BIOS Middle East expands its cloud footprint to Oman

BIOS Middle East announced that it has established a new cloud footprint in Muscat, Oman, to serve customers in the Sultanate. The cloud footprint will also provide customers in surrounding GCC countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar with the ability to do out of the country in region disaster recovery as a service.

The cloud zone enables companies in Oman to keep all their data within the borders of the country, meeting compliance requirements for many business sectors, while also accelerating their readiness towards meeting the goals of Oman Vision 2040.

BIOS Middle East will operate datacentres in the key commercial centre of Muscat will continue to service organisations all over the country as they look to streamline operations and launch new digital services.

Following the successful model from the UAE and Saudi Arabia, BIOS aims to help its customers in Oman and the wider region to eliminate their IT capital costs and dramatically reduce their operational costs while achieving a better service level.

The new cloud footprint in Muscat complements existing cloud footprints already available in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Jeddah.

The cloud and managed IT services provider established cloud data centres in Riyadh and Jeddah earlier this year.

Read: UAE-based BIOS Middle East expands to Saudi Arabia with two cloud data centres

The cloud data centres 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.

Last year, the company stated that it has been approved to offer VMware SD-WAN to customers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Read: Dubai-based BIOS Middle East adds VMware SD-WAN to managed services portfolio

VMware SD-WAN enables access from branch or work-from-anywhere locations to cloud services, private data centres and SaaS-based enterprise applications. Its automated deployment simplifies branch wide-area networking while the utilisation of private, broadband internet, and LTE links improves performance for distributed enterprises.

BIOS Middle East is a Gartner recognised vendor, and brings its ISO-certified cloud to organisations across Oman, offering regional expertise in Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS).