Lightstorm is the digital network infrastructure arm of US private equity company I Squared Capital and specializes in building infrastructure for hyperscale networking in South Asia and Southeast Asia.
The company has confirmed it will make multi-million-dollar investments in the region to expand its presence in the area.
The partnerships with Kalaam and GDH will see Lightstorm provide state-of-the-art digital infrastructure to enterprises in the Middle East.
Bahrain-based Kalaam provides telecom services and solutions, while GDH of the UAE provides data center solutions.
Lightstorm will provide its partners with Polarin, which it describes as a self-serve Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform which is fully aligned with the cloud.
Lightstorm provides fiber networks through its SmartNet Network, and has built this network up to cover 35,000km of fiber connecting more than 50 data centers across five major economic hubs in India, while connecting more than 40 data centers through SmartNet Indonesia last year, across the JABO region.