eHosting DataFort seeks to strengthen regional presence through participation in Gitex Saudi Arabia 2009

The 8th International Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex) Saudi Arabia will be held from 19-23 April at the Riyadh International Exhibition Center. The annual computers and electronics trade show highlighting advances in IT and communications technology is set to bring together over 400 firms from 15 countries.

Throughout the five-day event, a two-member senior management team from eHDF (Stand B329) led by Mazen Abdelghany, Director of Commercial Operations, and Sachin Bhardwaj, Marketing Manager, will interact with trade visitors and industry professionals and demonstrate the company's top of the range technologies and services offerings.

Abdelghany said, "Our presence at Gitex Saudi Arabia reaffirms our commitment to the GCC region, especially Saudi Arabia, through joint ventures and partnerships. We are confident we can add value to key clients with the plethora of our services, which cover an entire gamut of IT outsourcing services, including managed services, content management, business continuity, security consulting, application development and data centre design."

"Our specialized service uniquely positions us to help organizations eliminate the heavy initial costs involved in setting up cost-intensive IT infrastructure. This service, which has proven to be extremely popular with our existing clients, allows companies to outsource their IT requirements from us on a service-on-demand basis, thereby transferring a key part of their capital expenditure to operational expenditure," he added.

The Saudi Arabian market remains one of the region's most attractive with its IT industry continuing to grow exponentially. It is estimated that the Kingdom accounts for 40% of the region's $5bn computer and IT applications market.

Currently, eHDF has more than 575 customers in various vertical segments including Emirates airlines, Dubai Bank, Dubai Financial Market, Arab Bank, the Dubai Ruler's Court, Government of Sudan, Qatar Foundation, Kuwait National Petroleum Company, Dubai Aluminium Company (DUBAL), Al Futtaim, du, Dubai E-Government, Khaleej Times, MBC, Deutsche Börse Systems, Aramex, British Telecom, Dubai TV, Panasonic and Arcelor-Mittal.

With world-class data centres, state-of-the-art infrastructure and round-the-clock managed operations, eHDF has a wide network of technology and channel partners based in the GCC and MENA regions, Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Boasting ITIL and ISO9001: 2008, ISO 20000:2005 and ISO 27001:2005 certifications, eHDF successfully delivers operations through highly reliable and scalable infrastructures based on international standards and best practices.