As Middle East organizations increasingly run business applications across multiple clouds, the region’s cloud market is set to nearly triple to $2.4 billion by 2020, according to a recent report by Markets and Markets.

CEOs across the region are accelerating multi-cloud approaches to their business applications and technology infrastructure. Different cloud providers can provide best-of-breed cloud services, help avoid cloud lock-in, and serve as a backup to cloud failure.
 
However, moving to a multi-cloud environment should be a business-led decision, rather than technology for technology’s sake, said Condo Protego, the UAE-based IT infrastructure and information management consultancy and solutions provider.
 
“While the Middle East’s tripling cloud applications market shows that CEOs understand the cloud’s business benefits, they may not be fully aware that cloud migration can be a challenging process,” said Andrew Calthorpe, CEO, Condo Protego. “In digital transformation roadmaps, Middle East organizations should outline the time, costs, and resources needed to move data to the cloud, between clouds, and even off the cloud.”
 
Worldwide, 85 per cent of enterprise IT organizations are committing to multi-cloud architectures in 2018, according to IDC . Separately, Veritas shows that about two-thirds (67 per cent) of organizations are using at least two cloud service providers.
 
“Middle East organizations that succeed in multi-cloud environments follow a five-step approach: establishing data visibility, enabling cloud migration, leveraging software-defined storage, prioritizing data regulation and compliance, and eliminating data protection silos,” added Calthorpe.
 
Condo Protego is seeing strong regional demand for Veritas Cloud Mobility and 360 Data Management solutions that enable data and workload portability to, from, and between on-premise data centers, managed private clouds, and public clouds, a statement said. – TradeArabia News Service