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East. Cloud platforms have been a boon for the

IT organisation and CIOs, allowing enterprises to reduce IT complexity, reduce IT resources and allow business workloads to scale on demand. Cloud has also been instrumental in both enabling new business models and disrupting the status quo of legacy markets.

Says Abhinav Gupta at CARS24, an online trading platform to buy and sell cars, traditionally the region has been known for its strong preference for new cars. However, prevailing trends demonstrate a U-turn. Analysts predict that the region’ s used car market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10 % until 2028, driven by a range of factors, including population growth, increased expatriate influx, rising disposable incomes, and more flexible financing options.

In our comprehensive feature of the month, we look at the dynamics of modern day data. CIOs need to stop thinking about data as something to be stored and start thinking about it as a product. That means breaking down silos, ensuring teams own their data, and putting a Data Streaming Platform at the heart of their architecture. than cleaning up the mess later. Without these shifts, businesses are stuck in the past.

Moving ahead, du announced its financial results for 2024 and they were the highest since its inception, both for revenue and profit. These results have been achieved through a three year long effort across revenue diversification, market segmentation, enhancing internal efficiencies, and restructuring of the organisation, all presented in our cover feature of the month.

Looking forward, du is leveraging its enterprise and governmental end customers to position itself as a preferred ICT services provider inside UAE.

Turn these pages to read more about the adoption of digital and business transformation across leading regional enterprises.

And in this month’ s Editor’ s Question executives from Halcyon, SentinelOne, NETSCOUT, SandboxAQ, answer how security decision makers should rebuild their security layers, policies and strategies to combat advanced threats.

Businesses are drowning in data but struggling to use it effectively because of silos says Leandro Galli at Confluent. Data Products change that by making teams responsible for their own data, ensuring it is structured, governed, and ready to be used. It is both an architectural and a cultural shift. To bring governance and structure to data at the point of creation rather

Wishing you the best of business success in the month ahead and Eid Mubarak.

Arun Shankar Managing Editor arun @ lynchpinmedia. com

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