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In 2017, ransomware dominated the news. Malware like WannaCry and NotPetya sparked global outages. Based on its diminished position in the media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that ransomware represented a lesser threat this year.

While there have been fewer world-shaking attacks, however, ransomware has actually grown steadily more popular, with Sonicwall reporting a 108% increase in ransomware over 2017 levels. Here are a few hallmarks of ransomware growth in 2018.

Dubai, 10 October 2018 — BIOS Middle East, a leading cloud and managed services provider, has achieved Gold Status as a Veeam Cloud Service Provider Partner.  BIOS Middle East is the first Veeam partner in Middle East to achieve this status.

Veeam is a strategic partner of BIOS Middle East for data protection solutions and services. BIOS Middle East uses Veeam software to provide offsite backup and replication from on premises data centres as well as backup and replication within CloudHPT (BIOS’S Cloud brand).

Veeam Cloud Connect allows for customers with on premises data centres to back up their servers to CloudHPT over the internet. Flexible pay on demand backup retention's and policies can be implemented on CloudHPT through your local Veeam Console.

With business continuity being a big priority for IT, we know you'll want a copy of the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service* report. 

In this report, CloudHPT (Cloud Solution division of BIOS Middle East) has been recognized in the Disaster Recovery as a Service Quadrant  for the second consecutive year. 

With more than 15 years of experience in helping customers protect critical business data and minimize the impact of disasters, we believe this recognition reflects our proven, customer-centric approach with DRaaS solutions that deliver:

• Market-leading security and compliance
• Unmatched visibility and management
• Simple, cost-effective disaster recovery pricing
• World-class on boarding and support

Azizi Developments, one of the most revered real estate developers in the UAE, has joined forces with BIOS Middle East (BIOSME), the Middle East's largest cloud provider with its in region cloud, CloudHPT to enhance its IT infrastructure.

BIOSME will leverage industry-leading cloud solutions to offer Azizi Developments a suite of fully managed services that includes hosting their ERP and critical workloads with a BCP strategy.

Cloud adoption in the Middle East continues unabated. Our cloud business in the Middle East is growing at approximately 200% year on year. While we see smaller companies can move easily to the public cloud, enterprises prefer a hybrid cloud model. This can be due to cost, data sovereignty and corporate policy. And this preference is not just limited to the Middle East but is a global trend.

Consider these recent stats from Right Scale:

1. • 50 percent of enterprise IT teams say hybrid cloud is a priority.
   • 74 percent of enterprises say hybrid cloud enables business growth.
   • 85 percent adopted a hybrid strategy last year.
   • 91 percent of IT pros think hybrid will remain a priority in 2023

• 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?!?!?”