Mobily launched its Managed Hosted Messaging and Collaboration services, a Microsoft-powered hosted environment that provides messaging, communication and collaboration solutions for businesses.

Through this highly secure and redundant hosted environment, Mobily will be offering services such as Messaging Solutions, Hosted Exchange, Office Communication Server, Windows SharePoint, Web Data Hosting Services, DNS, Web Site Builder and many others. Mobily also provides up-to-the-minute antispam and antivirus protection to ensure uninterrupted business operation. The above services are bundled in carefully tailored and designed packages that suit different business needs and ensures to minimize the Total Cost of Ownership of such solutions.

“Working with Microsoft guarantees the unrivaled value of the business services that we offer, and which will streamline work and save tremendous costs for businesses. The service should be viewed as another integrative suite from Mobily, where Mobily’s advantage of bringing a one-stop-shop for ALL of the telecom needs,” said engineer Abdulaziz Altamami, Mobily’s Chief Operations Officer.

“Mobily’s infrastructure is more than capable of hosting and running data and network servers in a safe and stable environment, on top of its incumbent broadband and corporate VPN services,” added Altamami. “Instead of bearing out the huge initial outlay for their own hardware, with all of the logistic nightmares and having to hire people to run it – not to mention keeping it running, now we offer a one-stop shop for every quality service, but without having to worry about equipment, hardware, wiring or manpower, with minimal, if not negligible, total cost of ownership.”

Bayanat Al-Oula, Mobily’s data division, launched its Data Center in August 2009. The center hosts data and network servers and broadband and VPN services for businesses at a facility in northern Riyadh.