GCC public cloud adoption on upward trend

GCC public cloud adoption on upward trend

The adoption of the cloud across the GCC region will continue to increase in the coming years, with the GCC public cloud market expected to grow from $956 million in 2020 to $2.35 billion in 2024, experts said.Speaking during a webinar on accelerated cloud adoption and data center management on Thursday, Harish Dunakhe, research director for Software & Cloud at IDC, noted that hybrid cloud adoption is rising in the GCC region and that business continuity is a top priority. He also noted that the current situation with the Covid-19 pandemic has put the spotlight on working from home for many companies and that, in turn, has brought a new focus on cloud spending.Enterprise IT spending is set to fall to about five per cent in the GCC, with the