Network Design is Key to Cloud Computing

Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Florence de Borja.

In a research by Bain & Company in the Middle East, it revealed that cloud computing revenues can reach almost $150 billion in 2020, which accounts to 8% of the total technology expenditures. The research, titled “The Five Faces of the Cloud”, believes that the Middle East has to strengthen its network if the region wants to harness all of the benefits of cloud computing.

A common path which companies take when they shift their operations to the clouds is to use infrastructure applications or Software as a Service. Then, these firms move to a more open architecture with management tools and APIs. When companies take this path, they can organize their private datacenters in such a way that they can take advantage of different datacenters for easy deployment of applications and better workload mobility. This will also allow for the efficient and effective network to run…

Most companies in the Middle East take advantage of cloud infrastructure for storage to off-site datacenters. This can be beneficial for small and medium scale businesses which have low storage requirements. However, for large businesses, the requirements are greater. There is a need for larger storage space at a lower cost plus the ability of the network to move data without dropped packets, security holes, or bottlenecks…

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