BIOS Blog

• DUBAI, UAE, August 28, 2018
  
  BIOS Middle East, the Middle East's largest cloud provider with its in region cloud, CloudHPT is pleased to announce, that it has been named by Gartner Inc. in the 2018 "Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service" for the second year in a row.
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  BIOS Middle East, which leverages its in-region cloud, CloudHPT, to deliver its Assured Recovery Services was just one of 10 vendors globally (reduced from 23 in 2017) included in this year's list and was once again the only company from the Middle East.
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  In the Magic Quadrant for this market sector, Gartner analysts evaluated 10 service providers that offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.
  

Choosing which cloud is best for you and who is best to manage it is no easy task. You will find several cloud companies in the Middle East and many integrators offering to resell or manage cloud solutions. All of them claim to provide exceptional customer service and guaranteed up time too. The challenge then is to find a supplier that can not only help you migrate to the cloud, provide excellent service and up time but who is also an ideal match for your business. This paper is designed to help you measure different potential partners and help you find the one best suited to your business.

Healthcare firms are adopting cloud services at a fast pace globally. The combination of reduced CAPEX and scalable, agile IT resources that cloud delivers suits the unpredictable workloads and lean IT teams common in this industry. A BIOS customer in the UAE healthcare industry that was challenged when they purchased a new HIS system with constantly increasing IT costs  for the infrastructure and building a centrally, locally hosted data center, they discovered more benefits than they’d expected with the CloudHPT Secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution.

Read the Case Study - UAE Healthcare provider achieves cost savings of 40% and moves to secure cloud with CloudHPT IaaS

BC/DR. DRaaS. RTO. RPO…you’re probably asking yourself, “is this even English? What am I reading?!?!?”

Cozmo Travel is one of the leading travel solutions provider in the GCC, a member of the Air Arabia Group. Rising from humble beginnings in Sharjah in 2010, Cozmo has grown to become a leading player in the travel industry across the GCC region, offering both online and offline travel booking services to clients in the MENA region.

The company has grown significantly since 2010. Today, Cozmo has more than 750 employees. The company boasts 100+ branches across GCC, & India, 46 of which operate in United Arab Emirates. This expansion has led to an increasing need for a reliable, robust IT systems. 

As a technology-driven firm, Cozmo relies heavily on their IT team to support exceptional service for its growing customer base. Their service operates 24/7, so they need an IT team that does the same.  Services must be available to their employees, customers and stakeholders at any time, requiring around-the-clock support and monitoring of IT assets.

If your company relies on IT to get the job done, you need a disaster recovery plan. You might even think you have one. But are you sure it’s strong enough to be effective?

Ever since computers have been networked together, unauthorized access has been a concern. From the first viruses to modern-day cryptocurrency hacks, users have always needed to fend off cyber attacks. As computers have become a larger part of life and business, that concern has only grown, and rightly so. Major vulnerabilities are revealed with alarming frequency. Security holes like Meltdown and Spectre appear as if from nowhere, infecting huge numbers of systems and requiring immediate patches to close major vulnerabilities. Heartbleed undermined the security of OpenSSL, perhaps the largest secure communications protocol in the world. Critical Middle Eastern infrastructure was disrupted with the TRITON malware in December 2017, and 56% of the companies in the growing MENA market reported losing more than $500,

000 in cyber-attacks, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2016 report.

No business is immune from these kind of system vulnerabilities and attackers. As cyber crime become more sophisticated, how can you protect yourself—and your company—from cyber-attacks? The key is constant vigilance and appropriate security layers.

Now that your organisation is VAT-ready, you might want to think about getting up to snuff regarding some other common standards. Many clients look for organizations that meet specific professional standards regarding how client information and in-house processes are managed. And they don’t want to just take your word for it, they need proof.

Globally some of the key certifications include ISO 9001/ISO 27001. These certifications mark your organization as worthy of trust, as certified by a third party. 

There’s a growing need for organizations to be certified under one or both of these compliance standards, but getting certified is difficult, expensive and time-consuming.

“Digital disruption” was once the buzzword of the year, when long-frozen markets were suddenly seeing change and upset by small, web-based competitors that understood technology and market needs better than existing players. This lead to the dethroning of companies that were previously considered inviolable and permanent in many markets.


While that wave of disruption in the U.S. has slowed down to manageable levels and UAE companies lead their GCC peers in going digital, they must do more to engage consumers in their market, who are among the most tech-savvy in the world, and stay relevant in an age of disruption.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, January 31, 2018

BIOS, a specialist in disaster recovery services, has been appointed Disaster Recovery Service (DraaS) provider by Al Naboodah Group Enterprises (ANGE), one of the UAE's oldest and most respected family conglomerates with a diverse portfolio of businesses.