Middle East IT finding a home in the clouds

Middle Eastern organisations increasingly prefer to obtain computer services via the internet, a process known as "cloud computing", rather than maintaining in-house IT services.

According to the international research company Ovum, companies across the region have confirmed that the adoption of cloud computing services has become a matter of when rather than if. The term cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that is often used to represent the internet in diagrams. By using the internet to gain access to pay-as-you-go computing services, companies hope to cut costs while streamlining their IT needs.

"A year ago, company information officers were telling us that around 5 per cent of the IT budget was being spent in the cloud," says Kevin White, an Ovum research director based in Dubai. "Over the next couple of years they are expecting to be spending anywhere between 10 per cent and 50 per cent in the cloud."

The IT industry believes that cloud computing offers businesses the opportunity to grow without large capital expenditure on IT. Tomorrow, Apple will be the latest company to unveil a version of cloud-computing.

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