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IT infrastructure has evolved considerably over recent years, but security considerations have remained static for many organisations. As first enterprise workloads have moved out of the organization to the cloud and then increasingly due to Covid, endpoints have moved from the office to the home, security remains largely focused on protecting the perimeter of the organization.

In addition, traditional servers have been transformed into Cloud workloads, containers and agile development apps platforms, however, it is still common practice to approach this new IT infrastructure with the same security solutions that are deployed for endpoint devices, according to a recent Gartner Report

Moving IT operations to the cloud benefits both large organisations and medium-sized enterprises alike. The flexibility of the cloud to scale up and scale down, the newfound agility to launch services quickly and the cost savings are hard for most companies to ignore. Consequently, there has been a significant uptake in cloud services in the Middle East and worldwide.

GCC cloud market is expected to more than double in value by 2024, growing from $956m this year to $2.35bn at a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 per cent, a recent study by IDC reveals.

In the Middle East, as around the world, the coronavirus pandemic saw technology leaders tasked with maintaining business continuity in the face of work-from-home developments, data privacy threats and increased cyberattacks. 2021 could accelerate that trend.

With COVID-19 likely to continue shaping the immediate business ecosystem, CIOs will be entrusted with a greater share of the business. Technology leaders will be under greater pressure to deliver big results and performance metrics will be more closely monitored.

Accordingly, for Middle Eastern CIOs looking to stay ahead of the game in 2021, here are three tech-focused resolutions that are easy to implement and could win management appreciation.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: BIOS Middle East, a leading provider of cloud and managed IT services in the Middle East announces it has established two new cloud footprints in Riyadh and Jeddah to serve customers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These were built out in late 2020 using the VMware cloud stack which has been the core of BIOS’ UAE offerings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi since 2013. Along with the launch of the new zones, BIOS has also confirmed that the first set of customers have already been onboarded, providing it with strong reference accounts in financial services, healthcare and other sectors.

Over the course of the pandemic, BIOS Middle East has demonstrated how outsourcing can help organisations cut costs and improve agility, scalability and cybersecurity. While customer-facing companies in the UAE and the Gulf were hit twice as hard, the downturn has also underscored the benefits of outsourced operations. Organisations with existing hybrid operations have managed the transition more smoothly;

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.”