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FINAL WORD
Why you should
use a backup
solution to
protect your
cloud data
Many organisations believe that, once
their data is in the cloud, their worries
are over. Simon Hwang, APAC President
from Synology, however, gives convincing
reasons for organisations to invest in a
cloud backup solution to create a fool-
proof situation around their data.
A
s a region, the Middle East has its own set of compliances and
privacy requirements. One of the very stringent requirements
is to keep its government, mission critical, public sector data
resident within its areas of jurisdiction. For this reason, in the last few
years a number of cloud and infrastructure vendors have initiated roll
outs to host their local editions in the region.
Gartner has forecast that Middle East and North Africa spending on
public cloud services including software, infrastructure, platforms and
security, will cross the US$2 billion mark by 2020.
Overall, the adoption, usage and spending on public cloud has
seen a consistent double-digit growth in almost every region of the
world. The primary reason for this is the switch-over from an asset-
based capital expenditure model for IT spending to an operating
expenditure, pay-as-you-use model, that is provided by a public cloud
type of consumption service. This reduces the burden of having a
high initial expenditure outlay and a software vendor-based lock-in.
The consumerisation of IT, which is so much a part of the public
cloud platform, continues to be an enabler for the double-digit
growth of IT spending on this platform. On the flip side, it has
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