BIOS Middle East Expands Its Cloud Services to Saudi Arabia
BIOS Middle East making good on its aspirations to become the regional leader in Cloud Managed Service by establishing cloud footprints in Riyadh and Jeddah.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 19, 2021: BIOS Middle East, a leading cloud provider and managed IT services in the Middle East, announces it has established two new cloud footprints in Riyadh and Jeddah to serve customers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These were built out in late 2020 using the VMware cloud stack, which has been the core of BIOS’ UAE offerings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi since 2013. Along with the new zones’ launch, BIOS has also confirmed that the first set of customers has already been onboarded, providing it with strong reference accounts in financial services and healthcare sectors.
With the move, the UAE’s #1 provider of cloud computing services now supports extended digital transformation services in the Kingdom. The two new cloud zones allow companies in KSA to keep all their data within the country’s borders, which meets many business sectors’ compliance requirements. Customers can now move their production workloads to the managed secure cloud platform with ease or take advantage of Gartner Magic Quadrant-rated disaster recovery services to another city. Following the successful model from the UAE, BIOS aims to help its customers in the Kingdom to eliminate their IT capital costs and dramatically reduce their operational costs while achieving a better service level.
As a prominent Gartner recognized vendor, BIOS Middle East brings its ISO-certified cloud to organizations across Saudi Arabia, offering regional expertise in Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS). BIOS Middle East will operate datacentres in the key commercial centers of Riyadh and Jeddah. Still, it will continue to service organizations all over the country as they look to streamline operations and launch new digital services.
“Cloud services are essential to unlocking the benefits of digital transformation, which has been identified as a major strategic plank for Saudi Arabian organizations in line with Saudi Vision 2030. With this move, BIOS Middle East leverages its proven, award-winning expertise in public, private, and managed clouds to support Saudi organizations in their quest to meet those goals and stay responsive to customer needs,” said Dominic Docherty, managing director, BIOS Middle East. We started getting so many requests for cloud services in KSA, both from our UAE customers wanting to expand and from inbound leads, that it became an obvious step for us to take. So far, the response has been beyond our expectations, and we are super excited to invest and grow more in the Kingdom.”
According to Aramco, as a leading player in the ICT sector in the Middle East and North Africa region, Saudi Arabia’s cloud services market is estimated at $10 billion. In 2019, the Kingdom launched its Cloud First Policy to encourage public sector migration from traditional IT solutions to cloud-based models. The policy aims to help Saudi organizations improve efficiency, enhance agility and reliability, strengthen cybersecurity, and promote innovation to achieve the Saudi Vision 2030 program’s goals.
BIOS Middle East works with several leading global vendors and is focused on providing a range of public and private clouds and managed services in the region. The company has customers from several industries, including financial services, healthcare, insurance, oil and gas, retail, and more. Founded in 2002, BIOS Middle East serves hundreds of leading organizations worldwide to enhance their IT operations and reduce costs.
