Accelerating Kuwait Digital Transformation Through Secure Cloud

Accelerating Kuwait Digital Transformation Through Secure Cloud

By Kamal Zian, CSO of Huawei Gulf North

Cloud computing has been one of the major trends shaping technology over the past decade. Governments and enterprises have overcome initial concerns over regulation and cost to embrace outsourcing their computing requirements and storage needs. This move to the cloud is enabling digital transformation and the adoption of digitally enabled business models across all sectors.

The pivot away from owning and operating traditional servers and IT infrastructure towards private virtualized cloud and public cloud from hyperscale providers is an essential part of the digital economy evolution.

Underpinning this major shift in business operations is the abundance of data. Research shows that 50% of the data will be hosted in the cloud by 2025, bringing more flexibility to businesses to process, store and manage this huge amount of data more efficiently, securely and in a scalable manner, leaving organizations to focus on innovation in their core business.

In line with those developments, the government of Kuwait represented by CITRA adopted a “Cloud First” policy, where public bodies must first consider and assess hybrid cloud solutions before seeking other alternatives when integrating technology with public services. The choice of cloud is well defined by a data classification policy