Interconnecting digital businesses, services, solutions

Kamel Al-Tawil, Managing Director, Middle East, and North Africa, Equinix.
Kamel Al-Tawil, Managing Director, Middle East, and North Africa, Equinix.
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3 years ago

As enterprise demands for ecosystem access, infrastructure performance and network agility increase, customers are choosing Equinix Fabric as their de facto interconnection standard for connecting their digital infrastructure globally on Platform Equinix.

No longer just for cloud connectivity, Equinix Fabric establishes a globally connected footprint of services that enables digital leaders to transform their businesses as they connect to everything and everyone that matters to their business.

With Equinix Fabric integration built into both Network Edge and Equinix Metal over the trusted Equinix platform, digital leaders can bring together all the right places, partners, and possibilities to create the foundational infrastructure needed to succeed.

Equinix Fabric establishes a globally connected footprint of services that enables digital leaders to transform their businesses

The Equinix ecosystem includes thousands of businesses and network, cloud, and SaaS service providers, all interconnected by the reliable, high-speed, low-latency Equinix Fabric private network.

There is no one-cloud-fits-all strategy. Organisations thus need to be more flexible and adapt expeditiously to the new cloud age. This can only be achieved by having a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategy that will allow the delivery of flexibility, scalability, and security.

At Equinix, the role is to enable cloud service providers and cloud leaders to expand their platforms regionally and globally. Equinix Fabric allows companies to interconnect between various cloud providers so they can build a cloud strategy around hybrid cloud and multi-cloud access.

There is no one-cloud-fits-all strategy, organisations need to be more flexible and adapt expeditiously to the new cloud age

According to IDC, Equinix’s strength is the company’s comprehensive global footprint that has seen its brand become synonymous with neutral colocation data centres. Platform Equinix provides customers value that is extremely difficult and expensive for its rivals to emulate.

The IDC MarketScape report says companies should consider Equinix when they are a global enterprise or service provider that needs to remove the distance between users, cloud services, ecosystem partners and customers across their edge to meet the high-performance and low latency demands of digital. As companies transform their architecture to become digital ready, the IDC MarketScape report recommends Equinix for companies looking to optimise their network, scale across strategic locations, simplify hybrid multicloud access, distribute security controls to manage risk, or distribute data and analytics to optimise edge computing needs.

Equinix’s strength is the company’s global footprint that has seen its brand become synonymous with neutral colocation data centres

Equinix works with partners to align on solving business and technical challenges for end user customers. The benefits of the partner program help address real issues that advance the success of the end user customer. The combination of Equinix assets and partner competencies help deliver end to end solutions for customers including, value added services on networking, security, hybrid multicloud enablement, application performance, industry use case support and compliance challenges.

Equinix works with partners to align on solving business and technical challenges for end user customers


Goals and strengths As Managing Director, Kamel oversees and will continue to grow Equinix’s business portfolio in the region, defining the evolving strategy for the local markets. He will continue engaging and collaborating with the world’s leading clouds, networks, and service providers, supporting companies across the digital economy

Time off It is important to have hobbies and interest as it is beneficial for one’s mental health and wellbeing. Kamel enjoys walking with his family and his dog – as much as the Dubai weather pertain it, as well as kickboxing and martial art activities.

Kamel has 25 years’ experience in the IT industry in the Middle East region having worked with major corporations like NCR, EMC, and Oracle, where he served in multiple senior leadership positions—most recently as Vice President of Business Applications.

Kamel has led large-scale projects across business functions and companies, leveraging leading business and technology practices to deliver effective and efficient ways of working, whilst driving ongoing scale and growth.

As the Middle East and North Africa region continue to pivot towards digital transformation in its next phase of growth, Kamel aims to pursue the development of the business in-region with his strategic insights, continue building strong partnership with current and future customers, as well as support organisations with their digital transformation strategies and delivering real value to customers, staff, partners, shareholders, and other stakeholders.

Executive leaders should adopt a growing mindset to quickly navigate the storm and bring in the ship to haven.


The Equinix ecosystem includes thousands of businesses and network, cloud, and SaaS service providers, interconnected by Equinix Fabric private network.

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