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Tuesday, 26 July 2016 ehdf

Smooth Transition To The Cloud – Best Practices

Before migrating to the cloud, CIOs need to assess the company’s long-term business and infrastructure needs, establish realistic goals and priorities, set deadlines and consult with finance directors on IT budgets. This is important because reversing IT systems is time-consuming and expensive. Apart from having an understanding of what resources are available for implementation and maintenance, CIOs should, with proper planning and strategy, keep the complexity and cost to a minimum. They need to determine whether the transition will be managed in-house or outsourced to a third party vendor.

CIOs need to evaluate both private and public cloud options and see which platform best meets their business requirements. Before moving information to the cloud, they need to conduct an internal review with business heads to identify which data can be moved to the cloud. Full cloud integration may cause regulatory compliance issues as certain data must be secured internally. Enterprises must also be cautious of where they store different types of data.

CIOs need to ensure that their organizations have effective data recovery and backup management tools in place in case of any loss during data synchronization. If the organization has planned to outsource the migration, it is important to know if the cloud services provider has a robust data backup strategy and recovery procedures.

While choosing a cloud vendor, it is important for CIOs to review and evaluate their security standards, policies and governance models to ensure that their organizations’ data is safe, secure and protected at all times. They must be aware of procedural and policy differences between their organization and external companies and software vendors. They need to understand where the data will be stored and comply with the legal requirements in their own country as well as the country of the cloud services provider. Organizations can also consider a hybrid solution to secure critical data.

We recommend partnering with a cloud services provider (CSP) who offers service level agreements (SLAs), 24/7/365 support and follows security standards, processes and procedures to get the most value from a hybrid cloud model. Local CSPs could provide enterprises with a local data center and 24/7 bilingual local support.

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Tuesday, 19 July 2016 ehdf

Managed Services Market growth in Middle East Set To Rise

According to a recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan, the Managed Services Market growth within the Gulf Cooperation Council states is set to expand from USD...

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Tuesday, 12 July 2016 ehdf

Implementing Strong Network Security – Top Tips for SMEs

Security threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and harder to detect. Many small and medium-sized enterprises are still convinced that a firewall...

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Tuesday, 5 July 2016 ehdf

Preparing for the Worst: Basic to Advanced Disaster Recovery Tests

If you are afraid to implement a test run on your disaster recovery systems, then it is probably not robust enough. As business continuity remains a priority...

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