IBM’s Middle East and Africa vice president of cloud, Maged Wassim, explores how blockchain could transform the financial industry.
6 steps to achieve an as-a-Service transformation
The ‘as-a-service’ model promises to reshape business service delivery to provide companies with plug-in, scalable, consumption-based services, but the opportunities are vastly untapped.
Allied forces
In most companies, individual departments or teams believe they hold the key to understanding customer needs more than other areas of the business. The reality is that different departments simply have a different view into customer expectations and none has an all-encompassing view.
The future of elder care
While not a panacea, new Smart Home technologies promise to enable the elderly population to function freely and safely in their homes.
How to perform a risk assessment
Defending risks without knowing what those risks are is like playing a round of paintball with your eyes closed — you’ll keep missing your opponent. A risk assessment gives the enterprise a specific, more finely narrowed field of targets for which to aim.
Digitally driven
On his most recent visit to Dubai, Rick Costanzo, President and General Manager, Information Management, Kodak Alaris, sat down with CNME to discuss the challenges in the era of digital transformation and three key factors that can enable enterprises unlock the value of going digital.
Ransomware: The great white shark of malware
Right now, ransomware is the great white shark of cyber-attacks, the most feared malware of all, and both corporate and home users are running scared.
Building the next Smart City
With Dubai Expo 2020 also on the horizon, the government is solidly behind smart development initiatives. As the UAE ushers in this new era of advancement, much has been predicted and promised about the integration of ICT into every aspect of completed city developments.
Preventing DNS-based data exfiltration
Most enterprises have multiple defense mechanisms and security technologies in place, yet somehow malicious actors find a way to appropriate data.
Blueprint for IoT
Companies are excited by the opportunities around the Internet of Things (IoT), but CIOs are realising IoT is not a one size fits all solution. We give you five architectural components to better implement Internet of Things capabilities.
The need for speed
Adrian Pickering, Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Juniper Networks, describes how businesses can be empowered by network innovations to compete in the fast-moving digital economy.
What’s in store
EMC’s Stephen Manley, CTO of the company’s Core Technologies Division, discussed some of the challenges of shifting away from tape storage at EMC World.
Technology for good
ICT offers an incredible platform for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Having already reached an estimated 20 million people with initiatives such as Connect to Learn, Reunite and Ericsson Response, Ericsson does not plan to slow down any time soon.
Big Data’s huge role
Focusing just on the ‘Big’ could diminish competitive advantage and only yield minimal benefits for Middle East organisations, Lee Miles writes.