Mobily, the official brand name of Etihad Etisalat and a major ICT service provider in Saudi Arabia, announced that it has achieved the Cisco Cloud & Managed Services Advanced Certification.

The certification recognizes Mobily as having the capabilities to sell and deliver cloud and managed services to help accelerate time to market and time to revenue. Additionally, the certification rewards partners for their expertise and investments for creating, selling and delivering cloud and managed services with financial incentives and go-to-market benefits in all countries of legal presence.

“Given our long standing strategic partnership with Cisco in the Kingdom, we are delighted to receive Cisco’s Cloud & Managed Services Advanced Certification. As a leader in providing integrated communications and IT services in the Kingdom, Mobily is continuously striving to keep abreast of technology developments in ICT to meet the needs of their customers, especially in light of a changing world in terms of the role of ICT and its uses,” commented Ismail Al-Ghamdi, acting chief business officer, Mobily.

“Cisco managed service provider and Cisco powered cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) certification is one of the fundamental cornerstones that is showing how Mobily and Cisco are fast tracking the execution of our joint sales and marketing agreement, signed in January 2014, to offer customers a differentiated set of cloud and ICT services and solutions,” said Taher Aldabbagh, executive GM alliances, Mobily.

Zayan Sadek, regional sales manager, Cisco Saudi Arabia, said: “We value the commitment and expertise that Mobily demonstrated and look forward to continuing to build on our successful strategic partnership. We highly commend Mobily for achieving our Cloud and Managed Services Advanced Certification.”

Ali Amer, client executive, Sales for Cisco Middle East, said: “This certification reflects Cisco’s commitment to partner with global leaders to provide customers with the technologies and services they need.”