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WASNA Digital Solutions designs and delivers cloud and infrastructure for Saudi organisations: sovereign, hybrid and multi-cloud built around data residency, IT for new offices and sites, and virtualisation, edge computing and disaster recovery. We handle the work end to end, from design and procurement to build and ongoing operation.
Data residency is no longer a technical footnote for Saudi organisations; it is a compliance question. Where data may be hosted depends on how it is classified, your sector and whether personal data is involved, so the first cloud question is usually “where is this data allowed to sit, and under whose jurisdiction?” rather than “which provider is cheapest?”
Several bodies shape the answer: the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) registers cloud providers, the National Data Management Office (NDMO) sets data-localisation rules, and the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) governs personal data leaving the Kingdom. Our guide to data residency in Saudi Arabia covers this in detail.
Infrastructure pressure comes from other directions too: new offices and giga-project sites need networks on day one, ageing servers need replacing, and many recovery plans have never been tested.
Choosing a cloud strategy in Saudi Arabia means answering the compliance question before the technical one. WASNA Digital Solutions designs sovereign, hybrid or multi-cloud architectures that put data residency and regulatory alignment first, then build performance and scalability on top.
| Model | What it means | Often suited to |
|---|---|---|
| Sovereign cloud | Hosted in Saudi data centres by a provider registered for the relevant data classification | Government-linked, classified or regulated data |
| Hybrid cloud | On-premises systems and cloud managed as one estate | Legacy systems or data that must stay on site |
| Multi-cloud | Workloads across two or more providers | Reducing dependence on one vendor, cost control |
We work across the main Saudi-region cloud platforms, keeping some workloads on-premises or in-Kingdom while others run on public cloud, without compromising KSA data compliance. Migration runs in waves, each with testing and a rollback point, and spend is governed afterwards through rightsizing and named budget owners.
Opening a new office, branch or facility means building the IT foundation from zero, on a timeline the business cannot let slip. WASNA Digital Solutions handles greenfield IT builds from design to go-live, sized for anything from a small start-up office to a large multi-floor enterprise site.
We design around how the site will be used, then manage procurement, structured cabling, network build and device deployment, so the location works from day one. Cable routes, racks, power and cooling are designed before fit-out closes the ceilings, and telecom circuits are ordered early.
An unplanned outage costs more than downtime: it costs client trust and, in regulated sectors, compliance standing. WASNA Digital Solutions designs server and desktop virtualisation that gets more out of existing hardware, edge computing for sites that need low-latency processing close to sensor and IoT data, and disaster recovery plans that are tested, not filed away.
Recovery targets are set against your real risk tolerance, not a generic template:
| Term | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| RPO (recovery point objective) | The maximum data loss, in time, the business can accept | An RPO of 4 hours means backups or replication at least every 4 hours |
| RTO (recovery time objective) | The maximum time a system can be down | An RTO of 8 hours means the system runs again within 8 hours |
Examples are illustrative, not recommendations. Routine tasks such as backup checks, patch scheduling and capacity alerts can be handed to AI automation, so your team spends less time on manual checks. If the wider environment needs work, we can also improve the operations you already run.
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Sites, systems, users and contracts in scope, plus fixed dates such as an office opening.
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Current environment, data classification and residency rules, capacity and backups; each workload marked to move, stay or retire.
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Target architecture, recovery targets, bill of materials, budget and sequence, linked to your technology roadmap.
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Design, procurement, build and migration, coordinating cabling contractors, cloud providers and carriers.
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Documentation, a recovery test, cloud spend reviewed after the first billing cycles, and ongoing operation if you want it.
Deciding which workloads move to cloud and showing the choice fits data residency rules.
With ageing servers or backups nobody has restored recently.
That need IT working on day one.
Asked for recovery targets and hosting decisions that stand up to audit.
A sovereign cloud is hosted in Saudi data centres by a provider registered for the relevant data classification, so data stays under Saudi jurisdiction. It suits government-linked, classified and regulated data.
A backup is a copy of data. Disaster recovery is the tested process and standby infrastructure that brings whole systems back within the agreed RTO.
If production data must stay in the Kingdom, the replica normally carries the same restriction.
A list of sites, servers and main applications, any network diagrams, hosting and support contracts, and recent outages. Gaps are normal.
Tell us what you are planning and when it must be ready. A WASNA Digital Solutions consultant will come back with the questions that shape the scope.