Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 06 | Page 4
CONTENTS
ISSUE 06
06 News
Latest regional news roundup from
across the Middle East
Latest Intelligence
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Entrust Datacard presents ‘The
Business Value of Extended Validation’
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Trending
Worldwide IT spending forecast to
decline 0.5% in 2016, says Gartner
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Country Focus
Satellite networking in Qatar and
Ooredoo’s vision for the Gulf state
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Editor’s Question
How is the onset of IoT affecting how
CIOs approach network security?
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Get to Know...
‘Availability’ central for next-gen. talent
The lighter side of things, we ask the
industry-experts what makes them tick…
The millennial workforce is entering the workplace with a
more comprehensive grasp of digital tools than any other.
EDITOR’S NOTE
Managing Partner
Richard Judd
richard@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+44 7534 132 966
A sign of things to come?
“Ive been hearing that we’re not the
sexy-side of the exhibition,” said one
sales representative at his respective
stand. This single line summed up the
fast-paced two-day Data Centre World
exhibition in London in April.
He was right! Most of the noise and foot
traffic was stirring around the ‘Cloud’
end of the exhibition hall - all things IoT
is now dominating the conversation.
However, there will always be the need
for physical data centre infrastructure,
especially from the governmental
entities across the Middle East, at least
in the foreseeable future.
What has been apparent, especially
since 2015, is that the move to cloud
and digital services is placing greater
demands on companies and their
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resources.Throw big data into the
world of virtual data centres and cloud
and there is even more potential to
integrate with the live running of
data centre infrastructure, through
soft programmable components such
as SDN controller nodes as well as
API-enabled hardware and virtualised
appliances. We are witnessing a
tectonic shift!
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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