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uAe MArKeTSCAPe Cloud vs on premises: uAe enterprises

experience the best of both the worlds

contemplating to set up On premise
or partnering with
ccording to IDC,
their datacenter regions
existing datacenter
the regional
Datacenters vs Cloud
Ademand for
year Microsoft launched
datacenters is growing
R. Waingankar, Vice
Together with the
rapidly, with investment in the country. While last services providers,” says Sachin
President & Head –
its first datacenter
coming up of multiple
in data storage in regions in the Middle hyperscale cloud data Cloud, Web Werks India
Saudi Arabia and the East (with locations in centers in the Middle Pvt Ltd.
UAE –the two biggest Dubai and Abu Dhabi) East, cloud services have The adoption of
Arab economies – set by offering Azure’s cloud also been seen ramping Cloud services and its
to rise to more than growth depend on
Dh1.5 billion in 2022. essential components
According to another “A hybrid cloud setup provides like Internet connectivity
recent study, the coverage, latency & cost
Middle East Datacenter the best of both the worlds - and policies pertaining to
marketwould grow to enterprises can store/process data storage on Cloud.
USD 3.7 Billion by 2025. “It is generally seen that
This spells huge scope their critical data on their on countries providing fast
for the region in terms premise setup also while they internet at cheaper cost
of growth of datacenters with better geographical
and is allowing burst on the cloud platform for area coverage has seen
both new as well as their unexpected workloads.” faster cloud storage
existing datacenter adoption and growth,”
providers to scan for observes Sachin.
opportunities to invest up. As a matter of fact, He further points
here. Equinix, Etisalat, computing services and an IDC report states that out that the rollout
DataMena, Khazna, Office 365,a month later the MENA Middle East& of 5G internet across
eHostingDatafort, it was Amazon Web North Afica) region will the Middle East region
Pacific Controls are Services that launched be worth US$5 billion to would be another
some of the datacenter three availability zones in cloud vendors by 2022. big driver for cloud
providers who focus on Bahrain. “With growth taking adoption. As 5G’s
Multi-City Datacenters, Oracle has also set place in the Cloud ability to provide
HyperscaleDatacenters up its first regional Computing space, latencies is less than 10
or Retail data center in Abu datacenter players have milliseconds, it will soon
ColoDatacenters. Dhabiwhile Alibaba has also started investing in allow organizations to
Besides a lot of been providing cloud the region by building deploy low latency 5G
other big names are services since 2016. their own presence applications like IoT. This

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