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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.

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.

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;

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’.

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.

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.

When you’re shopping for a managed cloud provider, there are several attributes you’ll want to evaluate and keep track of. Essentially, you need to make sure that your managed cloud service can meet your company’s needs reliable and consistently, with the right services and products to make your managed cloud solution painless from start to finish. Let’s evaluate the top five steps you’ll need to take to choose a managed cloud service provider

CloudHPT has been awarded the prestigious “Cisco Master Cloud & Managed Services Partner of the Year Award”. Cisco showcased the winners at their UAE Partner Summit.

This award recognizes the company that uses best-in-class practices and serves as a model to the rest of the industry. Areas of consideration include their innovative practices and process, architecture-led approach successes, and strategic business focus that result in customer success.

The Master Cloud & Managed Services Partner of the Year Award recognized CloudHPT as the first and only partner to achieve Master Cloud and Managed Services Certification in the UAE, with record performance in Q1 2016.