Dubai, UAE,  4 March 2014: datamena, the carrier neutral data centre and connectivity platform based in the UAE and servicing the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, and China Communications Services (Hong Kong) International Limited (China Comservice International), a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Communications Services Corporation Limited (China Comservice) – a leading service provider in the People’s republic of China (PRC) providing integrated support services in the information sector, announced their partnership during Capacity Middle East, the annual flagship event for the Middle Eastern and international carrier communities. datamena is participating in Capacity Middle East for the second consecutive year and supporting the event this year as a diamond sponsor.

The partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 4 March 2014 between Hany Ali, Executive Vice President – Enterprise marketing, du, and Madam Yang, CEO, China Comservice International, on the sidelines of the event.

Through the partnership, datamena will enable China Comservice to expand its service portfolio into the Middle East, through its data centre presence. This will empower China Comservice to provide infrastructure and management services for customers seeking to deploy into datamena. 

“We are excited to join datamena. Expanding into the MEA region through datamena will significantly increase our footprint and depth of capabilities, and provide us with an even stronger competitive edge,” said Madam Yang. “datamena is gaining rapid prominence internationally and being a part of such a facility as datamena presents us with the possibility to empower companies in the region with our leading solutions. We are very confident about the potential of this new partnership.”  

“Adding such a big player as China Comservice to the datamena ecosystem will provide myriad opportunities to our customers,” said Mahesh Jaishankar – Vice President, datamena. “China Comservice will improve our customer experience by bringing world-class managed services expertise into datamena. We are very pleased to welcome them on board.”

China Comservice joins the rapidly growing ecosystem of more than 40 customers interconnecting through datamena’s neutral platform in the UAE, provided in alliance with Equinix.

For more information on China Comservice International, please visit www.chinaccsi.com.