GITEX 2016 SPECIAL
SUSE
SUSE will showcase its four main product offerings for
the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) and Zero
Downtime Environments - mission critical Enterprise
Linux, private cloud, storage and Linux management.
PURE STORAGE
Pure Storage will showcase its recently
launched FlashArray//m10 and FlashBlade
solutions.
The latest addition to the FlashArray//m
family, FlashArray//m10 is a storage solution
for mid-sized IT, as well as an affordable entry
point to flash for larger enterprises looking to
flash-enable a first key business application.
FlashBlade is a scale-out, all flash storage
platform that delivers all-flash performance to
multi-petabyte-scale data sets at economics
of less than $1/GB usable of data.
“Dealing with legacy IT has become
increasingly complex, expensive and painful,
silently but insidiously killing productivity and
sucking massive amounts of time and money
better spent on accelerating innovation,” said
James Petter, Vice President, EMEA, at Pure
Storage. “At Pure Storage, we are committed
to re-defining modern storage with simplicity
first, as help customers on their journey to the
all-flash data centre.”
Commenting on their participation at GITEX 2016,
Paul Abi-Chahine, Regional Director, EEMEA said,
“The ongoing digital transformation is redefining
how enterprises do businesses across the globe and
across verticals. If regional organisations are to keep
pace with their global competition it is critical for
them to embrace the Software Defined Data Centre
(SDDC), a cornerstone of the digitised economy. The
SDDCs virtualise all elements of the infrastructure
such as networking, storage, security, and processing
power and run it as a service. With the focus being
on flexibility, scalability, and redundancy, the
potential impact this will have on business models is
significant.”
With a presence at SAP’s stand, SUSE will showcase
SUSE Enterprise Linux Server for SAP. This solution
can ease deployment and increase uptime of missioncritical SAP solution-based workloads on Linux,
including high availability features for the public cloud
and updated optimization for SAP HANA, thus saving
customers time and reducing operating costs.
In addition, together with their value added
distributor, Aptec Middle East, an Ingram Micro
company, SUSE will showcase their open source
infrastructure solutions – Enterprise Linux, OpenStack
Private Cloud, Software-Defined-Storage and Linux
Management - that offer a platform for deploying and
managing highly available enterprise-class IT services
in physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure.
Location: (SAP stand) Hall 6 /Aptec
Middle East stand, Hall 4
In addition to showcasing their new solutions,
Pure Storage will also be using GITEX as
a platform showcase ‘Evergreen Storage’,
the disruptive business model that allows
customers to deploy storage once and
independently upgrade performance, capacity
& connectivity with no-downtime while
keeping maintenance costs flat for the lifespan
of the array and enterprises. As a result,
organisations can avoid “Forklift Upgrades”
every three years, which are expensive, risky
and wasteful.
Location: Cloud Hall
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