Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 04 | Page 4
CONTENTS
ISSUE 04
06 News
Latest regional news roundup from
across the Middle East
14
Latest Intelligence
Pure Storage discusses the operational
DBMS Market
16
Trending
IoT attacks and new evasion techniques
emerging threats
40 Country Focus
The recent shift in ICT investment
dynamics in Saudi Arabia
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Editor’s Question
What key areas should CIOs be
concentrating their budgets on for 2016?
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Enterprises are going ‘MAD’ for mobile
The lighter side of things, we ask the
industry-experts what makes them tick…
Meeting mobile application development:
Microservices, agile development and DevOps
EDITOR’S NOTE
Managing Partner
Richard Judd
richard@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+44 7534 132 966
Budget pick-in-mix
So much technology to consider and a
budget that won’t permit covering all
your bases - it is the constant frustration
of every CIO and 2016 will bring no
respite. Technologies are accelerating
at a pace that many enterprises are
finding hard to implement, maintain
and then update.
As well as the usual antidotes, trend
predictions and solutions for clearing
those technolgy road blocks, this month
we ask the industry-experts to map out
priority areas where CIOs should be
covering for 2016.
Among those areas where diligence
needs to be further exercised is with
BYOD; if you failed to properly navigate
this trend in 2015, best practice advice
is available inside on how best to
incorporate this mobility tool, while also
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keeping the network protected.
SD-WAN is fast emerging as a
game-changing technology at the
frontlines of the enterprises. For IT
and business leaders, SD-WAN offers
cost-effectiveness, agility, and levels of
automation that are essential when
accommodating dynamic business and
application requirements.
Lastly, Intelligent CIO will be introducing
a fast-paced events schedule for 2016
across the Gulf, with our Data Centres
roadshow reaching Riyadh, Doha and
Dubai in May, followed by the inaugural
Intelligent CIO Awards, which will also
be held in Dubai in May.
For more details on events, please see
our website and register online for our
weekly updates.
Managing Partner
Stuart Lynch
stuart@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+44 7514 807 117
Editorial Director
Michael Byrne
mike@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+44 78 894 40457
+971 55 593 5955
Advertising Manager
Alex Frith
alex@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+44 1277 216 962
Regional Sales Director
Ibrahim Parwaz
ibrahim@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+971 50 475 5131
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