Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 07 | Page 4
CONTENTS
ISSUE 07
06 News
Latest regional news roundup from
across the Middle East
Latest Intelligence
14
Axios Systems presents this whitepaper
on Service Catelog
16
Trending
CIOs express concerns about long-term
viability of infrastructure and skills
50
Country Focus
On-set of Oman’s drive for nextgeneration networking
82
Editor’s Question
To what extent are regional CIOs
investing in SDN to restructure networks?
87
88
Get to Know...
Reducing privileged access
The lighter side of things, we ask the
industry-experts what makes them tick…
Reporting and analysing the current privileged access can
be a bit harder as there is no centralised location
EDITOR’S NOTE
Managing Partner
Richard Judd
richard@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+44 7534 132 966
Celebrating excellence...
The time is finally here...the inaugural Intelligent
CIO Technology Excellence Awards are almost
upon us. Spanning across 22 categories, the
Intelligent CIO Technology Excellence Awards
will recognise outstanding accomplishment
across the Middle East’s enterprise IT domain,
celebrating not only vendors, but also service
providers and end users.
Taking place in Dubai on May 11th, these
awards are the pivotal platform for both you
and your company to gather with industryleading peers and celebrate the ICT landscape.
Not only will these awards help reinforce
recognition, but will offer an ideal opportunity
to network and gain increased visibility, with
both fellow professionals and clients.
However, before we skip straight to the
Awards, we do have the Intelligent Data
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Centre events roadshow across the Gulf in the
coming days - Riyadh will be the first port-ofcall on May 8th, Doha on May 9th and lastly,
Dubai on May 11th.
The data centre industry in the Middle East is
growing at pace, increasing demand for space,
power, investment and a skilled workforce. The
explosion in big data means companies need
to be able to scale-up quickly or get a new data
centre up and running at very short notice –
how well does your organisation cope?
Intelligent Data Centres is designed to help
guide CIOs through the complexities of their
organisation’s data centre strategy in these
rapidly changing times.
All the information on these roadshows
and how to attend can be found at: http://
intelligentdatacentres.com/
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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