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data sovereignty and security issues, which
have been the main stumbling blocks in the
past, are no longer a concern. We are facing
exciting times with the advent of all these
public providers.
Do these announcements sound the death
knell for traditional hardware solution
providers? No doubt analysts will be keeping
a close eye on hardware sales in the next two
to five years.
I recently returned from Las Vegas where
there was a large public cloud provider
conference of more than 60,000 delegates
and I was thoroughly and pleasantly
surprised at the content and mindset of
providers, customers and partners.
One thing is clear – we are at an infliction
point in IT. Any CXO returning from this
event would have many questions about
their IT services and I suppose their first
priority would be to halt all procurement.
Why would you want to incur huge costs to
own and maintain your own data centre,
besides the operational and security
challenges that go with it? The advantages
of public cloud services have been well
Claude Schuck,
Regional Manager,
Middle East at
Veeam
“
AS BOTH
PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE CLOUD
CONTINUE TO
MATURE IN THE
REGION, MANY
COMPANIES WILL
OPT FOR BOTH,
LEVERAGING
MULTIPLE CLOUDS
TO SATISFY
THEIR DIVERSE
ENTERPRISE
COMPUTING
NEEDS.
documented. But the answer is not that
simple. As both public and private cloud
continue to mature in the region, many
companies will opt for both, leveraging
multiple clouds to satisfy their diverse
enterprise computing needs. Multi-cloud
combines on-premise operations with
services and applications running on multiple
cloud providers, which enables organisations
to capture the benefits of each platform
while mitigating their downsides.
In this heterogeneous environment, the main
challenge now is managing the distributed
data between all the clouds and centralising
this management to ensure visibility
regardless of where the data is residing.
The 2019 Veeam Cloud Data Management
report surveyed over 1,500 business leaders
globally and found that organisations
are on a journey to become a more
intelligent business, meaning they are
leveraging technologies such as Cloud Data
Management and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
to create a real-time view of the collective
business and the ability to act intelligently
on that insight. Among the businesses
on this journey, the study highlights four
common components globally:
1. Cloud: Cloud Data Management is a
key component of delivering intelligent
data management. Three-quarters
of companies report using Softwareas-a-Service
(SaaS) platforms. Many
are utilising the cloud for their backup
and recovery services, with 51% using
Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and 44%
using Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service
(DRaaS). It is evident that leaders
are recognising the advantages of a
multi-cloud and hybrid-based approach,
citing cost, reliability, flexibility and
data security of the cloud as their main
reasons for choosing it.
2. Capabilities: Organisations must
enhance their capabilities, to ensure
employees can draw on data insights
and use new technologies as they are
deployed, with nine out of 10 businesses
viewing upskilling employees’ digital
skills as vital to their digital success.
3. Culture: Creating a culture that is
adaptable and receptive to new
technologies so that people can evolve
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