INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Even the most aggressive enterprise cloud
computing strategy can’t get off the ground
without a solid interconnection platform.
However, today’s legacy, corporate-centric
network topologies and siloed business and IT
organisations are not flexible or agile enough
to handle ubiquitous and “shapeshifting” cloud
computing environments.
By nature, multi-clouds allow enterprises to
pay-as-they-play, but current connectivity
infrastructures do not play along, forcing
businesses to either over-provision or, much worse,
under-provision their interconnection capabilities.
To gain the business advantages of an
interconnected cloud backbone fabric, enterprises
need a globally distributed, Interconnection
Oriented Architecture that shifts the fundamental
delivery of IT from siloed and centralised to
internetworked and colocated.
This level of interconnection helps enterprises
take full advantage of cloud capabilities and
enables their users to gain anytime, anywhere,
any device access to cloud services. This approach
reduces the overhead associated with IT services
and other business process applications, allowing
companies to focus on growth and expansion.
Finding an interconnected cloud ecosystem
enables the enterprise to create vital value-chain
resources that spur new products and services and
speed time to market, all while enabling greater
resiliency and more adept protection of essential
corporate assets.
As companies move through different phases
of cloud maturity, their challenges naturally
evolve. At the outset, they worry about gaining
cloud knowledge and what to put in which
cloud. As their enterprises grow more cloudagile, they work to master multi-cloud security
and advanced cloud operations. By integrating
a solid interconnection strategy into their cloud
migration plan from the start, enterprises set the
stage for optimum performance across the cloud
continuum.
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At a glance…
MENA public cloud
services forecast to reach
$864.2 million in 2016,
says Gartner
The The public cloud
services market in the
Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) region is
projected to grow 18.1%
in 2016 to total $864.2
million, up from an
estimated $731.6 million
in 2015, according to
Gartner, Inc.
Business process as a service (BPaaS), the largest segment of
the cloud services market by revenue in MENA, is expected to
grow 6.4% in 2016 to reach $262.4 million. The largest growing
market, cloud management and security services, is projected to
grow 27.5% in 2016, followed by software as a service (SaaS)
and platform as a service (PaaS) with growth of 26.4% and
23.4%.
“The forecast for overall cloud services in the region shows
sustained momentum with a projected growth rate of 20.6%
in 2017. Global market dynamics, currency and exchange rates
remain a determining factor in this growth trajectory,” said Sid
Nag, Research Director at Gartner.
“BPaaS revenue remains the largest segment with enterprises
continuing to move to cloud based models as opposed to the
traditional business process outsourcing (BPO). Furthermore,
growth of SaaS and PaaS is an indicator of organisations
and vendors moving away from on premises license based
application software and application development platforms
to subscription-based SaaS and PaaS models.”
Gartner predicts that in 2019, total public cloud services
spending in the MENA region will rise to $1.42 billion, with
the largest growth coming from cloud management and
security at 21%, followed by SaaS and infrastructure as
a service (IaaS) with growth rates of 20.2% and 19.3%
respectively.
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