While visionary IT leaders often cite cloud as a means of freeing themselves from performing mundane administrative IT tasks, there is still an inherent fear about the impact of cloud computing on IT employment and current infrastructure. Together with bandwidth, security, and privacy issues, these are some of the key challenges that cloud providers have to address before the full potential of cloud computing can be realised.
Without a doubt, cloud computing has opened new growth opportunities for ICT providers, telecom operators, and enterprises, yet the real business impact in the Middle East remains vague.
In this market insight, Frost & Sullivan will focus on the role of cloud in enabling opportunities for enterprises of the future in the Middle East and the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) as well as the potential it holds for ICT vendors.
