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Partnership will see ZainTECH deliver unprecedented value to clients while ensuring compliance with local regulations

Dubai, UAE - Riyadh, KSA – March 19, 2024

ZainTECH, the integrated digital solutions provider of Zain Group, is pleased to announce the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with CoreStack, a global multi-cloud governance provider. This partnership aims to provide NextGen multi-cloud governance, FinOps, and cost management solutions.

The adoption of cloud technology has been on the rise and for good reason - businesses streamline their operations, improve their agility, and reduce costs. However, with the increasing complexity of cloud environments, managing costs has become increasingly important.

This is where cloud cost management comes into play. It refers to the processes and tools used to control, monitor, and optimize the costs associated with cloud usage. With effective cloud cost management, you can maximize the value of cloud investments and achieve the desired outcomes.

Cybercrime is on the rise and it’s important that each member of your organization realizes the importance of data security. Cybersecurity Ventures expects global cybercrime costs to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025.

In today’s post, we will discover how to develop a robust data security strategy to secure your business and prevent external attacks.

Investing wisely in your assets and infrastructure is key to a higher return on investment. However, to really understand which infrastructure is most cost-effective for your business, you need to perform meaningful cost comparisons.

Cloud Total Cost of Ownership, or TCO for short, is a metric that defines and assesses how effective the cloud is for you by adding up all the costs associated with the purchase, operation, and maintenance of your cloud components.

With 2022 likely to continue to be a year of uncertainty, businesses across the GCC and elsewhere are now being forced to re-examine costs and streamline operations expenditure – all while complying with new regulations.

Lessons from other players in the region can inspire leaders to find new solutions in these trying times. Leading mortgage provider Abu Dhabi Finance serves individuals as well as companies with innovative flexible finance solutions. But it needed an innovative IT solution to avoid major CapEx, streamline OpEx, facilitate remote working, and ensure compliance with Central Bank regulations.

A fully managed and secure cloud comes with a lot of advantages for the working reality COVID-19 has brought.

1. For a start it removes the IT Infrastructure away from the office and removes the risks associated with it.
2. It provides for infinitely more scalable remote working.
3. It allows customers to quickly spin up new services as they try new avenues to market such as eCommerce.
4. It makes adding Disaster Recovery extremely easy.
5. Since security is built in; risks to the business from a cyber-attack reduce enormously.
   

As governments and healthcare workers undertake herculean efforts to protect their citizens from COVID 19, the common theme from all of them to their citizens and residents is ‘stay at home and you will be safe and it will help us contain this virus while we search for a cure and treatment’.

In light of this, almost all companies that can, have now asked their staff to work from home. While we know that staying at home and maintaining a period of isolation will protect our physical health, what about the health of the companies we work for? The health of these businesses and the ability of employers to pay staff during this time is also critical to our well-being and the well-being of society. Company health is directly linked to employee productivity and IT departments across the globe must now focus on enabling employees to work form home the same way as they could previously from the office. With this in mind we have written a whitepaper that we think you will find useful called ‘Keeping businesses healthy in a pandemic’.

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

“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.