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Effective cloud-native strategies must include application-performance monitoring writes David Noël, regional vice president, Southern Europe, Middle East & Africa at AppDynamics
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020 has tested our resolve. As businesses found themselves with splintered workforces and stayat-home customers, they had to find ways to evolve their operations to fit a new reality. Customers and employees alike required a different IT architecture to be able to carry on as before. The acceleration of digital transformation may have been inevitable in hindsight, but it spun the head of many a regional CIO.
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Even before the current crisis, 88% of technology managers in the UAE intended to spend more on cloud computing, according to a YouGov survey, and analyst IDC predicts the Arab Gulf’s public cloud market to more than double in four years. Furthermore, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker found that COVID-19 was directly responsible for an acceleration of cloud infrastructure procurement in MENA this year. But despite this collective enthusiasm, cloud isn’t an easy win or one-size-fitsall solution. It requires careful planning and it’s likely that your board will want to know their return on investment. Many businesses have rightly turned to cloud for answers, but they might be missing a trick. In a fast-changing, rapidly evolving business landscape, real-time application performance monitoring (APM) is the most effective way of getting the most out of applications serving your customers and ultimately your business, especially those built natively in the cloud.
