eHosting DataFort (eHDF), the region's leading Managed Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure services provider, was awarded the prestigious Intelligent Managed Services Provider of the Year at the Intelligent CIO Technology Excellence Awards 2016. The award ceremony took place recently at the Westin Hotel in Al Habtoor City, Dubai and honored companies and end-user individuals that have shown outstanding examples of IT implementation excellence and pioneering spirit in their chosen field of specialization in the past year. Yasser Zeineldin, CEO, eHosting DataFort, said: "We are humbled by the prestigious industry recognition accorded to our offerings and capabilities as the leading managed services provider in the region. Such achievements make us constantly raise the bar for ourselves to be creative and innovative in providing true value to our customers, who are at the center of everything that we do and entrust us to be at the forefront of technology and service delivery. To keep up with increased customer demand and expectations, we have invested heavily in our infrastructure and services in 2015. We also have an aggressive investment plan for 2016 and beyond to avail to our customers the latest innovations and its associated benefits. We are committed to helping enterprises in the region transform their IT infrastructure into competitive assets and focus on their core business." eHDF has received accolades for its managed services, cloud computing and data center offerings over the last 9 years in a row, and continues its efforts to focus on customer needs, service offerings and innovation. The key reasons that make eHDF stand out in the managed services marketplace is the company's ability to provide strategic, financial and operational benefits to its customers and act as an extension to their in-house IT department. eHDF has a team of domain and technical experts who are highly knowledgeable, committed, experienced and completely focused on keeping customers' critical applications and infrastructure working optimally without any downtime. eHDF is also the first company in the Middle East to achieve the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (CSA STAR) certification that audits the security capability levels of a company. Achieving the Gold rating is the highest rating that can be awarded to any cloud services provider and the accolade has positive implications on eHDF's Managed Services portfolio. eHDF is also certified to ISO 9001/ 20000/ 22301/ 27001 for the last seven years. Established in 2001, eHosting DataFort (eHDF) is amongst the 1st providers of Managed Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services in the Gulf region. It owns and operates multiple Tier 3 data centers, delivering managed services through reliable infrastructure, 24/7 support and guaranteed uptime, and is the only services provider in the ME to offer credit based Service Level Agreements.
