strategy and Digitalization Office of Mobily, Omar Al-Rasheed said: “Mobily’s partnerships
with hyperscalers are essential to move up the ICT value chain and accelerate the journey of
enterprise digital transformation. We are excited to collaborate with AWS, which has a wide
range of edge services for enterprises, the largest developer community, and the biggest
market share in IaaS. Building on both parties’ joint capabilities would indeed unlock new
opportunities and possibilities.”
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