Zain Saudi partners with Alibaba subsidiary to launch public cloud services

Mobile Telecommunications Company Saudi Arabia (Zain Saudi) has signed a three-year contract with Whale Cloud, a subsidiary company of Alibaba Group to launch a public cloud service in Saudi Arabia, a statement said.

“Whale Cloud will help Zain Saudi to deploy, operate and maintain a public cloud platform and further assists the operator with vertical solutions to serve the enterprise markets,” the statement added.

“Zain will launch public cloud services in Saudi Arabia. We are enriching our service offerings and expanding our market landscape. 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,” said Saad Alsadhan, CBO of Zain Saudi.