Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 09 | Page 41

FEATURE: IoT CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE - BEYOND THE MYTH Tell an organisation that they would be better served by consolidating their entire IT estate to a single vendor’s solution and you are likely to see some understandable trepidation. A single point of failure, a single source of innovation, a unified point of vulnerability, and a feeling that the organisation may be tied down to one supplier for future maintenance and upgrades. What is the upside? Said Akar, Regional Director, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Middle East – VCE, the converged platforms division of EMC, takes us through it all. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 43