CONTENTS
ISSUE 11
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News
Latest regional news roundup from across the Middle East
Latest Intelligence
‘ How to Evaluate All-Flash Storage’ presented by NetApp
Trending
Kodak Alaris targets gov. sector with electoral processing solutions
Country Focus
The UAE continues to break the boundaries with new implementations
Editor’ s Question
Security analytics – Does your security operations need it?
Get to Know...
The lighter side of things, we ask the industry-experts what makes them tick …
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BIg banks losing the faith?
DarkMatter examinescyber breaches across some of the financial industry’ s big hitters
EDITOR’ S NOTE
The time is near...
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After yet again a quiet and warm summer across the Gulf, the industry is gearing up for the onslaught of Q3 / Q4, which has its agenda firmly rooted on GITEX, being held in Dubai from October 16th-20th at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
With IT spending in the Middle East projected to reach $ 212.9 billion in 2016, a 3.7 % increase from 2015, GITEX Technology Week as largest regional IT exhibition will play a more significant role in 2016 than ever before.
As well as defining the latest trends, presenting high caliber speakers and showcasing product innovations from across the world, this year, GITEX is bringing together the most innovative, exciting and ambitious tech startups to showcase their world changing ideas to an audience of hand-picked international investors. Intelligent CIO will be present at the show to bring you all the news, and emerging trends from the show, so please do keep an eye on our twitter account for those timely updates.
For this month’ s Cover Story, Sohaib Mohamed Alabdi, Head of Information Networks Division, IT Centre, University of Bahrain, talks to Intelligent CIO about the university’ s digital transformation with the integration of a new secure campus-wide Wi-Fi.
Although there are more than a million cyber security positions available worldwide, the global shortage of skilled cyber security professionals is set to continue to grow at rapid pace in 2016, putting public and private sector organisations at risk- we look at the ins and outs.
Lastly, we also take a look at data centres- do you buy or build? Beware the“ invisible” costs of in-house data centres!
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