Demand for cloud services is rising in Qatar, as more companies – from start-ups to the largest enterprises – look to reduce their capital investment and enhance the range of innovative services they can access through the cloud.
Recent research from Gartner suggests that ‘cloud services’ will be one of the top three priorities for IT investment in 2016. Ooredoo has emerged as one of the leading providers of cloud support in Qatar and the wider region.
Ooredoo chief operating officer Yousuf al-Kubaisi said, “We are finding that more and more companies are looking to explore the benefits of cloud services, as a way of introducing more innovation throughout their organisations and controlling costs. One of our most successful products of 2015 was our ‘Infrastructure as a Service,’ which delivers the scalability that companies require so that they can continue to manage an expanding volume of data without necessarily seeing a parallel growth in infrastructure costs.”
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for businesses provides companies in Qatar with access to an array of virtual server plans delivering world-class virtual dedicated machines.
Hosted in Ooredoo Data Centres, IaaS provides customers with dedicated virtual servers that enable them to access and administer hosted applications over the Internet from anywhere in the world.
Benefits of Infrastructure as a Service include support for multiple operating systems, Virtual Private Network (VPN) features to extend customers network on the cloud, options to set-up disaster recovery services, and access to a full range of backup and monitoring services for the virtual machines and applications as part of managed services offerings.