Whale Cloud, a subsidiary company of Alibaba Group, has signed a three-year contract with Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA), the third mobile network operator in the region, to help the operator launch a public cloud service in Saudi Arabia.
Whale Cloud will help Zain KSA to deploy, operate and maintain a public cloud platform and further assists the operator with vertical solutions to serve the enterprise markets.
Whale Cloud will deliver a flexible and scalable public cloud platform by leveraging Alibaba’s Apsara Stack, a full-stack cloud solution, which offers flexible scalability, guarantees secure protection of enterprise data, and facilitates operation and maintenance management (O&M). Moreover, it provides AI platforms and supports elastic GPU computing services, making Apsara Stack an ideal platform to develop smart applications. This will allow Zain KSA to seize new business opportunities in the 5G and IoT era.
With this public cloud infrastructure, Zain KSA plans to offer its customers vertical solutions such as IoT under the brand “Zain Cloud”. Whale Cloud will provide technical support to Zain’s customers.
Bao Zhongjun, CEO of Whale Cloud
We believe this partnership will strengthen Zain’s capabilities in cloud-based services and help Zain to provide differentiated services to its customers. Whale Cloud will work closely with Zain to ensure Zain’s public cloud services stand out among its competitors.
Saad Alsadhan, CBO of Zain KSA
We chose Whale Cloud to be our cloud service partner because we trust Whale Cloud’s expertise in telco IT and their experience in cloud-based services.
