BIOS Middle East Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Second Year in a Row

DUBAI, UAE, August 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

BIOS Middle East, the Middle East's largest cloud provider with its in region cloud, CloudHPT is pleased to announce, that it has been named by Gartner Inc. in the 2018 "Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service" for the second year in a row.

BIOS Middle East, which leverages its in-region cloud, CloudHPT, to deliver its Assured Recovery Services was just one of 10 vendors globally (reduced from 23 in 2017) included in this year's list and was once again the only company from the Middle East.

In the Magic Quadrant for this market sector, Gartner analysts evaluated 10 service providers that offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.

In the report, Gartner estimates DRaaS to currently be a $2.40 billion worldwide business that is expected to reach $3.73 billion by 2021. The report recommends, "Infrastructure and operations leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to help evaluate providers of DRaaS."

Gartner noted that our Assured Recovery Service was one of the only managed service offerings that could meet the needs of clients who needed in-country DRaaS for the UAE and KSA with the options for out of region DRaaS leveraging Azure and AWS.

A second important point Gartner raised was "The vendor has a strong focus on Disaster avoidance through proactive security information and event management SIEM) capabilities".

Rudi Feitsma, Director at BIOS says "Our approach to DRaaS is to dramatically/significantly reduce the chances of an IT disaster due to technical issues and to be able to recover IT services in the event of any such incident with a three-fold approach;

• Remote monitoring and management of networks and workloads to reduce the possibility of a disaster by leveraging our BIOS Assured Service to keep workloads healthy and to know the instant they are not allowing us to proactively address potential issues.
• To secure these workloads via BIOS Secured, our expansive Security Incident and Event Monitoring (SIEM) solution, continuous vulnerability scanning and our SOC Services to avoid disasters caused by ever increasing security threats and incidents.
• To provide the customer with a blended SLA using industry-leading/ the best technologies for service replication and recovery which we monitor 24x7 via our in-house NOC and regular testing.

We are delighted/happy that this approach has once again been noticed and appreciated by Gartner"

About BIOS Middle East  

BIOS is an award-winning Managed Service & Cloud Provider established for more than 16 years in the UAE and committed to helping organizations become more efficient and cloud enabled through in-country and global cloud networks and platforms. We provide over 400 customers with over 10,000 servers the capability they need to achieve successful transformation, through industry leading, end-to-end managed networks and security and platform solutions.

CloudHPT is the cloud division of BIOS. It is the Middle East's first and Only Cisco Powered Cloud. The solutions are built on High Performance Technology (hence HPT) and housed in the UAE's best datacenters.

The keys services provided include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Backup as a service (BaaS) & Managed Security Services (BIOS Assist, Assured & Secured).

BIOS is also a Microsoft Azure partner and the first company globally to order Azure Stack with Cisco. In 2017 BIOS's cloud platform CloudHPT was listed in Gartner's DRaaS Magic quadrant.

We are vendor, platform and technology agnostic (we are a fully certified and accredited partner with all the major players), ensuring that the solutions we provide are tailored to suit your exact business requirements.

For more information, please visit http://www.biosme.com & http://www.cloudhpt.com

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