Cloud4C

Cloud simplified

Rakesh Reddy, regional director-MEA at Cloud4C, explains why businesses must engage managed cloud service providers.

What is driving the demand for managed cloud services in the Middle East? Firstly, the cloud-first policy adopted in Middle Eastern countries such as UAE, Bahrain and KSA have propelled cloud adoption and, as a consequence, have increased the demand for managed services. We provide managed cloud services to over 150 enterprise customers in the Middle East across various public platforms. This also includes Cloud4Cs local data centres in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

Secondly, the pandemic has changed consumer behaviour and impacted spending patterns. This change has disrupted the way the current businesses are run. Consequently, this disruption has put pressure on the organisations to innovate new supply chain models, service delivery systems, HR policies, and newer sales models and revisit their business continuity plans. And the only way to carry out these changes in a faster, scalable and secure manner is to adopt the journey on the cloud.

In response to the accelerated demand to embrace new technologies, optimise application performance and costs, companies are becoming increasingly dependent on managed services players (MSP). The MSP can help unleash the entire power of the cloud, provide the industry- best application availability, robust BCP and DR solutions, support in adhering to data localisation laws, preventive and predictive issue resolutions, topped up with a promise to provide single SLA at app layer - all at a fraction of the price they would incur if they manage it all by themselves.

For successful business transformation propelled by cloud transformation, partners like Cloud4C become an ideal ally as the CIOs are able to leverage the vast pool of readily available cloud-certified experts coupled with automation-driven managed services delivery, 24/7. Cloud4C helps organisations migrate, manage, secure, and optimise the cloud and take the responsibility of providing a single SLA of 99.9% uptime at the application login level with instant 40% TCO reduction.

Can you help to manage the multi-cloud environments of your customers? With 2000+ cloud experts, certified on leading public cloud platforms and 25 ‘Centers of Excellence’ spanning different application providers like SAP, Intellect Design, Finacle, Microsoft etc., and hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, IBM Cloud, Cloud4C is well-equipped to manage critical workloads in a multi-cloud environment. Our homegrown automation platform, the Self-healing Operations Platform (SHOP), makes it easy and way too economical for enterprises to manage multi-cloud set-ups. It provides a single pane dashboard showing a holistic view of their environments.

We understand that enterprises choose multi-cloud architecture to distribute workloads across multiple cloud environments so that they can get the best returns possible while mitigating risks associated with individual cloud environments. Cloud4C will help enterprises chalk out the roadmap to migrate, manage multi-cloud environments, and modernise their applications and data. To optimise costs and improve efficiency, if you are thinking multi-cloud, you should be thinking about Cloud4C.

Do you help your clients meet their compliance requirements? With more infrastructure to protect, evolving regulatory landscape to adhere to, more stringent governance requirements, burgeoning IoT and Industrial IoT deployments, and above all, innovation becoming the lynchpin for resilience and survival, meeting compliance requirements has become a mammoth task besides being a critical one. Cloud4C offers automation enabled ‘compliance as a service, where we take end-to-end responsibility in maintaining all the required compliance and security controls on the cloud with quarterly or monthly compliance and gap assessments reports leveraging various automation tools. With a unique compliance as a service (Caas) offering, we make it easy for enterprises to continuously maintain compliance with a broad array of industry, country-specific, and worldwide standards and regulations to effectively protect their organizations.

The geography-specific standards that Cloud4C helps organisations adhere to are OJK, NESA, DFSA, SAMA, Dubai IRS (UAE).