Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 22 | Page 43

FEATURE: GITEX 2017 organisations easily track valued assets and automate inventory management, resulting in improved organisational efficiency and lower capital and operational costs associated with misplaced assets. The company will also be demonstrating the latest Aruba 8400 Core Switch Series, purpose-built for emerging mobile-cloud business applications and changing traffic patterns that are being driven by the flood of data sources and growth in IoT. Aruba will also be demonstrating its entire range of mobility and IoT solutions under the umbrella of the company’s Mobile First Platform including ArubaOS, Aruba AirWave, Aruba ClearPass, Aruba Central, Aruba Meridian, and Aruba Beacons. Centra Hub HUB CENTRA Centra Hub announced its plans to promote the upgraded version of its Customer Relationship Management solution with inbuilt entry-level accounting module that is completely VAT-compliant as well as the cloud-ready version built on thin-client architecture. The company will also showcase its other industry- leading solutions such as Real Estate Management Systems, Computer Aided Facility Management Systems and Human Capital Management at the region’s leading technology exhibition. Cisco CISCO Cisco plans to showcase its key architectures and technology products and solutions across cybersecurity, enterprise networking, digital network architecture, data centre and cloud, collaboration, IoT and digitisation for Smart Cities. Aligned with the overall event theme of Reimagining Realities, Cisco will invite its customers to participate in a virtual reality experience zone, which will be split into two sections, one for live Cisco demonstrations and the other for interactive games with visitors. In addition to placing the spotlight on its biggest innovation, the Intuitive Network, its new intent-based networking platform, Cisco will host an interactive Digital Network Architecture Centre to present its enterprise networking and security solutions. The Digital Network Architecture Centre will offer visitors a hands-on experience showcasing how Cisco’s software driven approach delivers intent-based networking solutions and services that turn network traffic data into actionable insights, helping make business decisions faster, mitigating more security threats, and managing the unprecedented scale of connected devices and services more easily. Through demos at its stand, Cisco will highlight real-life, industry relevant scenarios that demonstrate how its technology solutions can help accelerate a customer’s digital transformation journey, help them re-imagine their businesses and identify what is possible when technology and business strategies come together seamlessly. Cisco will present a Smart Cities Interactive Feature Wall showcasing the company’s contribution to the acceleration of digitisation within education, tourism, Smart Cities and the protection of national infrastructure. In addition to this, Cisco will also amplify its technology solution use cases across multiple verticals with a major focus on retail. Cisco’s collaboration booth will show how collaboration and teamwork can be achieved easily and cost-effectively in a cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployment. For its digitisation initiative, Cisco will present two scenarios including the public sector focused on Smart Cities within education, tourism and protection of national infrastructure, as well as private sector focus on retail. The company will hold demos for its security solutions through its security threat wall and security demonstration zone. The data centre and cloud solutions will be presented as two segments including data centre infrastructure and big data and analytics. Cisco is one of the three Augmented and virtual reality, and robotics, are key technology themes in Gitex 2017 www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 43