Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle East and SAARC, Veeam Software, explains why data centre availability is here to stay.
Eyeing top spot
Oracle is targeting the cloud market with a wide array of services, including Big Data and the IoT. Bob Evans, Senior VP and Chief Communications Officer, Oracle, talks about the company’s cloud game plan.
The idea economy: Is your industry ripe for disruption?
Alaa Alshimy, VP, Enterprise Group and Managing Director for HP Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa (MEMA), shares insight on the potential of a hyper-connected world ahead of GITEX 2015.
In the crosshairs
Attackers have long targeted application vulnerabilities in order to breach systems and steal data. Recently they’ve been skipping a step and going directly after the tools developers use to actually build those applications.
Mining the gold in the IoT
Jamie Longmuir, Regional Director, Software Monetisation, Gemalto, gives insight on how businesses can take advantage on the wealth of opportunities brought by IoT.
A fine line
Ondrej Krehel, Founder, CTO and Darin Andersen, Founder, CEO, Cyberunited Lifars, speaks about white hat hackers and very fine ethical line they may or may not cross.
Security of things
Philippe Roggeband, Business Development Manager, Cisco Security Architecture, explains in-depth how organisations can tackle the challenges around Internet of Things (IoT).
An open mind
David Postel, Partner and Alliances Leader, Red Hat MEA, discusses key aspects to building an open source technology practice in the region.
Big Data fades to the algorithm economy
The next digital gold rush will be focused on how you do something with data, not just what you do with it. This is the promise of the algorithm economy.
Open for business
IT is heading towards being something more akin to a utility service, transformed by OpenStack’s open standardised cloud architecture, which will improve interoperability and render vendor lock-in a thing of the past.
Redefining WAN with broadband
Mike Hemes, Vice President EMEA, Silver Peak, shares insight on how enterprises can fully embrace the new world of cloud and SaaS applications, with a redefined WAN model.
Second wave of telco transformation
Sony John, Programme Manager for Telecoms and Media, IDC, discusses the diversification and transformation of the region’s telco market.
The middle men
Network visibility and security firm Gigamon’s platform is an analytical intermediary to security hardware. We spoke to the company’s EMEA Vice President Andy Zollo about how the company is leveraging its partner relationships to drive local performance.
Bridging the gap
Over the last four years the Gulf region has stayed on the forefront of this technological transformation. Today many consumers are enjoying 4G mobile services delivered up to 10 times faster than their earlier predecessors.