Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 10 | Page 82

FINAL WORD HOW AND WHY THE PUBLIC CLOUD CAN BE USED BY ENTERPRISES IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO GET WORK DONE At almost every conference, event or analyst meeting you attend, you’ll hear someone discuss how your business can benefit from the Operating Expense (OPEX) model, greater agility, and faster deployment speeds offered by the public cloud. But let’s be honest: If you go to your internal IT staff and propose the public cloud, you’ll get a lot of pushback. They’ll talk to you about a number of issues, most notably security, legal compliance and a loss of control over the company’s valuable data, writes Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, MEA and SAARC, Veeam Software. 82 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com