{"id":3495,"date":"2015-10-18T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T17:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2015-10-18T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T17:59:49","slug":"lack-of-local-cloud-services-stifles-enterprise-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2015\/10\/18\/lack-of-local-cloud-services-stifles-enterprise-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of local cloud services stifles enterprise adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public cloud will stay \u201crelegated\u201d to non-essential administrative functions in the Middle East until local cloud services become available, according to Infoblox\u2019s local head, writes <em>Eliot Beer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Cherif Sleiman, vice president for the Middle East and Africa at cloud, DNS and IP address management firm Infoblox said while there was a lot of value for enterprises in public cloud services, companies in the Middle East just do not trust them with critical data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, there\u2019s a lot of concern about the NSA spying \u2013 so everyone has a lot of concern about data sovereignty. Even in the region, take a look at the political turmoil \u2013 neighbours are fighting, or they can\u2019t stand each other. There\u2019s an absolute lack of trust, for getting over the data sovereignty problem,\u201d said Sleiman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, public cloud in our region will be relegated for a very long time to come \u2013 most public cloud providers today are outside the region. This model is going to change \u2013 we have some public cloud initiatives that are within the region, so those will change the adoption. But until then, public cloud initiatives will be relegated to administrative applications such as Office, calendaring, and, to some extent, email,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>But Sleiman said even moving these lower-level applications to the cloud could bring benefits: \u201cThose types of things, where you can offload your IT from having to manage them \u2013 if you take a look at helpdesk, most helpdesk requests are around administrative issues. So organisations can realise benefits from throwing those applications into the cloud \u2013 who cares if they go away?\u201d    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public cloud will stay \u201crelegated\u201d to non-essential administrative functions in the Middle East until local cloud services become available, according to Infoblox\u2019s local head, writes Eliot Beer. Cherif Sleiman, vice president for the Middle East and Africa at cloud, DNS and IP address management firm Infoblox said while there was a lot of value for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,809,185],"tags":[22,20,177,184],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-more-news","category-uae","tag-cloud","tag-gitex","tag-infoblox","tag-uae"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}