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With a variety of cloud services now in offer from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft the decisions involved in moving to the cloud can feel like a minefield. Cloud readiness assessment cuts through the clutter to recommend the best approach for moving your applications to the cloud. Good ones set out a way forward that included running costs, transition plans and time scales and you have no longer have to take all or nothing approach a cloud readiness ass will highlight if hybrid cloud is right for you. It’s the simple way to cut through the clutter and starts with just 5 questions.

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

At the recently held ‘Partners for Success’ event that took place in Fairmont Hotel (Palm Jumeirah), Cisco honored BIOS with the “Services Partner of the Year” award for top performance in the local cloud service providing sector.

The Cisco Partners event and awards ceremony celebrated top performing tier-2 channel partners and focused on the opportunities and rapid growth that digital transformation brings to businesses and the technology industry in the UAE and across the region. As the only Cisco-powered cloud service provider in the region, BIOS has made an undeniable contribution to the development of the local IT market and has been recognized for its outstanding performance in the sector.

As the popularity of cloud computing grows across the Gulf, more companies are starting to adopt the benefits of cloud services into their business infrastructure. One of them is the UAE based investment company Jaleel Holdings. The company has interests in multiple sectors, including, education, metal fabrication, logistics, and fast-moving consumer goods.

As part of its growth strategy, Jaleel Holdings entered into an agreement for managed cloud services with BIOS, a leading cloud service provider in the UAE. Jaleel Holding's several sites across the UAE will connect to CloudHPT in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.