Taeknizon picks HPE for UAE expansion

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced that Taeknizon, a private cloud service provider focused on Asia and the Middle East, has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to expand its operations in the UAE. 

The partnership with HPE will enable Taeknizon to meet growing demand from end customers and elastically scale up services in line with demand.

Headquartered in Singapore, service provider Taeknizon is seeking to expand their regional availability in the fast-growing Middle East market. With this expansion, Taeknizon’s mission is to become a specialised provider in a range of technology services, including multi-cloud solutions, data management, data security, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, cyber security, and colocation services across Middle East.

Taeknizon is expanding its operations with these new services with a reduced upfront capital investment and with additional scale-up capacity, which gives them the agility and flexibility to improve ROI by aligning infrastructure spend with end-customer demand. 

Taeknizon chose the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform as the foundation for their new services in the UAE, allowing them to monitor infrastructure usage with real-time consumption analytics and a reduced time to market for additional services, as the HPE GreenLake platform comes with 40 percent additional buffer capacity.

“We are pleased to be working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, giving our customers state-of-the-art solutions and a powerful platform to achieve their digital transformation aspirations through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform,” said Anithan Chandran, chief executive officer of Taeknizon Middle East Information Technology. “Partnerships like this offer a great value which will contribute to the realisation of UAE’s Digital Government Strategy 2025.”

“Today, 94 percent of all companies operating in the UAE are SMEs. We at HPE are committed to foster innovation and local entrepreneurship, and Taeknizon’s as a service model caters to the requirements of SMEs and aligns with our vision to empowering youth and the local start-up community,” said Ahmad AlKhallafi, managing director, UAE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 

“We are proud to extend the HPE GreenLake global partner ecosystem with Taeknizon and enable them to grow their business with full financial flexibility and predictability from the widest portfolio of on-premises cloud services that will allow them to meet customer demand. This partnership with further fuel local entrepreneurs with latest technologies to accelerate their business and contribute towards the growth of the UAE’s economy.”

Taeknizon is working on this HPE GreenLake engagement with Logicom Distribution, a key HPE Distribution Partner, and a leading regional distributor of technology solutions and services covering a wide area in Europe, Middle East and North Africa.