UAE Business: Aruba launches first Enterprise Cloud-instance in UAE – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Aruba launches first Enterprise Cloud-instance in UAE – Gulf Digital News

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has announced the much-awaited launch of the company’s Enterprise Cloud instance in UAE. The new deployment is in response to the increasing appetite of enterprises in the country for cloud-based networking that provides resilience, efficiency, automation and flexibility of business.

The Cloud instance will provide in-country data residency and enable local enterprises to maintain proximity to their data.

Zeeshan Hadi, country manager, UAE at Aruba provides insight on the launch saying: “We have witnessed an acceleration in the demand for cloud services in the UAE, as organisations seek to modernise and transform their IT infrastructures and architectures in order to support a hybrid workforce. According to a report by Ken Research, the UAE Cloud services market is set to grow at a CAGR of 16.9% in terms of revenue generation, over the period 2021-2026. However, one of the key barriers to cloud adoption has been around data residency, and concerns over data that is stored in a cloud hosted outside the borders of a country, especially when it relates to customers operating in regulated industries like government, healthcare and financial services. The launch of our UAE Cloud instance is a momentous achievement and will go a