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Centralising Cloud Management Top Priority For UAE Organisations: Red Hat
BY: DEEPAK SINGH ON: OCTOBER 9, 2024 IN: NEWS

Red Hat has announced new survey results highlighting key drivers for cloud strategies over the next 18 months, which
showed that 66% of UAE-based businesses surveyed plan to prioritise centralising cloud management.

In addition to other key findings, 44% of surveyed organisations across the UAE stated they would prioritise moving to
hybrid/multi-cloud and reducing their dependency on a single provider over the next 18 months, while 45% of organisations
said they will emphasise security, compliance, and sovereignty regulatory requirements.
The research surveyed 609 IT managers from large businesses (500+ employees) across six countries: France, Germany,
Italy, Spain, the UAE and the UK. It explores the priorities and challenges for IT managers as they navigate cloud complexity
and the opportunities and barriers, they face in executing AI strategies.

According to the report, 79% of UAE-based respondents consider cloud technology investment a priority for 2025. 16% are
planning a strong focus on innovation and new technologies, while 31% expect balanced growth between new technologies
and enhancements to existing systems. Of this subset of respondents, 72% plan to increase their investment in cloud
technologies by 21%-50%, while 15% will increase their investment by 51%-75%.
100% of UAE IT managers see advantages in adopting enterprise open source solutions for AI, including predictive and
generative. Accelerating innovation is seen as the top benefit of enterprise open source AI in the UAE (41%), with improved
ecosystem collaboration and integration coming in second place (50%).

Cloud is an investment priority
IT managers surveyed across the six countries describe their organisation’s planned approach to investing in cloud technology
by 2025:
● Half (50%) are taking a balanced approach, focusing equally on new technologies and enhancements to existing
systems
● 26% have a strong focus on innovation and new technologies
● 14% are focused on essential services only

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