Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 16 | Page 22

COMMENT THE ENTERPRISE ARGUMENT FOR HYBRID CLOUD Hybrid cloud is set to be one of the biggest, most valuable technology opportunities for enterprises in 2017 and looking ahead over the next few years. To take advantage of this opportunity enterprises must apply the same principles they utilise in maintaining multiple data centres to data storage in the cloud – whereby a single cloud will no longer suffice, writes Richard Agnew, VP NW EMEA at Veeam Software. 22 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com