DOHA: Microsoft cloud computing solutions can help government departments move their IT infrastructure toward the cloud on their own terms, a top executive of Microsoft Qatar said.
Mohammad Hammoudi, Country Manager of Microsoft Qatar, pointed this out during a recently held roundtable for CIOs from across government departments in Qatar to give them insights into the nature of cloud computing and offer them a perspective on the best approach toward moving government IT infrastructure into the Cloud.
At the roundtable, Microsoft talked about how it is well positioned to help government departments leverage the benefits of cloud computing due to its deep understanding of government business and an extensive solution portfolio.
Hammoudi said: "We strongly believe that the choice to move to the cloud is not an all-or-nothing proposition. All our solutions can work with each other in a hybrid model between on-premises and cloud. This allows for responsible, phased migration of the workloads to move from traditional on-premises to public cloud."
"Cloud Computing will transform the way we do business today thus our approach to the market needs to be altered accordingly," said Nabil Nuseibeh, GM Ebla which is a Microsoft partner.
"Government entities are going through the awareness phases now and it is our commitment to the market to increase their knowledge on this subject matter."
Nuseibeh said government departments will have to feel comfortable with this new transition just like any other previous experience they have encountered.
With government departments today looking for new ways to doing things to meet the challenges of a growing economy, shrinking resources and aspirations of its citizens, Hammoudi talked about how the emergence of cloud computing is opening up vast new opportunities for government institutions to generate new efficiencies in how they operate, build new engagements with the citizens they serve and use technology to tap the potential of all of their citizens and better compete in the global economy.
© The Peninsula 2011
