Saudi Telecom, represented by STC Business — Saudi Arabia's leading ICT services provider, signed an agreement with EMC Corporation on the sidelines of GITEX 2015 participation. According to the terms of the agreement, STC Business and EMC Corporation will address the needs of customers in the Kingdom by cooperating in a number of vital cloud computing fields, among them data storage, information management, information security, data Protection and availability, virtualization, big data and analytics. Tarig M. Enaya, senior vice president of STC Enterprise: "Our MoU with EMC Corporation means we can offer high quality elastic storage solutions in a reliable manner that allows our enterprise customers to reach high performance rates and achieve results that are measurable." Mohammed Amin, senior vice president and regional manager, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East at EMC, said, "This new cooperation with STC brings us closer to our global customer base, who have operations here in Saudi Arabia, and opens door for new customers in the Kingdom to increase their business operation effectiveness and efficiency by applying advanced EMC cloud solutions." EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS), through its innovative products and services, accelerating the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. STC Business delivers on the needs and requirements of customers from the government, large corporation, small to medium enterprise, and small office and home office segments. Basing its operations on best practices and partnerships with the biggest global information communication and technology (ICT) industry players for a differentiated customer experience, STC Business is the first choice for customers when it comes to robust, secure and efficient solutions and services provided in an optimized, redundant and connected manner. As a leader in the ICT industry, STC Business provides IP-VPN, managed services, cloud computing and hosting solutions and services utilizing unmatchable infrastructure, operated out of the largest data centers located in major cities, and interconnected all over the Kingdom through a fiber optic network. EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
