Who are the major local cloud services providers resisting confidence erosion among organizations post-Snowden episode?

‘Snowden exposure’ came as a bigger blow to the international cloud computing market. Organizations- private as well as government- became apprehensive of their data privacy under the care of major service providers. Consequently, they turned to their local market as an alternative solution, although it was already in place, only its popularity received a higher-peak momentum in recent times. Look across the GCC organizations to know data privacy comes as top of all priorities. What none of the organizations in GCC is ready to ignore also is the data centre infrastructure and the kind of technologies being used by the data centres in GCC.

Here are a few benefits obtainable from the local cloud computing services and which are unavailable with the global public cloud services hosted outside the immediate region.

•          Faster and easier access to applications as the infrastructure is hosted within a particular region, for example the GCC
•         Complete control over security and conduction of audits
•         Lower latency

In GCC, the demand for local cloud services has been on rise phenomenally. There are many data centres providing cloud services and all four types of them, namely the Private, Public, Hybrid, and Community, are provided by them. Make a round of their offers for cloud services and see the varying service features, appendices and charges. More or less, they could apparently appear as same but when tested, their true worth will be understood.

So that you aren’t hoodwinked by their services, make sure to check out the following features.

•         See if the data centre is an ISO27001:2013 certified
•          Pay-as-you-go offer
•          Zero CAPEX (Capital Cost to build on-premise infrastructure)
•         Auto-scaling
•          Dynamic allocation of resources
•         24/7 customer support
•         Availability of all Operating Systems

Even before you select a cloud services provider in GCC, it is your prerogative to see if the service provider guarantees to provide transparent services all along strictly backed by a SLA. Making the right selection of cloud solution is a wise step forward to smoothly ride across cloud services. So, select the solution type in accordance with your requirements. Keep budget in mind side by side and remember that none of the solutions can be like one-size-fits-all solution.

Check out the visual below to know features of four types of servers. 

As you go over the GCC cloud computing service market, you will come across names of a lot of cloud service providers. Among them the one which must stand out is Oman Data Park. First of all, you will get full-service cloud computing services ranging from variety of cloud servers, .OM Domain registration services, virtual private servers, to cloud backup services. Most importantly, this is an ISO27001:2013 certified data centre in the GCC which must be a mark of trust for you, ensuring complete security and safety of the client data. Thirdly, Oman Data Park has a wide variety of services providing solutions for enterprise and SMBs. Do you know few like Oman Data Park brings in per second billing flexibility for its clients?