{"id":27041,"date":"2020-02-04T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=27041"},"modified":"2020-02-04T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:27:30","slug":"etisalat-joins-forces-with-microsoft-to-envision-telecoms-provider-platform-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/etisalat-joins-forces-with-microsoft-to-envision-telecoms-provider-platform-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Etisalat Joins Forces With Microsoft To Envision &#8216;Telecoms Provider Platform Of The Future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a multi-year partnership, Etisalat has announced that it has teamed up with Microsoft to drive public cloud first strategy through a digital transformation program that enables Etisalat to build a digital platform infused with automation and AI providing a simplified network architecture and operations empowering Etisalat subscribers and improving customer experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Etisalat and Microsoft embark together on a bold new digital transformation journey that will allow us to leverage our industry expertise to deliver the next generation of networks,\u201d said Saeed Al Zarouni, Senior Vice President, Mobile Networks, Etisalat. \u201cKeeping in line with our overall strategy and vision of \u2018Driving the Digital Future to Empower Societies, we at Etisalat are committed to nothing less than the total transformation of the consumer and business customer experiences. Etisalat today has transitioned to a digital service provider \u2013 the provider of choice for digital services among enterprises and SMB customers, supporting them to monetise services to generate new revenue streams. Together with Microsoft, we are building the communications network of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Azure will power the infusion of AI capabilities into Etisalat\u2019s network by expanding Microsoft Azure solutions into the network, and for Etisalat\u2019s new technologies like Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Network Edge Computing (NEC).\u00a0 These will significantly speed up computing at the edge, which combined with 5G, will enable new types of applications related to smart cities, autonomous systems, gaming, AR\/VR, IoT, and vision computing solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur partnership with Etisalat is further demonstration of the trust regional enterprises place in the intelligent Microsoft Cloud,\u201d said Sayed Hashish, General Manager, Microsoft UAE. \u201cOur mission is to empower every individual and organisation on the planet to achieve more. Etisalat\u2019s digital transformation journey centres on a public-cloud-first strategy including network workloads. Its partnership with Microsoft is designed to merge its telecommunications capabilities with our intelligent cloud solutions, including artificial intelligence and self-healing networks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a multi-year partnership, Etisalat has announced that it has teamed up with Microsoft to drive public cloud first strategy through a digital transformation program that enables Etisalat to build a digital platform infused with automation and AI providing a simplified network architecture and operations empowering Etisalat subscribers and improving customer experience. \u201cToday, Etisalat and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27043,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041\/revisions\/27043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}