Publicis Sapient outline the importance of designing smart ‘connected’ destinations

CNME Editor Mark Forker managed to secure an exclusive interview with Sooho Choi, Global Head of Travel & Hospitality at digital transformation consultancy, Publicis Sapient, to find out more about the concept of smart destinations, and the challenge facing city planners in terms of ensuring connected IoT devices that fuel futuristic cities are robust and secure.

“Digital must pass through every single vein of organisation’s anatomy” – Software AG CTO

CNME Editor Mark Forker conducted a wide-ranging interview with the charismatic Vijay Jaswal, CTO, Middle East & Turkey – Software AG, who explained why he believes businesses are struggling to adapt to the demands of cloud transformation, the processes required to ensure successful a digital transformation journey – and whether he feels it is the job of a CTO, or a CEO to shape the digital strategy for an organisation.

How COVID-19 Inspired a Reimagining of Enterprise Workflows

One aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the reimagining of workflow processes in an enterprise. While the pandemic has exacerbated the problem, it has also illuminated a way forward for organisations. The times have highlighted just how crucial it is to integrate people, data, and workflows into an automated digital process. And that refining and redefining agile enterprise workflows to ingest more dynamic, high-value data from industrial AI and machine learning models is the way forward for making faster, more adaptive business decisions.

DDoS Protection Major Concern for Middle East Service Providers

A return to pre-pandemic working practices is unlikely to happen. To learn more about the impact on networks and cyber security that COVID-19 has had on service providers, A10 Networks commissioned a survey and the results from the Middle East provide interesting insights. A large proportion of the senior IT professionals that we surveyed were adamant that the workplace won’t snap back to how it was before COVID-19, and that they expect and are preparing for a hybrid approach to working practices. The pandemic significantly raised awareness around the resiliency of the network and the robustness of security, and going forward, subscribers and enterprises expect much stronger security from their communications service providers and will demand more in their SLAs and expand to other types of service providers to get this commitment.

Dell Technologies executive highlights the need for a ‘culture of innovation’

CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Walid Yehia, Senior Director Pre-Sales for Infrastructure Solutions Group, MERAT, Dell Technologies, to find out more about their strategy for the diversification of their product portfolio, the challenges facing enterprises adopting cloud technologies– and how businesses need to create a culture of innovation to succeed in today’s digital economy.

Leading the Market in Innovation and Beyond: A New Way to Evaluate HCI Market Share

The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market has been on a fast journey over the past few years. Starting as a hardware-centric market focused on the simplicity of procuring data-centre hardware and software in one fell swoop, it quickly shifted as software-centric technology vendors and customers alike realised the biggest value一and innovation一was in the software. This is probably not surprising to those closely following the HCI market now but then it was a big change in the IT industry, as it evolved to embrace software-defined offerings.

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