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Revisiting the cloud premise: The nuances of on-prem workload repatriation
Sascha Giese, Global Tech Evangelist, Observability, SolarWinds, tells us how a smarter approach to cloud repatriation and investment in observability can help Middle East organisations optimise workloads, control costs and thrive in a hybrid IT world.
For years, cloud computing was the tech world’ s buzzword. As recently as 2020, it was hailed as the silver bullet, allowing people to work from anywhere, enabling businesses to scale their operations instantly and delivering digital services at speed and with agility. Enterprises rushed to migrate workloads to the cloud, inspired by its promises of flexibility, cost-efficiency and future-readiness. All this has only gained momentum with the on-going AI boom.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have become focal points for hyperscaler investment. Microsoft, Oracle, AWS and Google Cloud have all launched or announced major data centre expansions in the region. It would be easy to assume that a wholesale shift to the cloud is inevitable. But that’ s only part of the story.
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