The document discusses the challenges and options for cloud computing adoption in Pakistan, highlighting the industry's reluctance due to various concerns such as data regulations, infrastructure issues, and cultural inertia. It outlines available cloud services and emphasizes the need for genuine cloud solutions over simple virtualization. Additionally, it identifies key success factors for effective cloud implementation within the local context.

1. Cloud Computing Options
IN PAKISTAN

2. Agenda
 How has Pakistani Industry responded to Cloud Computing Wave?
 Why is the industry in Pakistan a bit Cloud shy?
 What are Cloud Computing options available to PK Industry?
 What are the success factors in Cloud Computing adoption?
 Cloud Computing Industry Players

3. How has Pakistani Industry responded to
Cloud Computing Wave?
 With Reluctance (due to many factors) – ‫ہللا‬ ‫انشاء‬ ،‫ہاں‬
 With a wish that cloud-computing wave will subsidize - ‫کہاں‬ ‫کالئوڈ‬ ‫میں‬ ‫پاکستان‬ ‫بھائ‬
‫گا‬ ‫چلے‬
 With absurd concerns – ‫گے‬ ‫لیں‬ ‫دیکھ‬ ‫وہ‬ ‫کو‬ ‫ڈیٹا‬ ‫میرے‬
 With unbelief – ‫ہم؟‬ ‫گے‬ ‫دیں‬ ‫پیسے‬ ‫مہینے‬ ‫ہر‬ ‫کیا‬ ‫اب‬
 With a financial dread – ‫ہونگے‬ ‫چاہئے‬ ‫الئیسنس‬ ‫اوریجنل‬ ‫وہاں‬ ‫بھائ‬

4. Why is the industry in Pakistan a bit Cloud
shy?
 Genuine Business Needs to remain on-prem
 Data Geo-location Regulations
 Latency Issues with CSPs
 Recent investments in on-prem
 Cultural Inertia
 Old aged IT leaders feel a sense of loss of control and stick to on-prem
 A new way of doing business is in conflict with resources already hired
 Change Resistance
 New learning requirements
 New very structured players (CSPs) to deal with

5. Why is the industry in Pakistan a bit Cloud
shy? (cont’d)
 Fragile Infrastructure of local options
 Perineal Access and downtime issues at PTCL
 Fire incidents at Rapid Compute
 Power Outages in Multinet data centers
 Foreign Exchange Payment Hassles
 Lack of Corporate Credit Cards (aversion to use personal cards for corporate use)
 MRC Aversion
 The concept of paying someone month-in, month-out (MRC) is currently very wild for an industry
that hooked on piracy and refurbished server hardware
 Capital Expenditure Mindset
 In some, if not all cases, there are vested financial interests in going for a Capex model instead of
an MRC model

6. What are Cloud Computing options
available to PK Industry?
 Local Virtualization – VMWare / Openstack
 Local Cloud Operators (with some real or pseudo-orchestration facilities) – Don’t
fall for co-location providers posing as cloud computing providers
 Tier 1 Cloud Service Providers – AWS, Azure, GCP, OCP, Alibaba Cloud and IBM
with local enabling advisors / managed services providers
 Tier 2 Cloud Service Providers – Global companies such as Rackspace, Linode,
Upcloud etc

7. What are the success factors in Cloud
Computing adoption?
 Go for real cloud computing that is fast, agile and self-controlled
 Don’t fall for glamorized virtualization being sold as cloud computing by the local
service providers
 Start your team’s cloud capacity building today – start with smaller experiments,
test deployments and move to lift-and-shift
 Hunt for the disruptive partnering services that understand the cloud computing
wave well and can help corporates ‘go cloud’
 NxN Pakistan (Pakistan)
 NorthBay (US)
 VaporVM (Middle East)

8. Cloud Computing Industry Players
Old School
 Rapid Compute
 Multinet
 Local Co-location Operators posing as
Cloud Operators
 PTCL Data Centers
 Nayatel
 PTCL
 CubeXS Weatherly
 Brainnet
New School
• NxN Pakistan
• NorthBay
• VaporVM