FEATURE
Cloud computing offers numerous
business benefits but its
popularity has had a clear impact
on the traditional on-premise
data centre. We hear from experts
at Pure Storage and Riverbed
about the impact of cloud and
how businesses can best prepare
for a hybrid IT infrastructure.
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Your optimal route to hybrid IT infrastructure –
educated, planned and strategic
Assaad El Saadi, Regional Director, Middle East, Pure Storage
Today’s most evolved enterprises know the potential of their data
as a competitive lever and for insights into their customers. They
also know that not all data is created equal. To build the most
modern IT environments and derive the maximum value, there is
a growing acknowledgment that data types have different needs
for access, storage and management.
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In the Middle East, there has been a growing movement towards
the adoption of hybrid IT environments, where workloads and
services are split across cloud and non-cloud environments such
as on-premises hardware, private cloud, co-located cloud and
public cloud.
According to IDC, public cloud spend in the UAE alone is set to
soar from around US$119.6m in 2017 to US$411.4m in 2022.
When a market more than triples in value in a five-year period, we
should take notice.
But challenges persist, especially in the Storage-as-a-Service domain.
Many third-party providers of this increasingly popular hybrid
cloud offering have not managed to catch up with more stringent
requirements when it comes to enterprise class-deployments.
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