Dubai, UAE, 20 December 2013
du, the region's fastest-growing telecommunications company, and datamena, the UAE-based carrier-neutral transit and content hub, received Best Enterprise Solutions and Best Cloud Provider accolades at the recently-held Telecom Review Industry Awards.
Hany Ali, Executive Vice President - Enterprise, du, received the Best Enterprise Solutions Award. du won for its vision of a connected, secure and mobile enterprise, realized through its comprehensive portfolio of products and services, which range from connectivity to the cloud. du Business Cloud offers flexible packages for Virtual Servers, Virtual Storage and Data Backup with bundled bandwidth, However customers can subscribe to more advanced services such as PrivateCloud, Community Cloud, Virtual Desktop and more.
"Our Enterprise services have grown in leaps and bounds in the last year, with increasingly more offerings to better exceed the ever-changing needs of the UAE's businesses," said Ali. "Being named as the provider of the Best Enterprise Solutions is an exciting new accolade to add to the awards that our Enterprise services have won in recent months."
The Best Cloud Provider Award was received by Mahesh Jaishankar, Vice President, datamena. datamena won for showing excellence in providing carrier-neutral transit and a content hub, providing world-class data centre facilities, high-speed connectivity and support services to data-dependent businesses in the region and beyond. datamena provides cloud providers with a platform to reach out to their key markets though its connectivity, exchange and hosting services.
"Since its launch last year, datamena has made a significant impact on the way in which companies in the region connect within MENA and beyond," said Jaishankar. "We enable cloud and work closely with cloud services providers to provide them with the infrastructure to deliver reliable, secure cloud services. We are proud to provide this and more to our customers."
The Telecom Review Industry Awards honour companies based on their innovative business practices, business excellence and overall business success.
To find out more about du's managed services portfolio, visit www.du.ae/Business. To know more about datamena, please visit www.datamena.com.
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About du
We opened for business in 2006. We offer mobile and fixed telephony, broadband connectivity and IPTV services to individuals, homes and businesses. We also provide carrier services for businesses and satellite up/downlink services for TV broadcasters.
As a rapidly-growing enterprise, we have a team of experts working to enhance and expand our bouquet of service offerings. Our people come from over 60 countries - we mirror the rich cultural diversity of our nation, while being able to serve our customers in a variety of languages.
Over 50% of our senior management team and customer-facing employees are UAE nationals, and we remain committed to providing fulfilling opportunities for quality talent in a cosmopolitan working environment.
By the end of Q3 2013, more than 6.8 million people and over 50,000 businesses have chosen to use our services. In a survey conducted by ARC Chart, we were named the Best Mobile Broadband Network 2012 in the Middle East and Africa region. We also ranked first in MENA's Standard & Poor/Hawkamah Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Index in 2011.
du is 39.5 percent owned by Emirates Investment Authority, 20.081 percent by Mubadala Development Company PJSC, 19.5 percent by Emirates Communications and Technology LLC and the remaining stake by public shareholders. du is listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and trades under the name 'du'.
For further information, please contact:
Saugat Chatterjee
Public Relations Manager
Brand & Communications
du
Mobile: +971 55 9367045
Email: saugat.chatterjee@du.ae
LeoComm PR
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