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would also open newer Shift to Hybrid Cloud country (in Abu Dhabi cloud platform would
avenues like Cloud However in recent and Dubai), it is helping seem the viable option.
Gaming, Industrial IoT years the concept of enterprises slowly shift Moreover multi-city
and onsite augmented Hybrid cloud is slowly to a hybrid cloud model. solution deployments
reality guidance. coming up as an answer In fact a hybrid cloud like IoT would require
Moreover some to increasing workloads setup provides the best enterprises to rely on
organizations have which is a combination of both the worlds Edge Clouds to relay
experienced a lot of of cloud services and -enterprises can store/ data to their core setups.
issues during Covid on premises datacenter. process their critical data So these scenarios would
lockdown. This will also As the UAE market on their onpremise setup drive organizations to
drive many organizations has already adopted also while they burst adopt more and more
to partially use Cloud cloud services for on the cloud platform Hybrid setups,” he
computing services for their mainstream data for their unexpected further explains.
addressing their business processing, this has also workloads. Additionally with
continuity needs. resulted in enterprise “An organization the Middle East
“Overall storage customers exploring could also prefer to government developing
consumption would data protection laws,
increase on cloud many enterprises are
and datacenter/ adopting or are on the
onpremise setup as verge of developing
newer solutions like IoT hybrid cloud strategies
would start receiving to keep certain customer
lot of information at a information on premise
faster pace,” contends in order to ensure
Sachin.“This data needs regulatory compliance.
to be collected faster
and processed further to And so...
make it meaningful and It is understood
so organizations need to that every business is
have a holistic approach different and hence
while moving towards SAchIn r. wAIngAnkAr demand different
the cloud computing priorities and strategies.
platform. They need Vice President& Head - Cloud, The growth of
to classify data, its Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd. datacenters as well
objective, comply with as adoption of cloud
policies and design an IT storage services in the
architecture that could Cloud computing move towards the cloud UAE are indicative of
utilise Cloud storage and platforms beyond a platform as they would the fact that both the
onpremise datacenter.” typical onpremise setup. like to keep unknown models are going to
Companies like “In a couple of users or roaming users co-exist. With businesses
VMware, Dell EMC, years the hybrid cloud away from their core on facing issues like data
IBM, and Oracle have market would grow premise setups,” cites regulations, legacy
been providing cloud as more enterprises Sachin. software, infrastructure
computing services in start exploring Cloud “There could be a maintenance cost,
the Middle East for over computing world scenario where a user security and so on, the
a decade and have been without disturbing their needs to deploy an IT best option is often to
catering to industries on premise setup,” architecture or project deploy both a cloud
like the banking and Sachin says. for a short period of time platform and keep an
construction industries, Alsowith companies or require this setup for on premise server and
and also for government like IBM setting up a short duration. Under essentially making the
organizations. datacenters in the such circumstances a two work in unison.

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