Solutions by stc: Leading Cloud Innovation Across KSA
Cloud transformation is no longer a buzzword; it has become a fundamental driver of resilience, innovation, and competitiveness for businesses in Saudi Arabia. Over the past few years, the Kingdom has witnessed exponential growth in cloud adoption, aligning with the bold ambitions of Vision 2030. As someone who has been deeply involved in this journey, […]
Driving Cloud-First Adoption in KSA with Solutions by stc
As organizations embrace digital transformation, adopting a Cloud-First Strategy has become a top priority. Cloud-first doesn’t just mean moving workloads to the cloud. it’s about designing applications, processes, and operations with the cloud as the default choice, enabling agility, scalability, and innovation. Solutions by stc, as a trusted system integrator helps local businesses in Saudi […]
Mastering Complex Cloud Migrations: Strategies, Challenges, and Best Practices
Migrating IT systems to the cloud is a strategic move for modern organizations seeking agility, scalability, and cost efficiency. However, complex environments with multiple applications, interdependencies, and legacy systems can make migration challenging. This article highlights the challenges organizations face in cloud migration and provides practical strategies and best practices for success. Challenges in […]
DR, HA, and Backup: Building a Resilient Business Infrastructure
Introduction In today’s digital world, downtime or data loss can directly impact business reputation, revenue, and customer trust. IT leaders often hear the terms High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Backup, but these concepts are frequently misunderstood or used interchangeably. While all three aim to ensure business continuity, they address different challenges and operate […]
IT Strategy in Times of Global Uncertainty
The last few years have changed how we think about IT ? What used to be a support function keeping systems running, managing costs, enabling projects has quietly become one of the most critical levers of business resilience. Today, uncertainty isn’t an exception; it’s the operating environment. For organizations in regions like Saudi Arabia, where […]
Future-Ready IT: Aligning IaaS with KSA NCP Standards
In today’s evolving digital landscape, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has become the cornerstone of IT modernization. But success in the cloud requires more than migration it demands strategic integration of technology, security, and compliance, especially under the Saudi National Cloud Policy (NCP) framework. Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 calls for digital resilience, innovation, and […]
Cloud Freedom: Reducing Risks of Vendor Lock-In
Cloud adoption is accelerating across every industry. Enterprises are turning to providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba, and VMware Cloud to drive agility, scalability, and innovation. With this growth, however, comes a strategic concern: vendor lock-in. Lock-in arises when technical dependencies, contractual terms, or financial barriers make it difficult to […]
Cloud Without Strategy Is Just Expensive IT
The uncomfortable truth Let me start with a conversation I’ve had more than once with senior leaders across the Kingdom. “We moved to the cloud to save cost… so why are we spending more?” Cloud doesn’t reduce cost by default. Cloud amplifies whatever discipline or lack of discipline you already have. Globally, cloud adoption is […]
What is Alibaba Cloud Savings Plan?
Alibaba Cloud Savings Plans We have discussed types of Alibaba Cloud Savings Plans that give you the flexibility of Pay-as-you-go billing and procedure, as well as benefits of using it Alibaba Cloud Savings Plan A new price strategy called savings plans can decrease the cost of pay-as-you-go instances by up to 76%. These savings plans […]
Google Cloud Targets a High-performance ARM-Based VMs
Google Cloud announced the preview of the new ARM-based virtual machines and a fully managed job scheduling system. ARM VM will create a new part of Google’s top-end Tau VM lineup, designed for scale-out workloads such as large Java applications, web servers, and media transcoding. A post. Another declaration, Batch, is a fully managed job […]
Google Anthos with Hybrid and Multicloud
The introduction of cloud computing changed the face of the global market, demonstrating its disruptive potential. Cloud technology has inaugurated a new phase of technology with increased computer power, improved communication, and seamless mobility. The tech behemoths have noticed that customers are increasingly favoring the construction of hybrid and multiple clouds now that cloud computing […]
Cloud Climate Competes With Network Visibility
Cloud requires more network visibility to improve environmental management, control east-west traffic in the data center, and identify encrypted malicious traffic. Cloud Network visibility is becoming blurred, and enterprises are investing in tools to avoid fog, tighten Security, and increase the productivity of IT professionals. Most (78%) of the companies plan to increase their spending […]
Enterprise Cloud Strategy Treads For 2022
There are few areas of technology that have organisations more split on their use than cloud computing. Some see it as the future and avoid it at all costs, while others skip it entirely or rely heavily on legacy systems to keep data in-house. The truth is that with the increasing popularity of cloud computing, […]
Scaling Cloud Workload
Scale workload is the term used for describing the performance demands of a system as it grows in size. The scale workload can be characterised by the time it takes to complete a task, or the number of tasks that can be completed in a given period of time. As a system scales, its performance […]
CLOUD COMPUTING APPLICATION IS PERFECT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
Cloud computing has facilitated many companies to be managed more effectively on a remote server by implementing broadband internet. You already use some cloud storage level, whether your company relies on Dropbox to store data, uses Slack to promote company communication. Your small business can leverage cloud computing to streamline activities with an in-depth analysis […]
Road To Business Continuity: Backup Vs Disaster Recovery
Importance of business continuity and disaster recovery plan For companies today, there is an unprecedented amount of exposure in the industry. It is important to take into account everything from weather-related questions to cyber hacks. Disaster recovery and business continuity strategies offer a vital way to ensure that without the correct resources in place, you […]
Distributed Cloud: Applications and Benefits
A distributed cloud is one of the applications of cloud computing technologies used to interconnect data and applications that are served from different geographic locations. In the context of IT, distributed means shared between multiple systems that can be based in different locations. It helps speed up communication for global services and also enables more […]
Investing in Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
Choosing the right disaster recovery solution for your business can be a trying task. Such an important part of the continuity of your business with data security and recovery, there is nothing to take DR to light. Several factors are involved in this decision. When we consider the most important factors of DR – security, […]
On-Premise to Cloud Migration: 4 Key Challenges in Becoming Cloud-Native
This indicates that businesses are continuing the importance of deploying workloads in the cloud and migrating applications from on-premises to the cloud. The dynamic nature of the cloud platform makes infrastructure requirements to facilitate scaling change in a relatively pain-free process. A successful migration faces many challenges including controlling costs, choosing the right architecture, and […]
Successful Disaster Recovery Plan
Nearly three out of four business companies all around the world fail with respect to their disaster management plan and system. The most obvious thing in the world is that each and every business be it a new one, a small one, a big one, or an old one, all of them need to always […]
Multi-Cloud Strategy
There is a lot of hype about businesses adopting multi-cloud strategies using public, private, and hybrid cloud services. Businesses, especially mid-market and enterprise-level industries can use a multi-cloud strategy as a smart investment by leveraging its flexible performance and virtual infrastructure benefits. A multi-cloud strategy is the use of multiple cloud computing services. Although multi-cloud […]
All You Need To Know About Cloud-Based Testing: Types, Challenges, Objectives
Cloud-Based testing is a kind of software testing in which software applications are tested using cloud computing services. The purpose of cloud testing is to test software for functional as well as non-functional requirements using cloud computing that ensures rapid availability with scalability and flexibility to save time and cost for software testing. Types of […]
Data Sovereignty Concern in Cloud Transition
Data sovereignty is the concept that any piece of data is subjected to the laws of the country within whose borders it exists at any time. This concept is proving to be a very challenging one for businesses as they are moving their data to the cloud. There is a high fine charged by most […]
What is Cloud Computing? Definition & Advantages
In very simple terms cloud computing is the process in which on-demand computing services are delivered over the internet. Such services may include storage, applications, processing power, and other such things. These services are delivered on a “pay as you go” basis and everything is done over the internet. This means that various companies do […]