For NetApp, this moment represents the culmination of years of hard work and continuous innovation bringing ONTAP to the cloud. Long trusted in the data center, we’re now the first and only storage environment that is truly enabled for hybrid cloud and natively integrated into each of the major public cloud providers.

“As GCC institutions look to work with secure and trusted technology providers, this validation highlights the unique benefits of our services for customers, providing them with secure managed cloud services,” said Adam Wolf, Director, BIOS.

“This Magic Quadrant offers a view of providers more narrowly focused on public cloud transformation,” according to Gartner. This study looked at 16 cloud-native solution providers who offer managed and professional services for public cloud.

Microsoft Azure is rapidly picking up broader awareness from businesses, large and small, who are increasingly trusting the services to enhance their capabilities from the more than 60+ Azure regions, including the UAE cloud regions, these cloud services provide the opportunity to provide real-time insights that advance customer service and deliver a more refined consumer-focused business offering through enterprise-scale analytics.

Recent research from Gartner indicates that almost 70 percent of organizations using cloud services today plan to increase their cloud spend in the wake of the disruption caused by COVID-19.