ACME’s Hussaini shares how the company empowers customers on cloud transformation journeys

What trends have you observed in the past two years on the adoption rate from customers about cloud infrastructure solutions?

We all know that the pandemic accelerated digital transformation with the pace and acceptance the way which was not possible earlier.

Cloud became mainstream during the difficult times and in the past two years the adoption of cloud became much more elaborate in terms of the workloads that are getting migrated to cloud. A key trend now is customers’ willingness to go multiple cloud, which opens a huge opportunity for trying out new solutions.

With cloud adoption happening consistently in the recent years, application modernisation is also being looked in parallel to the adoption. While progress is made in moving to cloud, cybersecurity has become an important concern.

The solution footprint is now getting vast as customers deploy more and at times niche cyber security solutions. In addition, on-premise cloud infrastructure that connects with public cloud and offers a seamless experience is finding its place where the data concerns are higher and restrict the usage of public cloud.

How far has Bahrain’s Cloud First Policy fuelled this transformation?

Bahrain took the lead in establishing the first region for AWS in the Middle East. This encouraged many cloud giants to set up data centres in multiple countries in the GCC.

With the Cloud First policy, the public sector was fast in migrating to cloud. Finance and healthcare sector was not left behind, first in regulating the cloud adoption related policies and then the migration itself.

Today, in Bahrain we see almost all the market verticals hosting their core applications on cloud. Bahrain has been doing good on the e-services front, however, the cloud first policy helped in rolling out new services much faster.

We have seen the benefit of Cloud First Policy during the pandemic when the disruption to services was minimal compared to other countries where the cloud adoption was not to the level of Bahrain. We now have over 85 per cent of the government data and 72 government entities on cloud in Bahrain. In addition, the cloud related skills availability enhanced in the country.

In your opinion which industry verticals are leading digital transformation/cloud adoption?

In the case of Bahrain, the public sector is surely leading in cloud adoption. Finance sector has very elaborate digital transformation programmes. However, all the major sectors including retail, healthcare, education are now equally engaged in the digital transformation that is very crucial for them to stay relevant in the current era. In addition, all the service-oriented industries are keen on having cloud as the basic infrastructure.

Please share how ACME is positioned/equipped to facilitate its customers on their cloud transformation journeys.

Almoayyed Computers Middle East (ACME) prepared itself well in advance to become a key player in the era of hybrid world comprising of on-premise, on cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure.

With this readiness and partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and HPE, ACME took the lead in offering a cloud practice of world class maturity.

ACME has one of the largest cloud certified pool of resources available in the region and competencies that are elaborate. ACME has a strong application activity that is engaged in helping customers modernise their applications.

Migration to managed services, ACME is offering comprehensive as well as custom designed solutions across verticals.

S.M. Hussaini is the CEO at Al Moayyed Computers Middle East (ACME)

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