Energy Magazine February 2021 | Page 67

up or down with fluctuations in demand ,” said IDC ’ s Jyoti Lalchandani , Group Vice President & Regional Managing Director for the Middle East , Turkey , and Africa ( META ).
“ A public cloud platform provides enterprises with an agile , scalable , and cost-effective IT infrastructure that supports . However , public cloud is not necessarily an appropriate option for all types of workloads . As such , some enterprises are choosing to keep certain workloads on-premises – using an in-house datacenter – or on private clouds . This approach helps them achieve better performance , 24 / 7 availability , enhanced security , and greater compliance with regulations .”
Saudi Aramco Development Company , a subsidiary of Aramco , recently teamed up with Google Cloud to offer high-performance , low-latency cloud services to enterprise customers in Saudi Arabia . Google Cloud offers its customers multiple solutions , including AI , smart analytics , data management , security , infrastructure and application modernization . The collaboration taps into rapidly expanding cloud services demand in Saudi Arabia , which is forecasted to reach a market opportunity up to $ 10 billion by 2030 . Aramco Senior Vice President of Technical Services , Ahmad Al Sa ’ adi , said : “ We live in a world driven by data , and it is essential that companies not only have secure infrastructure to protect enterprise data , but also the
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