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How the MEA can embrace
the changing status quo
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Ehab Kanary, Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Middle
East and Africa, Commscope, shares his insight on how
the data centre industry can prepare for the future with
constant change becoming the new status quo.
Ehab Kanary, Vice
President, Enterprise
Sales, Middle East
and Africa
I
n places like the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), the government is reimagining
what transportation and education will
look like in the future. They’ve appointed the
world’s first Minister for Artificial Intelligence
and more than half a million people from
22 countries have applied to participate in
the One Million Arab Coders programme. My
colleagues and I are debating whether or
not flying cabs may soon be a reality.
Constant change is the status quo across
the Middle East and Africa (MEA). And we’re
seeing change in the world of data centres.
The machines are coming. The Middle East
and Africa will see a six-fold growth in IP
traffic from 2015 to 2020, according to
Cisco. Billions of machines are required to
keep these connections running, and by
talking to each other, they put an extreme
amount of stress on any network.
With 5G coming to market in the next five to
10 years, and IDC predicting that the market
WHERE DATA
CENTRES ONCE
SIMPLY ACTED AS
STORAGE UNITS
FOR DATA, THEY
NOW COMPUTE,
ANALYSE AND
PROCESS
INFORMATION,
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