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WINNING STRATEGY FOR A MULTI-CLOUD WORLD HOW NOT TO STUMBLE ALONG THE PATH TO MULTI-CLOUD SUCCESS
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or CIOs in the Middle East, the question is no longer whether to move to the public cloud or not, but to decide how to leverage many cloud services available in the market. It is becoming increasingly common for enterprises to use various cloud service flavors – SaaS, IaaS and PaaS – from a myriad of cloud service providers. It is easy to see why many organisations are heading in the direction of a multi-cloud strategy and hybrid IT environment. It helps CIOs to avoid vendor lock-in, and take advantage of the unique functions and capabilities of different service providers.
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CXO INSIGHT ME
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The research firm IDC says by 2022, over 90 percent of enterprises worldwide will be relying on a mix of onpremises/private cloud, multiple public clouds, and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs. IDC expects 2021 to be the year of multi-cloud, with the vast majority of enterprises deploying combinations of on-premises, off-premises, public, and private clouds as their default environments. “Accelerated by COVID-19, we continue seeing a trend in which companies are migrating to the cloud,” says Khaled Al Melhi, CEO of Injazat. “Even organisations who once were reticent are realising the importance
of shifting costs from CAPEX to OPEX and, particularly, the numerous benefits of multi-cloud solutions. Firstly, multicloud solutions allow firms to choose from many public cloud providers based on the service they really need and best fits their product. It allows them to ’shop around’ and choose the provider with the best offer. One that makes commercial sense to them. Secondly, it reduces the dependency on one provider and mitigates the risk of having all data compromised in a single breach. Lastly, it allows a more flexible approach to create a highly individualised IT infrastructure that responds to the needs of each client.”
