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UAE MARKETSCAPE

digitization efforts in business transformation,
general. cost and risk. There have
“There is a constant been a lot of employees
and deep structural working from home,
change as customers often for the first time,
pivot away from and cloud tools are
archaic architectures coming handy for staff
that were designed productivity and to serve
with what have now customers.
become outdated “There is an
principles in terms increasing reliance on
of user access, data virtual/cloud-based
storage and working technologies to help
environments,” explains businesses scale and
Mohamed Abdallah, reduce their capital
Regional Director - expenditure on IT
Middle East, Turkey & infrastructure.Cloud-
Africa, SonicWall. “At delivered security k. S. PaRaG, Managing Director, FVC
SonicWall, we work services are on the rise
with a vast range too with the growing organizations better have initiatives underway
of organizations, usage of remote protect mobile to move applications out of
including government, office technology. workers and cloud the public cloud and on to
healthcare, retail Technologies like applications,” observes premises’ infrastructure,”
and universities. Secure Access Service Abdallah. cites Parag.
We haven’t seen a Edge (SASE) allows “UAE companies He however points out
single organization that UAE has one of the
that hasn’t re- lowest percentages of
engineered their hybrid cloud usage today
business models and and its projections of hybrid
networks to adapt to cloud growth 24 months
the ‘new normal’.” out lag EMEA and global
Cloud adoption in expectations. “The country
UAE plans to catch up with the
Cloud services rest of the world within
are on the rise four to six years, when
across the GCC they project hybrid cloud
as the pandemic penetration. Perhaps as an
has forced interim step to hybrid cloud,
organizations UAE companies currently
to make radical deploy far more workloads
decisions about and applications on private
cloud than any other
platform and do so more
than most other countries,”
mohameD aBDallah, believes Parag.
As mentioned, the
Regional Director - Middle East, Turkey & Africa, COVID-19 crisis has
SonicWall
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