National Bank of Kuwait CDO Tariq Al Osaimi takes a look at the history books, and explains why the GCC’s exploding youth population demands a rethinking of the relationship between branches and technology in the region.
Cloud security’s today and tomorrow
Prof. Yale Li, Chief Cyber Security Evaluation Expert of Huawei Internal Cyber Security Lab and Chairman of Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Greater China Region, gives his take on increased collaboration for cloud security.
UAE hosts meeting of global IT security standards body
DarkMatter, together with ESMA and UAE NESA, is hosting the meeting of the global Information Technology (IT) security standards body in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Fast-paced facts
Andreas Simon, Regional Channel Director, EMEA and Markus Brinsa, Vice President, International Business Development and Alliances, Jedox, discuss the numerous business advantages analytics can bring, and shares how the technology has evolved over the years.
Go mobile
Mohsin Shah, Channel Sales Manager at Aruba, discusses how adopting mobile technologies can hugely benefit SMBs in staying connected everywhere.
Why opt for converged infrastructure?
EMC’s senior director of converged infrastructure, Brad Maltz, explains why enterprises are opting for converged infrastructure solutions.
The brains of digital banking
National Bank of Fujairah’s head of IT, Dr. Joseph George, relates effective digital banking strategy to the effects of the human body and brain.
The digital dissidents
How can organisations cope when a digitally empowered employee carries out activities that can negatively disrupt their businesses?
The sky is the limit
Formerly CIO and CFO of Saudi Arabian Airlines, Muhammad Ali Albakri now combines technology and finance acumen in his role as the company’s executive vice president for strategic projects and airline transformation. He explores the technologies and trends that he believes are defining the aviation industry.
10 questions you should ask your ADC provider
Chris Gale, EMEA Partner Director, A10 Networks, suggests an array of questions centred around ensuring you pick the best application delivery controller (ADC) to suit your needs.
The road to DRaaS
Against a backdrop of geo-political situations and changing climates, the need for business continuity and disaster recovery solutions is becoming increasingly important. Yasser Zeineldin, CEO, eHosting Datafort, discusses the ‘logical next step’ after SaaS and IaaS: disaster recovery as a service.
Breaking traditions
Described as a cost-effective, high-quality and unified network solution, Eddie Fox, vice president, Network Services, MetTel, summarises the main reasons why businesses need to move away from traditional, WAN and consider adopting SD-WAN solutions.
Flash on
Ben Savage, EMEA Head of Channels and Alliances, Pure Storage, on why all-flash storage is transforming partner programmes.
Why contact centre managers need to be customer advocates
While technology is driving the transformation of the contact centre, the evolution of the contact centre manager’s role is being driven by an even more powerful force – meeting customer’s needs. Emir Susic, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa APS Senior Director, Avaya, explains how CC managers need to become customer advocates if their organisation is going to compete effectively.