Zain Kuwait, ZainTech, and Microsoft collaborate to launch the National Cloud Initiative, empowering organizations in the country

Zain Kuwait, ZainTech, and Microsoft collaborate to launch the National Cloud Initiative, empowering organizations in the country

Kuwait: Zain Kuwait, the leading digital service provider in the country, and ZainTech, the one-stop digital and ICT solutions powerhouse of Zain Group, announce a joint collaboration initiative with Microsoft to introduce a national cloud offering for public and private sectors in the country.

All three entities have impressive cloud offerings regionally, and this latest alliance will see the development of a cloud environment combining Microsoft’s extensive portfolio, Zain’s private cloud infrastructure, and ZainTech’s expertise, enabling data and applications to be shared between them. The solution will give businesses in Kuwait greater deployment options and the ability to easily scale computing resources while still maintaining interoperability with their on-premises systems. The cloud offering is being introduced as a solution for Kuwaiti clients, as full adoption of the hyperscale cloud is not currently possible due to data residency and sovereignty regulations.

With a clear data classification strategy in place, the national cloud offering in Kuwait can help organizations modernize their data centers by bringing cloud techniques, such as software-defined data centers, self-service, and elasticity based on virtualization, into their data centers. Using a single centralized perspective, the national cloud offering can enable organizations to efficiently manage compliance with proliferating standards and infrastructure that