Mobily, a major provider of innovative communications services, has increased its data center infrastructure capacity after launching a new data center in the city of Buraidah; this massively enhances the company’s telecommunication and information space.

The opening of the data center was attended by Essam Al-Jubair, senior executive officer (SEO) facilities and administration; Mohammed Al-Badrani, acting SEO network engineering; and Mohammed Alshammari, acting EGM infrastructure services and business solutions operations, and Mobily’s other senior management team to ensure that the operation was progressing smoothly according to the planned timetable.

The data center was designed according to the classification standards of Tier II from the specialized American (UPTIME) institute to improve continuous operations without any delay by 99.98 percent.

The launch is aligned to Mobily’s expansion plan and efforts to diversify its technical solutions. The data center contains the most modern technology and infrastructure to maintain nonstop operations, as well as maintaining the best safety systems and standards in all its buildings.

Data centers are important in supporting both the public and private sectors, and provide many services such as computing systems and managed services, in addition to disaster prevention solutions and information security.

This comes as part of the company’s plans for launching number of data centers in different areas across the Kingdom such as the recent opening of Al-Dhahran data center. These data centers enable Mobily to ensure customer satisfaction and diversify its products and services portfolio.