The pace of public cloud increases in the MENA region

Cloud computing is skyrocketing in the Middle East as many organizations are migrating processes and data to the cloud. The region is undergoing economic transformation. More countries are implementing smart city initiatives to update their vision while improving the digital economy. Gartner predicts end-user spending on public cloud services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will reach $ 5.7 billion in 2022.

Unleash the opportunity
Meanwhile, major cloud players like Oracle are also demonstrating their commitment to the region with large investments to enable organizations of all sizes to achieve their strategic goals through digital transformation. Cloud providers launched cloud regions in Jeddah and Dubai in 2020 and cloud regions in Abu Dhabi in 2021. We also announced NEOM as the second cloud region location in Saudi Arabia, bringing the total number of cloud regions in the Middle East to four. Oracle aims to launch 44 cloud regions globally by the end of 2022.

Based in Johannesburg, Oracle launched the first cloud region in Africa in January 2022.

Oracle’s cloud regions in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), allowing customers to easily migrate their current workloads and data platforms, improve performance, and reduce costs. You can develop new cloud-native applications with built-in security. Features. Customers now have access to a complete portfolio of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications and Oracle Autonomous Database to choose the architecture that best suits their business needs.

What Abu Dhabi’s Cloud Region Means for Business
Abu Dhabi’s cloud region aims to provide customers with more robust business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. At the launch event of the Abu Dhabi Cloud Region on January 19, the company will support the UAE’s Fourth Industrial Revolution strategy, which focuses on advancing the national economy by driving innovation with the latest technology. Was emphasized.

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— Oracle Middle East (@Oracle_ME) January 19, 2022

“The rapid adoption of cloud-based technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning is essential to building a thriving digital economy and is an important priority for UAE’s EMEA technology. Richard Smith, Executive Vice President, said:

Jyoti Lalchandani, Group VP and Regional Managing Director of IDC, said: The role of the cloud in enabling innovation is highlighted by the priorities that organizations have given to the cloud in their digital transformation initiatives. Cloud-based technology has helped organizations whether the Covid-19 crisis and the cloud help build a resilient organization that can withstand uncertainty. “

Supporting the promotion of FDI in the United Arab Emirates
More and more organizations in the United Arab Emirates are migrating some or all of their on-premises IT infrastructure deployments to SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS cloud environments, resulting in a variety of benefits. This includes open-ended scalability, infrastructure flexibility, rapid deployment, and faster time to market, with access anytime, anywhere. Not surprisingly, one of the most sought after benefits is cost savings.

These significant cost savings have been returned to the local economy and are making an important contribution to the domestic digital economy.

Dr. Tani al-Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade in the United Arab Emirates, said: For the next 50 years, it has become the center of our economic and investment strategy. We are committed to developing an innovative, knowledge-based economy that will facilitate the development and deployment of future technologies, and attracting human, financial and technological capital to the country is central to these ambitions. “

Better than competitors
Oracle’s strategy is to meet customers where they are and to keep their data and services where they need them. “Our strategy is based on the idea that we need to design the cloud to support all apps, rather than forcing customers to redesign their applications to work in the cloud. To do this, we had to build another cloud, and as a result, unlike other cloud vendors, the full range of software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud services. “We offer,” the company said in a statement.

According to Oracle, several key differentiators distinguish it from other cloud vendors. Customers can choose OCI over AWS to easily implement security controls and automation, prevent misconfiguration errors, and implement security best practices. In addition, you can take advantage of cloud services within your own data center that uses the public cloud or Oracle Dedicated Region. [email protected]

On the other hand, if you choose OCI over Google Cloud Platform, you can mitigate your risk with Oracle’s end-to-end SLAs that cover service performance, availability, and manageability.

Be ahead of the times
Oracle is also committed to sustainability and is committed to using 100% renewable energy to power all Oracle cloud regions around the world by 2025. Some cloud regions are already fully powered by renewable energy, and all Oracle cloud regions utilize energy management and cooling technologies to reduce their environmental impact.

Cloud providers are one step ahead in the region. Major organizations such as DP World, Abu Dhabi Customs, Qatar Airways, Kuwait Gulf Oil Company, Miral, Saudi Railway, Mashlek Bank, Damak, Saudi Arabia Tourism Development Fund, Saudi Railway Company. Saudi Arabia Mining Cimpany (Ma’aden) has already selected the Oracle Cloud solution to drive key transformations within the organization.

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