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BIOS Middle East, a leading provider of cloud and managed IT services for enterprises, announced that it is collaborating with VMware to offer VMware SD-WAN to customers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. BIOS would be the first cloud provider to launch VMware SD-WAN in these countries.

VMware SD-WAN delivers high performance and reliable access from branches or work-from-anywhere locations to cloud services, private data centers and SaaS-based enterprise applications in a cost-effective manner. It simplifies branch wide area networking by automating deployment and improving performance over private, broadband Internet, and LTE links for today’s distributed enterprises. VMware SD-WAN is a foundational component of VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, which converges network services with best-in-class cloud security and Zero Trust network access to deliver flexibility, agility and scalability for enterprises of all sizes.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 31, 2020: BIOS Middle East, a leading provider of cloud and managed IT services for enterprises, announced that Delma Exchange, a UAE based global currency exchange, has successfully completed its large-scale cloud migration and business continuity project. Delma Exchange is embracing the latest IT technologies to add more value to internal productivity and customer offerings.

Our customers are using cloud to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. In this new case study, we’ll show you how BIOS Middle East helped our customer:

• Achieve a reduction in ongoing IT costs by over 50% and no future capital expenditure

• Achieve regulatory compliance for IT and improved security to protect critical data

• Provide an agile platform to innovate and increase efficiencies 

UAE Based Pure Health, the GCC’s largest laboratory network has signed an agreement with BIOS Middle East, the region’s leading cloud and managed service provider for hosting Pure Health’s core Laboratory Information System (LIS) on CloudHPT, a fully owned and managed cloud by BIOS. In keeping with the urgency to meet the requirements, BIOS delivered over 20 servers in under two days to Pure Health for application installation and testing. Besides, BIOS Middle East is also entrusted to provide complete managed services for the servers, networking, storage security and backups to ensure that Pure Health can focus on their LIS application.

Pic (L to R): Dominic Docherty, Managing Director, BIOSME and  Adnan Asif, Chief Technology Officer, Pure Health

We interviewed Noor Takaful’s Chief Digital Acceleration Officer, Frederick Bisbjerg on their successful migration from an on-premise setup to a fully managed cloud environment.

He says “This modern, agile, scalable and secure cloud environment eliminates future CAPEX requirements in the process. We now have a future proofed IT environment that is compliant to the industry standards and lower running operational costs.”

A fully managed and secure cloud comes with a lot of advantages for the working reality COVID-19 has brought.

1. For a start it removes the IT Infrastructure away from the office and removes the risks associated with it.
2. It provides for infinitely more scalable remote working.
3. It allows customers to quickly spin up new services as they try new avenues to market such as eCommerce.
4. It makes adding Disaster Recovery extremely easy.
5. Since security is built in; risks to the business from a cyber-attack reduce enormously.
   

The majority of IT security is traditionally focused on securing the corporate network
at the perimeter and the core. The new reality of working remotely due to COVID-19
means the game has changed. Hackers are less interested in bypassing corporate
firewalls now they know they can attack the endpoints much more easily and gain
access that way. In addition, now that all the users are outside of the network,
disrupting a company’s ability to work is as simple as filling up all their available
bandwidth at the data center.

As the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic spreads, executive leaders face pressure to cut costs, but it’s critical to avoid a knee-jerk response. Executive leaders must avoid three cost reduction mistakes that could impede their progress – these are discussed in this report and they are:

1. Making across the board cuts
2. Stifling growth investment
3. Losing stakeholders commitment

According to Gartner, “COVID-19 has disrupted operations and will have prolonged impacts on continuity of operations, modes of working and growth patterns. CIOs need to respond to the crisis with both short- and long-term actions to increase resilience against future disruptions, and prepare for rebound and growth.”

As businesses in the Middle East adjust to the new realities of operating during the COVID 19 pandemic, BIOS is committed to providing thought leadership information and solutions that can help our customers navigate these uncertain and difficult times.

As governments and healthcare workers undertake herculean efforts to protect their citizens from COVID 19, the common theme from all of them to their citizens and residents is ‘stay at home and you will be safe and it will help us contain this virus while we search for a cure and treatment’.

In light of this, almost all companies that can, have now asked their staff to work from home. While we know that staying at home and maintaining a period of isolation will protect our physical health, what about the health of the companies we work for? The health of these businesses and the ability of employers to pay staff during this time is also critical to our well-being and the well-being of society. Company health is directly linked to employee productivity and IT departments across the globe must now focus on enabling employees to work form home the same way as they could previously from the office. With this in mind we have written a whitepaper that we think you will find useful called ‘Keeping businesses healthy in a pandemic’.