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When you’re shopping for a managed cloud provider, there are several attributes you’ll want to evaluate and keep track of. Essentially, you need to make sure that your managed cloud service can meet your company’s needs reliable and consistently, with the right services and products to make your managed cloud solution painless from start to finish. Let’s evaluate the top five steps you’ll need to take to choose a managed cloud service provider

Cloud computing has become widely adopted across a broad range of industries in the Middle East and North Africa. Both small companies and large enterprises have recognized the importance of adapting innovations into their daily business operations to secure a steady growth within a constantly evolving market.

The need of integrated services that handle the DRaaS, SaaS, and IaaS of a company has led many businesses towards considering a cloud-oriented approach that either uses a hybrid or a cloud-only system to guarantee the security and integrity of company data.

According to a research conducted by IDG, businesses are relying now more than even on cloud computing to achieve business growth. A report by Gartner states that by 2018, at least 30% of companies in the service sector will move their enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) applications to the cloud.

As the cloud service sector continues to mature, the one-fits-all approach no longer applies to the industry. Strategic IT advancements continue to have a profound impact on business development, yet, the pressing need of innovation changes the way tech-driven companies operate. The need of personalisation of cloud services has created a market where the cloud strategy and IT initiatives are aligned closely to the goals of the business.

The 2017 edition of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) providers has just been released and CloudHPT is recognized in the “Visionary” quadrant.

Enabling digital transformation of enterprises in the healthcare vertical, Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company has announced that it is working closely with managed IT services provider BIOS ME to serve one of BIOS’s key customers – the Avivo Group.

CloudHPT, the first and only Cisco cloud provider in the UAE is being hosted in the Equinix data center in Dubai and facilitating digital transformation of organisations across the region. Avivo, one of Middle East’s leading healthcare organization hosted their hospital information system (HIS) on CloudHPT for a seamless patient-centric experience. However, the smooth migration of 13 working locations to cloud was never an easy job as a minimum downtime was required for migration to the cloud.

At the recently held ‘Partners for Success’ event that took place in Fairmont Hotel (Palm Jumeirah), Cisco honored BIOS with the “Services Partner of the Year” award for top performance in the local cloud service providing sector.

The Cisco Partners event and awards ceremony celebrated top performing tier-2 channel partners and focused on the opportunities and rapid growth that digital transformation brings to businesses and the technology industry in the UAE and across the region. As the only Cisco-powered cloud service provider in the region, BIOS has made an undeniable contribution to the development of the local IT market and has been recognized for its outstanding performance in the sector.

The need for higher flexibility, better organization, and disaster recovery planning for technology-driven companies will push more and more small businesses and large enterprises towards the rapid adoption of cloud-based services, DRaaS, SIEM, and IaaS solutions. This article takes a closer look at the information technology infrastructure trends expected for the upcoming year.

Information security handles the protection of digital privacy of critical data of businesses, organizations, and individuals. It includes various preventive methods for restricting unauthorized access to databases, systems, machines, and networks.

Security measures include but are not restricted to data backups, encryption, DLP planning, digital rights management, and more. This article discusses ten things that you need to be doing in 2017 to ensure your data is secure.

CloudHPT has been awarded the prestigious “Cisco Master Cloud & Managed Services Partner of the Year Award”. Cisco showcased the winners at their UAE Partner Summit.

This award recognizes the company that uses best-in-class practices and serves as a model to the rest of the industry. Areas of consideration include their innovative practices and process, architecture-led approach successes, and strategic business focus that result in customer success.

The Master Cloud & Managed Services Partner of the Year Award recognized CloudHPT as the first and only partner to achieve Master Cloud and Managed Services Certification in the UAE, with record performance in Q1 2016.

CloudHPT, the GCC’s first Cisco Powered Cloud for IaaS & DRaaS offers another set of first: 

• The first Veeam Cloud Disaster Recovery-as-a-service in the GCCC.
• A free 1TB trial of Veeam Backup-as-a-Service for all Veea m customers

If you’re a Veeam customer then you can now seamlessly used Veeam Coud Backup UAE (from)  and/or Veeam Cloud Disaster Recovery UAE (from) services from within your installation of Veeam. Using a VeeamCloud service based in the UAE means the latency to your site is very low meaning DRaaS and BaaS will work perfectly.

Backup, Replicate, Restore and Run from the Veeam Cloud UAE with Veeam Cloud Diaster Recovery UAE (from) and VeeamCloud Backup UAE (from).