Ooredoo, Qatar Airways sign strategic partnership

Ooredoo announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with the world's leading airline, Qatar Airways, to develop and co-design a state-of-the-art Hybrid Multi-Cloud environment.

The partnership was signed by CEO of Ooredoo Qatar, Sheikh Ali bin Jabor bin Mohammad Al Thani and Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Officer, Eng Badr Mohammed Al Meer.

Cloud setup will ensure that Qatar Airways has the flexibility to choose where its workloads reside depending on a host of factors, including but not limited to business demands, data security, data sovereignty and latency. By harnessing the expansive capabilities of the Public Cloud, Qatar Airways is poised to accelerate innovation and rapidly deploy new and exciting services to continually improve its customers' experience, while operating its high-performance workloads that require unmatched speeds, low latency, and iron-clad security in its dedicated Private Cloud environment. Ooredoo will also provide Qatar Airways with a network fabric that enables direct links between the airline's premises and both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud platforms.

This cutting-edge solution will bring together the prowess of world-renowned Hyperscalers, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, coupled with the resilience and security of Qatar Airways dedicated Private Cloud, powered by global technology providers including Nutanix, F5 and Cisco.

By harnessing the expansive capabilities of the Public Cloud, Qatar Airways is poised to accelerate innovation and rapidly deploy new and exciting services to continually improve its customers' experience, while operating its high-performance workloads that require unmatched speeds, low latency, and iron-clad security in its dedicated Private Cloud environment. Ooredoo will also provide Qatar Airways with a network fabric that enables direct links between the airline's premises and both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud platforms.