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Cloud TCO and What it Really Means?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 @ 11:00 AM

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.

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Topics: UAE Cloud, Cloud Provider UAE, Cloud UAE, private cloud, best cloud provider UAE, multi-cloud, multicloud, BIOSME Saudi Arabia, local cloud provider, gcc cloud, cloud Oman, managed secure cloud

Noor Takaful Accelerates Its Digital Transformation Journey with BIOS Middle East’s Cloud

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Dec 15, 2019 @ 02:51 PM

Dubai, UAE – December 15th, 2019: BIOS Middle East, a leading managed services and cloud provider in the UAE, announced that it has successfully completed Noor Takaful’s migration from on premise to the cloud, to accelerate its digital transformation journey.

 

Noor Takaful was established in early 2009 to provide a broad range of Islamic insurance (takaful), general and customised insurance products and services to individuals, families, groups and companies in the UAE market.

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Topics: it infrastructure services dubai, it transformation strategy, it services, cloud services, cloud and managed service provider, azure, multicloud, cloud hosting

Whitepaper: Ultimate Guide to Multi-Cloud

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Mon, Nov 25, 2019 @ 06:27 PM

The worldwide public cloud services market will reach over $221 bn in 2019 and Gartner says the market will reach just under $400 bn in 2023. That’s some growth.

Underneath those headlines, roughly 50% of organizations are using an approach to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) strategy that is a Multi-Cloud in order to leverage best-in-class capabilities from different cloud providers. Gartner predicts companies using Multi-Cloud will increase to above 75% by 2020.

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Topics: cloud and managed service provider, multi-cloud, aws, azure, multicloud, cloud hosting

Why are cloud services being adopted at an exponential rate?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Oct 27, 2019 @ 12:47 PM

The total cloud spend of the Middle East is estimated to stand at just below 1bn USD but it’s predicted to grow to 4bn by 2022. In fact this isn’t just happening in the Middle East, globally cloud is being embraced by almost all organizations and is expected to hit 300bn of spending by 2022.

But why are so many companies moving to the cloud so quickly?

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Topics: IaaS, cloud services, cloud and managed service provider, multi-cloud, azure, multicloud, cloud hosting

BIOS Middle East puts spotlight on multi-cloud during GITEX 2019

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Wed, Sep 18, 2019 @ 02:15 PM

Successfully advancing customers’ cloud journeys, UAE-headquartered BIOS Middle East together with global technology giant Cisco, will be showcasing how customers can efficiently and securely manage workloads across a multi-cloud environment, at the 39th edition of GITEX Technology Week, taking place from 6th to 10th October 2019 at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). 

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Topics: multicloud, gitex

Is your IT infrastructure keeping you down?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Wed, Jul 03, 2019 @ 01:40 PM

Are you being held back by outdated infrastructure? Have your servers and hosts reached end of life? If the answer to these questions is yes then you are not alone. How to deal with ageing infrastructure is one of the biggest challenges being faced by companies today.

 

In an age where the pressure for digital innovation is intense and is on the tip of everyone’s tongue, many companies are stuck with a dilemma – under pressure to embrace digital technologies to improve business efficiency, yet without the resources to move forward. They want to be lean and streamline processes but don’t have the IT platform to support their ambitions.

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Topics: cloud and managed service provider, aws, azure, multicloud, cloud hosting

BIOS Multi-Cloud newsletter featuring Gartner research

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Wed, Jan 30, 2019 @ 12:41 PM

You've been hearing a lot about cloud for a long time now. But, did you know that the market size for cloud is growing exponentially and is projected to be at $317 billion by 2022 and "by 2021, at least 75% of large and global organizations will implement a Multi-Cloud capable hybrid integration platform, up from less than 25% in 2018."*

Luckily, the answers you need to build a multi-cloud strategy that will withstand the test of time is here. I'm happy to share our Multi-Cloud newsletter featuring Gartner research.

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Topics: multicloud

How do Companies Get Started with Multi-Cloud?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Wed, Jan 16, 2019 @ 12:20 PM

 

There are two ways to get started with Multi-Cloud – by accident or on purpose. By accident means that people start using different clouds for different things with no road map for a common management, security, compliance, or cost-optimization strategy. Aiming for multi-cloud on purpose means having these ducks in a row.


Let’s not focus on people who have a strategy, however. If anything’s clear, it’s that many more organizations end up with multiple clouds by accident then walk into it with their eyes open. How does this happen, and how do you rescue yourself when it does?
Accidentally Stumbling into the Multi-Cloud.

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The benefits of using a Multi-Cloud Strategy

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Dec 23, 2018 @ 10:03 AM


 

First of all, let’s start with the basics, what is Multi-cloud?

This one is pretty simple, multi-cloud is the concept of using of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single architecture.

How did it evolve?
Well first came the concept of cloud, as companies became conformable with it and began to realize the benefits, much as the elimination of capital expenditure, the ability to scale up and down and the agility to provision workloads almost instantly. Today almost every company we speak to is using some elements of the cloud to run their business on. With that came concerns about governess and security and companies began to develop a hybrid cloud approach. Keeping some works loads on their premise and even building private clouds and using the public cloud for the rest. This then developed to a cloud first approach for many companies, where the preference became to use the cloud, be it private or public as the first choice for any application. Now businesses are beginning to use multiple public clouds due to the advantages this approach brings. Namely;

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Topics: siem, multi-cloud, aws, azure, multicloud

How to perform a Cloud Readiness Assessment in 5 steps

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Thu, Dec 20, 2018 @ 11:38 AM

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.

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Topics: IaaS, cloud services, multicloud, cloud hosting

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