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Hello, it depends. Cloud solutions may not satisfy regulatory or compliance for certain types of information.
Exactly, Cloud solutions have a phenomenal impact and advantage over the 'sinking down' systems by the means of its availability from anywhere and nature of the technocratic era. It sets a platform where the user enjoys its benefits without knowing its infrastructure headaches.
Most of the MENA region countries are good consumers of technology and its solutions but the technical resource pool is also very limited. From a consumer or customer point of view, if their resources are able to fetch from any part of the world by secured means of Infrastructure is more pleased for them. It is a transformation of on premise data centre to cloud where some regulatory compliance are also to be considered. However, most of MENA region countries and their ICT Authorities were amended their policies to keep updated with the current world.
Yes. Cloud is the future. The main idea behind the cloud is that you can access all your information over the internet without having any detailed knowledge of the infrastructure used to enable it. This reduces cost as well as effort to maintain the environment.
Gartner Says Public Cloud Services in the Middle East and North Africa Region Forecast to Reach $1.2 Billion in 2017
The growth in PaaS and SaaS are indicators that migration of application and workloads from on premises data centers to the cloud, as well as development of cloud ready and cloud native applications, are fueling growth in the cloud space. Software vendors will continue to shift investments from on-premises license-based software to cloud-based offerings.
According to sources Middle East Cloud Infrastructure Services Market will be worth 7.46 Billion USD by 2021. This are clear indicators that moving to cloud if it suits the needs of your organization will be a sensible step to take.
Is a difficult situation as for one side is a great advantage for those serious businesses that are facing a tough geopolitical situation that is affecting their business and investments and Cloud solutions is there only stable approach for keep the business operational.
On the other hand, there are several regulations in place that demands more compliance and information filters for MENA businesses, this situation is delicate but could be easily handled with an open mind approach to focus on the business goal and not in the geopolitical issues affecting the environment.
