This recognition builds upon the HashiCorp Infrastructure Competency Cloud Kinetics obtained last year, further recognizing Cloud Kinetics’ ability to deliver and integrate HashiCorp products and solutions to protect and enhance the cloud environments of customers.

Security is not an afterthought, but a critical component woven into every facet of a robust cloud operation. The HashiCorp Security Competency underscores Cloud Kinetics’ continuous dedication to delivering innovative zero trust security solutions with full life-cycle security management, allowing customers to run mission-critical applications on the cloud with greater confidence.

“The HashiCorp Security Competency officially recognizes Cloud Kinetics’ ability to deliver and integrate HashiCorp products and solutions successfully into our joint customers initiatives and projects.” said Sean Bedford, Regional Director, Partner Solution Engineering, APJ, HashiCorp

“As a HashiCorp Specialized Systems Integrator Partner, we are delighted to achieve the HashiCorp Security Competency, a significant validation of our commitment to setting new benchmarks in zero trust security practices. We look forward to scaling our partnership with HashiCorp to help businesses integrate solutions like HashiCorp Vault and Terraform to mitigate risks and enhance compliance across cloud infrastructure amid an evolving threat landscape,” said JP McMullan, Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Kinetics.JP McMullan, Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Kinetics

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San Francisco, 27 October 2023 – Cloud Kinetics, a leading cloud transformation partner with strong & scalable operations in the Unites States, ANZ and Asia,  has been awarded the 2023 HashiCorp APJ Focus Partner of the Year award.

Cloud Kinetics was recognized for enabling organizations across industries to operate seamlessly by streamlining their cloud infrastructure provisioning, security and networking to achieve unprecedented agility and operational efficiency with HashiCorp’s advanced solutions.

As a HashiCorp Hyper-Specialized System Integrator Partner, Cloud Kinetics is one of the few partners in the region to hold Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP) certifications across HashiCorp’s core products: Terraform, Vault and Consul, with capabilities spanning Infrastructure-as-Code, Cloud Security and Service Networking.

The HashiCorp Partner of the Year awards honor exceptional partners within the HashiCorp Partner Network for their enduring commitment to building integrations for the HashiCorp suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products, which are used by enterprises around the globe. The 2023 HashiCorp Technology Partner Awards award was announced and presented at the HashiConf conference in San Francisco.

Thousands of companies use HashiCorp to provision, secure, connect, and run cloud infrastructure for their most important applications. Cloud Kinetics is a key ecosystem partner, and we are thrilled to recognize their contribution with the HashiCorp APJ Focus Partner of the Year. I am excited to continue our collaboration with Cloud Kinetics so that together, we can help our customers realize the full value of our combined solutions.Leon Jones, VP, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, HashiCorp

The HashiCorp Focus Partner of the Year award comes on the heels of Cloud Kinetics’ recent recognition as the first partner in the ASEAN, South Asia and Oceania regions to earn the HashiCorp Infrastructure Competency. Cloud Kinetics’ multi-cloud expertise and technical mastery of HashiCorp technologies have bolstered the infrastructure automation foundation of many organizations – a critical bedrock for modern enterprises seeking to scale and innovate.

We are thrilled to be named the HashiCorp APJ Focus Partner of the Year. This award is a great recognition of the work we are doing with HashiCorp to drive disruptive change for enterprises navigating the shifts in a multi-cloud world. We see our partnership as a critical force multiplier to address complex IT challenges and drive DevOps excellence for businesses of all sizes and industries, and look forward to more fruitful collaborations.Saleh M “Haji” Munshi, Group CEO, Cloud Kinetics

The recent wins mark a significant milestone in Cloud Kinetics’ growth trajectory and stand as notable additions to the company’s expanding portfolio of awards and competencies, including the AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year 2023, AWS DevOps Consulting Competency, as well as the IDG Channel Asia Cloud Innovation Partner award twice in a row. Building upon its achievements and customer success with multinational corporations, Cloud Kinetics will continue to help empower more small and medium-sized businesses and public sector organizations to harness automation as a strategic imperative to thrive in a digital-first era.

With a global presence in 8 countries, Cloud Kinetics is uniquely positioned to serve the dynamic needs of each local market. As part of its ongoing growth strategy, Cloud Kinetics will be making firmer strides in USA and Australia as well as expanding into Thailand in Asia to better empower enterprise clients in the regions to accelerate their digital transformation journey.

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Cloud for everyone! Cloud Kinetics brings the benefits of cloud to everyone regardless of the size of your IT footprint. Finally, here is a cost effective opportunity to move the VMware install base to the VMware cloud. If you are already a VMware user, this is the perfect opportunity to move your VMware workloads from on-prem to VMC, which is the new & novel VMware on AWS Cloud.

Cloud Kinetics provides Cloud to Business of all sizes in ASEAN. With the new Cloud Kinetics Cloud-for-Everyone Managed Services powered by VMware Cloud on AWS, business of all sizes can consume cloud as it makes sense to their business needs. From the smallest workloads to the largest enterprise platforms, Cloud Kinetics delivers a cloud service that aligns to your business.

We’re proud to be the first platform-ready AWS MSP in this region to offer VMC for enterprises. We can help companies achieve up to 40% return on IT investments and return on efficiency by helping them migrate their VMware workloads to VMC. Haji Munshi, CEO, Cloud Kinetics

Let Cloud Kinetics Help You Garner the Benefits of VMC

Partner with Cloud Kinetics for advantages ranging from increased innovation to enhanced availability:

Increase Innovation

• VMware workloads running on AWS have access to a broad and rich set of 200+ AWS services.
• These include compute, database, analytics, IoT, AI/ML, security, and more.
• Latency-sensitive apps hosted in VMware can directly access Aurora, Dynamo, or Redshift databases for petabyte-scale data analysis.
• Latency-sensitive apps hosted in VMware can get secure access to low-cost S3 buckets, objects, and API functions.

Simplify Ops

• Organizations can simplify their hybrid IT ops by using VMC foundation technologies.
• These include vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server across their on-premises data centre environments and the AWS Cloud.
• You can keep the same VMware provisioning, storage, and lifecycle policies you use today.
• This means you can quickly move apps between their on-premises environments and AWS without having to purchase any new hardware, rewrite applications, or modify your ops.

Reduce Costs

• VMC helps you optimize operating costs in a consistent and seamless hybrid IT environment.
• There is no custom hardware to deploy in your on-premises environment.
• You don’t need to modify applications to shift to a hybrid cloud model.
• These capabilities let you leverage all your existing investments to help save money.

Enhance Availability

• VMC helps you accelerate migration of VMware vSphere-based workloads to the highly available and scalable AWS Cloud.
• The service enables VMware-based workloads to run directly on the next-gen Nitro system-based Amazon EC2 bare metal infra.
• These can be provisioned in a single-tenant, isolated Amazon VPC.
• Take advantage of the scalability, availability, security, and global reach of the AWS Cloud.

Accelerate Cloud Migration

• Simplify and accelerate the migration of mission-critical production workloads to the AWS Cloud.
• You can do this at scale without having to convert or re-architect workloads.
• VMC enables seamless bi-directional application migration with consistent policies.
• It uses VMware vSphere vMotion between your on-premises data centre and the AWS Cloud.

Deliver DRaaS

• VMC enables you to simplify, accelerate, and modernize your existing disaster recovery solutions.
• Enhance existing VMware-based DR solutions with AWS Cloud-based DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) capabilities.
• Combine proven VMware DR technologies such as VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vSphere
• Replication with scalability, availability, speed, and cost benefits of the AWS Cloud.
• DRaaS will help you reduce costs, simplify ops, and enhance disaster recovery and testing.

Extend Your Data Centre

• Leverage the massive scalability and global presence of the AWS Cloud.
• Rapidly, seamlessly, and cost-effectively meet your DC capacity and regional footprint needs.
• Leverage AWS Direct Connect private network connectivity to extend your DC workloads.
• Use the massive capacity of the AWS Cloud to meet any expansion needs of the business.

Modernize Your Apps

• Leverage AWS services for integrated application modernization like Amazon S3.
• Ideal for organizations looking to build new/next-gen applications.
• You can use VMware’s management and policy tools across on-premises and VMC.
• Enjoy a unified and operationally consistent experience.

Why choose Cloud Kinetics to move VMware Cloud on AWS?

Cloud Kinetics offers large enterprises a unique combination of competencies to reduce complexity, control costs, increase agility and connect data silos on the AWS cloud.

Whether you need a Single-Tenancy or Multi-Tenancy, Cloud Kinetics can consult and/or implement it for you.

What Cloud Kinetics brings you

• Validate VMware workloads on VMC on AWS.
• Get a monthly TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) forecast.
• Ensure clear and transparent billing every month.
• Validate FSx/S3 integrations on VMC on AWS.
• You don’t need to pay for ESXi Nodes.
• Pay for only what you use, whether for a single or multi-tenancy environment.
• Get SDDC (Software-Defined Data Centre) and VMware CDS (Cloud Director Service) on tap.

Cloud Kinetics brings VMC on AWS Single-Tenancy

• If you are a large enterprise and have a large on-premise footprint.
• If you run specialized and high-compliance VMware workloads.
• If you have specialized vROps (vRealize Operations) in a hybrid environment.
• CK’s expertise to “lift-&-shift” to AWS in a dedicated VMware environment.
• Get a super cost-effective migration path.
• Optimize TCO (total cost of ownership) vis-a-vis DC (data center) costs.

Cloud Kinetics brings VMC on AWS Multi-Tenancy

• If you are an SME (small and medium enterprise) and have a small on-premise footprint.
• There is no or minimum VMware workload or VMware vROps required to move to the cloud.
• Leverage the benefits of large enterprises by moving to a VMC environment.
• Get a super cost-effective migration path.
• Use Cloud Kinetics’ professional and reliable managed services expertise.

VMware Cloud on Intel® Architecture

• VMware and Intel keep IT front-and-center in the quest for rapid digital business transformation, by providing IT organizations a clear path to digital transformation with consistent infrastructure and operations.
• Intel and VMware’s integrated technologies deliver chip-to-cloud PC management and security capabilities to support today’s anywhere workforce.
• VMware Cloud on AWS lets you choose from a wide variety of compute, memory, and storage options to “right size” your cloud instances to your particular workload.
• The AWS EC2 i3.en instance featuring the 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors deliver 4x the raw storage capacity at roughly half the cost per GB of storage per host compared to previous offerings, making them ideal for disaster recovery and other storage-demanding use cases.
• The AWS EC2 i3.en instance runs with more compute cores and more memory, allowing you to host larger and more powerful VMs.
• Selecting AWS EC2 i3.en instances allows you to add more vCPUs to achieve greater overall database performance per instance, benefit from more processing power that can handle more orders per minute.
• VMware also has gen-to-gen compatibility with Intel processors – meaning it can run on older Intel processors up through the modern Intel Xeon Scalable processors to combine both performance benefits and cost savings – whether it is on-prem or in the cloud.
• The combination of VMware Cloud Foundation and Intel Xeon processors lets organizations take advantage of familiar features such as vSphere vMotion for live migrations of VMs from on-prem to cloud.
• In partnership with leading Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, these solutions make moving to a hybrid public cloud environment simpler to manage and more predictable while enabling the latest technology innovations.

Cloud Kinetics for VMware & AWS: Competencies

AWS and VMware certifications

• Cloud Kinetics has garnered 166 AWS and VMware certifications, including:
• VMware MSP (Managed Services Partner).
• VMware Cloud on AWS Master Services Competency Partner.
• VMware PSO (Professional Services Offerings) Partner.
• AWS MSP (Managed Services Partner) and First in SEA on Ver 4.2-2001.
• AWS VMC Captivate 2022 Program.
• AWS Launch Partner for VMware CDS (Cloud Director Service).
• AWS Featured Expert Delivery Partner.
• AWS Migration Consulting Competency Partner.
• AWS Storage Consulting Competency Partner.
• AWS EC2 for Windows Server Delivery Partner.

Why VMware and AWS?

Why VMware

• You can build new cloud-native apps and modernize existing apps.
• You can run your infrastructure across any cloud.
• Leverage the innovation and freedom of every cloud with the simplicity of one.
• Accelerate current application ops with network and security virtualization.
• Use it for WAN (Wide Area Networks) on data centres.
• You have reliable cloud-intrinsic security at every layer.
• You can deliver any app, on any cloud, anywhere.
• Deliver apps from the core to the edge and cloud in a hybrid environment.
• You have proven vSphere capabilities in your AWS cloud environment.
• Extend your on-premises security, governance and operational policies.
• Modernize vSphere workloads with Tanzu services.
• Tanzu is a portfolio of managed Kubernetes services.
• Extend the value of enterprise apps with 200+ AWS services.
• You can access the services over a high bandwidth, low latency network.
• Deploy existing or new applications in 18 global AWS regions.
• Each with multiple levels of redundancy to minimize downtime.
• Your data, apps and workloads will be protected during an infra outage.

Why AWS

• You can extend your on-prem vSphere environments.
• Use VMware SDDN (Software-Defined Data Center) running on Amazon EC2.
• Enable your IT teams to seamlessly migrate and run vSphere workloads.
• Modernize them with fully managed Tanzu services and native AWS services.
• Reduce the time, cost and risk of migrating vSphere workloads to the cloud.
• Use vMotion and HCX for seamless migration on public or hybrid clouds.
• Migrate individual apps or entire DCs without conversions or downtime.
• VMware Cloud on AWS won CRN’s 2020 Products of The Year for Hybrid Cloud – Customer Demand subcategory.

ALSO SEE: Cloud Kinetics Enables Customers to Move to the Cloud While Maximizing Their On-Premises Investment

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Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform. It enables the operation of a flexible web server framework for cloud applications. It also automates many manual processes involved in deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications.

Kubernetes allows organizations to orchestrate containers. Either you can set up core on-prem Kubernetes for your workloads, or you can use the managed Kubernetes engines from major cloud vendors. You can also deploy your workloads on a hybrid Kubernetes model by extending on-prem to cloud and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments.

Professional Kubernetes Services

Kubernetes drives the container orchestration and management of micro-services. Cloud Kinetics helps enterprises to modernize their legacy apps and build cloud-native and serverless applications by automating deployments using CI/CD and security configurations.

• Application Modernization
• Cloud-Native Solutions
• DevSecOps
• Cloud-Native and Microservices Applications

Professional Services Offerings

• Consult & Assess
• Architect & Design
• Implement & Migrate

Managed Services Offerings

• Maintenance & Support
• Platform Support
• Cluster Management
• Capacity Management
• Security & Monitoring

Customized Training

Cloud Kinetics Learning (CKL) offers lab activities for Kubernetes and contextualizes them for your organization’s environment. We recreate your environment and mirror your implementation as close as possible in the lab. CKL also offers customized tech training for your staff to appreciate Kubernetes insights. Customized or standard courses are delivered via virtual or on-prem or stand-alone lab activities.

Plug and Play Offerings

Most enterprises seek to leverage their public cloud capabilities. In this journey, they need to make several decisions. For example, they must decide whether a public or a private cloud is ideal for them. And which cloud services and technologies they should deploy. And how to extend their workloads from on-prem model to specific clouds or multiple clouds.

With Cloud Kinetics’ hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes solution, we help customers to adopt the right hybrid or multi-cloud strategy aligned with their business needs.

Why Kubernetes

It is an open-source solution that

• Allows to orchestrate containers.
• Makes it easy to manage application deployments and updates.
• Automates application deployments.
• Manages workloads on the fly by auto-scaling containerized applications.
• Make efficient use of resources needed to run enterprise applications.
• Brings in DevOps efficiency.
• Makes monitoring, health-check, and managing more straightforward.
• Helps mount and add storage to run stateful apps.
• Offers hybrid and multi-cloud flexibility.
• Self-heals your application with replica sets, auto-placement, auto-restart, auto replication, and autoscaling.

Why work with Cloud Kinetics

Cloud Kinetics is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) offering Kubernetes support, consulting, professional services and training for organizations embarking on their Kubernetes journey. We will work with you to determine your key needs and help you with:

• Overall architectural objectives and approach
• Kubernetes setup, provisioning and planning
• Security requirements considerations
• Software delivery pipeline design
• Implementation process analysis & planning
• Supporting tooling review

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However, the success of cloud adoption depends heavily on whether the cloud deployment model is right for the business, as it will dictate how the business stores and interacts with their data and applications. There are typically three types of available cloud models: public, private or hybrid.

Public cloud

A public cloud environment is built on IT infrastructure services belonging to cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. Users access the data in the cloud via the public Internet, which means that multiple ‘tenants’ can be using the cloud at the same time.

Besides the base fee, public cloud providers (PCPs) offer modular features such as application modernization or cloud storage on a pay-per-use system, allowing businesses to scale their use and costs as necessary. But as the PCPs control the features and service parameters, businesses may have a lesser degree of control and customization.

This cloud model may be best suited for cloud-native startups who need to scale quickly yet have limited resources and expertise.

Private cloud

A private cloud is exclusively used by a single business. The cloud is established within the business’s own data centre and can only be accessed through their intranet or virtual private network (VPN). This provides users with more complete control, visibility and customization ability, as well as enhanced security.

As cloud management and maintenance becomes the sole responsibility of the business, this requires higher upkeep costs and resource usage. This can be mitigated by offloading day-to-day monitoring and upkeep to experienced managed service providers (MSPs), which ensures that the cloud is well-managed and optimized while enabling in-house IT teams to prioritize other critical tasks.

Larger enterprises and institutions that require a secured environment that meets regulatory standards – such as banks – may prefer this cloud model.

Hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud is a single, consolidated IT environment that incorporates services from public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises infrastructure, which are connected via local area networks (LANs) or VPNs. This may involve merging at least one private cloud and one public cloud, or even merging two or more public clouds.

The flexible nature of the hybrid model allows businesses to move workloads between clouds more easily and have more control over their data. Unsurprisingly, it is popular among enterprises and may be best suited for those digitally transitioning from pure on-premises solutions, but there are many variants of hybrid deployments to choose from.

Key decision-making factors

Cost can vary significantly by cloud model, which is why businesses must ensure that their chosen cloud aligns with their budget. Public clouds have subscription and hosting fees, private clouds incur maintenance and upkeep costs, and hybrid clouds have a combination of the two. But these costs can also minimize costs incurred elsewhere, so businesses must evaluate accordingly.

Data security and compliance needs are also important considerations. The private cloud model offers the best control and visibility but requires the right experts to oversee. Public clouds are compliance-certified but can be accessed by multiple users. Some businesses may also need to take local data regulations into account, especially those with multinational operations, when choosing a cloud.

Choosing the right cloud with the help of MSPs

Choosing the right cloud for your business can be a daunting decision because it is a significant commitment and can have a large impact. An experienced managed service provider (MSP) with the right industry partnerships and expertise can bridge this gap and help you make the cloud transition seamlessly.

At Cloud Kinetics, we can provide cloud assessment and consultation services to ensure that all your business needs are met with the most suitable cloud model for you. Once you’ve made a decision; we can even oversee the seamless cloud migration and integration of your systems to and with the cloud, as well as undertaking other cloud-managed services based on your requirements. Speak to us today.

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Effective enterprise operations can help organizations increase IT efficiency, reliability and improve customer experience. We partner with the best Enterprise Applications Platforms so that you can focus on your business priorities.

• Google Workspaces

Today’s new normal demands quality collaboration and productivity tools so that your team can work efficiently. Google Workspace gives you everything that you need to get anything done, in one place.

• ServiceNow

Modernize your operations to optimize productivity, cost, and resilience with a single platform for IT. ServiceNow allows your team to deliver services to internal and external customers, without compromising on the quality and speed of those services

• Freshworks

Reshape customer experiences with Freshworks. Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life.

• Salesforce

Bring your customers closer to your company with Salesforce. Salesforce helps you keep track of everything about your customers and potential customers so you can build great relationships with them.

• Druva

Druva data protection across data centers, cloud applications, and endpoints. With Druva, you will be able to enforce data governance and extract more intelligence to unlock the full value of your data.

• Veeam

If you are looking for a Single Backup and Data Management Platform for Cloud, then look no further than Veeam. Veeam presents a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data.

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Optimize your cloud infrastructure assets

ARCUS is a vertical-agnostic platform that presents a rich set of capabilities for automation, operation monitoring and management of your cloud assets.

Best-in-class features to operate, monitor, manage

• Dynamic & Customizable Dashboards
• Multi-Cloud Monitoring & Alerting
• Open API Integration
• Resource Provisioning
• Catalog – IAC-based Provisioning
• Cloud Activity Scheduling
• Automated Spend Forecast
• Advanced Cost Analytics
• Service Request Integration

Easy deployment

• Launch servers from catalogue or image
• Create backups
• Create and attach disk storage
• Configure network security elements, load balancer and static external IP
• Create KeyPair for secure access to servers

Efficient management

• Multi-User and Multi-Cloud Account
• Automated Spend Forecast using AWS Forecast
• Custom monitoring app and database server parameters
• Cloud activity trail
• Group cloud resources as stacks

Effective optimization

• Advanced Cost Analytics
• Budget tracking and spend alerts
• Spend analysis on tagged resources
• Ad-hoc drill-down reports with filters
• Export custom reports

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The report revealed that although each of these six markets are at different stages in the evolution of their use of the public cloud, they will experience a positive economic impact as businesses explore new revenue streams and improve productivity by operating applications over the public cloud. Public cloud adoption is expected to contribute about $450 Bn of GDP across these APAC markets between 2019 and 2023. It has the potential to create around 425,000 jobs and influence about 1.2 million additional jobs in key industries that drive the economy.

Singapore cloud market: A view

Compared to other countries in the region, Singapore is one of the most advanced public cloud markets. Investment into public cloud is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20% over the next five years, from US$1.5 billion in 2018 to about US$3.6 billion in 2023. This will account for 0.4% of the GDP and is one of the largest public-cloud-spending-to-GDP ratios of all six markets.

The growth in Singapore cloud market is propelled by Government initiatives and an active policy to promote use of public cloud for its systems. Industry sectors aggressively embracing cloud include Financial services, retailers, media companies and public sector.

Most large enterprises in Singapore cloud market are already using some form of cloud storage and are beginning to consider advanced use cases like AI and Machine Learning. Currently the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model has the largest share of the cloud market. However, with increasing interest in advanced applications, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model is emerging as the fastest growing segment, expected to grow by 25% between now and 2023.

Industry adoption

Digital Native Businesses (DNBs) are heavily reliant on having a scalable and reliable technology infrastructure and most of them are born-in-cloud companies, making them the largest users of public cloud in the market. Public cloud has allowed these DNBs to operate in an agile fashion because of the comparatively low upfront costs and the infrastructure capability provided by the cloud service providers.

There is a considerable push for the government sector to adopt public cloud-enabled technologies in order to redesign the way the government operates. To drive the digital transformation and build the public sector’s long-term capabilities, the Singapore government created two new agencies namely Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO). They also introduced a platform that enables government agencies to build and test new applications with shared software and infrastructure services. Also, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) helps users clarify the security responsibilities of cloud service providers and sets standards for accountability and transparency.

Why public cloud?

Users of Public Cloud in Singapore have cited the following as the key advantages:

Higher team productivity

Collaborative tools such as document sharing apps, communication apps etc. are fostering greater team efficiency and allowing them to accomplish tasks effectively.

Faster time to market

Public cloud generally has lower launch costs and faster deployments when compared to on-premise architecture. This shortens the time to market considerably.

Data analytics

Advanced data analysis is key when designing new products and services for a targeted customer base in industries such as e-commerce, ride-sharing, and media content. Companies are using public cloud for running data analysis in real time allowing them to drive engagement as well as advertising revenues.

Flexibility and scalability

One of the main advantages of public cloud is the flexible scaling. As more and more companies use advanced technologies like AI and ML, the scalability and flexibility of cloud infrastructure becomes very relevant.

Challenges faced by cloud users

Despite all the benefits of using public cloud, there are a few challenges faced by the users:

Legacy migration costs and risks

For large enterprises, the risks involved in migrating their existing databases and legacy applications to cloud poses a key challenge.

Complexity of managing a multi-cloud environment

Companies having a wide range of applications deployed on cloud prefer to use the expertise of a variety of cloud providers rather than be locked in with one vendor. In such cases, managing the multi-cloud environment can be challenging. Companies are using third party Cloud Management Platform (CMPs) to manage this situation.

Resource limitations

Singapore is facing a shortage of public-cloud trained IT professionals to manage the cloud environments. Vendors are providing advanced trainings and hands-on sessions to allow teams to develop internal capabilities to understand the day-to-day aspects of running applications on the public cloud. Using a Certified Managed Services Provider like Cloud Kinetics is also a way to ease this challenge.

Impact of cloud on Singapore’s economy

The overall cumulative impact from direct, indirect and induced sources between 2019 and 2023 is expected to be US$31 billion. Increased usage of public cloud will possibly create 22,000 direct jobs over the next five years. About 65% of these jobs will be in non-digital roles like sales, marketing, HR, finance etc. It is also expected to have an impact on another 21,000 indirect and induced jobs. A large proportion of these jobs will potentially be taken up by the existing workforce after their retraining and upskilling.

As a regional digital hub, Singapore has an important role to play in developing frameworks around cross-border data sharing, thereby influencing the further development of regional standards on public cloud utilization of cloud.

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