Mobily launched a new cloud computing offer for small and medium-sized business sector in accordance with the distinctive bundles and prices that meet the growing demand for this service and target all business customers in the Kingdom. Mobily launched this offer as part of the strategic alliance with Virtustream to give businesses and organizations the ability to deal with all kinds of applications. The service is divided into three categories: Silver category include 8 GB of RAM, 2.2 GHz with a storage capacity of 200 GB and cost SR2,699 per month; the Gold category which include 16 GB of RAM, 4.1 GHz with a storage capacity of 500 GB and cost SR5,149 per month while the Platinum category includes 32 GB of RAM, 8.2 GHz with a storage capacity of 1000 GB and cost SR9,999 per month. Mobily offers this service to its current customers via secure, reliable, and high-speed network connections to its Tier III and IV data-centers. A recent research in the KSA has shown that information security and loss of control over critical IT infrastructure assets are viewed as significant barriers to cloud adoption. Mobily Business Cloud Services have been designed with security, control and performance at their core and will provide significant advantages in these areas over and above a traditional infrastructure deployment. All data are stored within the Kingdom and managed under Saudi data sovereignty laws. — SG
