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Dubai, UAE, March 18, 2019: BIOS Middle East, the leading Managed Cloud Provider in the UAE, announced that it has been awarded “The VCSP Partner of the Year” by Veeam Software, the market leader in Backup and Disaster Recovery, at the recent 2019 Veeam Partner Summit held in Lebanon.

The Veeam Cloud and Service Provider (VCSP) award recognized BIOS Middle East for its Veeam-powered services in 2018 and dedication to enable its clients’ business continuity and the Always-On Enterprise.

When it comes to cloud security, a lot of companies are in the dark. Ideally, the public cloud operates under a shared security model. This means that cloud customers take care of some aspects of security, while cloud providers take care of others. Unfortunately, this is not universal knowledge – according to research from Check Point, one-third of all IT professionals fundamentally misunderstand this premise, believing that all security should be handled by the cloud provider.

Why do you need cloud based Disaster Recovery?

The number one reason is you can't afford downtime. The headlines out there are filled with crazy stories, although it might not happen to you at that scale, any outage can cause IT admins and CIO's to lie awake at night wondering if they are protected well. Whether you call it IT resilience, data protection, business continuity the reality is you cannot afford downtime due to some unforeseen issue. Hence, it’s not a luxury but a necessity in today’s world. It is critical to be always available for internal and external customers. You know that if you are not able to be reached by a customer they will go somewhere else and find your competitor or even worse your internal customers makes resort to shadow IT that is outside your purview which can cause a whole lot of other issues. When you listen to the news, natural disasters get the biggest headline but normally that is not what is happening in your IT environment. The reality is most of the times you will experience outage because of hardware faults, software faults, malicious ransomware, malicious users or accidents by users.

When it comes to managed services providers, helpdesk services are crucial. If your team members find themselves locked out of mission-critical applications or plagued by bugs, their productivity and morale will suffer. Getting their issues resolved in a timely fashion is crucial to business success. An MSP that fulfils these three helpdesk KPIs will help you be a more effective organization.

If you’re like over one third of businesses, you might not be fully aware of the impact of unplanned downtime. Here are some quick figures – nearly half of businesses experience over four hours of unplanned downtime every four months, and according to Aberdeen, just one hour of downtime can cost an average of $260,000 USD. In other words, a thriving business can expect to lose at least one million dollars a year, if not more, due to IT failures.

You've been hearing a lot about cloud for a long time now. But, did you know that the market size for cloud is growing exponentially and is projected to be at $317 billion by 2022 and "by 2021, at least 75% of large and global organizations will implement a Multi-Cloud capable hybrid integration platform, up from less than 25% in 2018."*

Luckily, the answers you need to build a multi-cloud strategy that will withstand the test of time is here. I'm happy to share our Multi-Cloud newsletter featuring Gartner research.

Private data centers are expensive. They cost money in terms of power, maintenance, and man-hours – and even though many companies are switching to the cloud, 75% of companies still use private clouds. Here are a few ways to mitigate the necessary costs of private cloud ownership.

Congratulations! Simply by contemplating a vulnerability scan, your organization is more prepared than a majority of organizations. A recent study by Tenable shows that only 48% of companies perform any kind of regular vulnerability scan whatsoever – and only 5% conduct rigorous practices. If you want to become part of that 5%, however, you have to do more than consider a vulnerability scanning program – you have to commit.
Here’s what you need to know:

There are two ways to get started with Multi-Cloud – by accident or on purpose. By accident means that people start using different clouds for different things with no road map for a common management, security, compliance, or cost-optimization strategy. Aiming for multi-cloud on purpose means having these ducks in a row.

Let’s not focus on people who have a strategy, however. If anything’s clear, it’s that many more organizations end up with multiple clouds by accident then walk into it with their eyes open. How does this happen, and how do you rescue yourself when it does?
Accidentally Stumbling into the Multi-Cloud.

While cloud opens a new world of scale and agility, there are some serious risks that need to be mitigated if moving to the cloud is to be a success. The chances are, if a company is using cloud, it is because they want to be closer to their customers and to have more interaction. This means exposing data that would traditionally sit behind a corporate perimeters that was locked down to the big world. This can be done safely but it needs planning and managing.

Security considerations in a Multi-Cloud world.

Once companies embrace the cloud and reap its benefits it is almost inevitable that they will become Multi-Cloud users. You may think that a multi-cloud environment may look like a CIO purchasing implementations from HPT, AWS, and Azure. What it actually looks like is different business units buying six different cloud solutions.