Dubai: Companies and government entities opting for private cloud services as a measure of control and security over public cloud could soon be a thing of the past.
Basil Ayass, Marketing Director Middle East for Dell, said that despite personal beliefs the two technologies were not separate and a hybrid model was the way of the future.
“The vast majority of customers today are using some form of public cloud and some for private cloud,” he said.
Companies in the UAE and abroad are already looking at their application services and steering them towards private or public cloud in terms of importance, he said.
While trends dictate that everybody will move to cloud, the idea of a hybrid model enables customers to draw the benefits of private and public.
Abdul Rahman Al Thaiban, Vice-President Pracle Middle East & Africa, agrees, telling Gulf News that Oracle was perfectly poised in the region to deliver hybrid cloud services.
Ayaas said that we’re still a few steps away but customers were already placing some applications such as e-mail and web hosting on public cloud whilst handling the rest on private.
The biggest challenge is transitioning between the two services and keeping them in sync. But the technology exists pointing to Dells ‘Boomi’ software, Ayass said.
