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HOUSEHOLD
CONNECTIVITY
A new level of convenience is on the
horizon with the ability to communicate
remotely with household devices.
HEALTHCARE
TARGETED
Security experts believe the
healthcare vertical is at extreme
risk from criminals.
UNLOCKING
DATA
How businesses can make best
use of data to become a truly
intelligent enterprise.
CLOUD
TRANSFORMATION
DAFZA Cloud is a powerful project to provide transformative
ICT services. A partnership between the Dubai Airport Freezone
Authority and Dell EMC is leveraging frontline ICT solutions to
deliver accelerated digital services.
IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS | LATEST INTELLIGENCE | REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATIONS
EDITOR’S NOTE
W
elcome to our second edition
of what is already promising to
be an exciting new year. This
month’s cover story demonstrates how cloud
is gaining an ever-greater prominence in the
Middle East.
We look in depth at a collaboration between
the Dubai Airport Freezone Authority
(DAFZA) and Dell EMC. The DAFZA cloud
project will enable the delivery of cloud
infrastructure to provide complete access to
smart services and empower innovation.
DAFZA will benefit from Dell EMC’s industry-
leading enterprise hybrid cloud, data
protection and back-up solutions and the
collaboration aims to power the ambitious
vision of providing transformative ICT
services to all stakeholders.
Proof, if any were needed, about how the
Middle East is swiftly adopting the whole
digital transformation process and leading
the way in many respects.
In this month’s ‘Talking Business’ Hozefa
Saylawala, Middle East Sales Director, at Zebra
Technologies, tells us how businesses can best
use data created by connected devices to truly
become an intelligent enterprise.
He suggests that data might very well be the
‘new oil’ with the rise of IoT technology in
everyday products. “With this anticipated
prevalence of IoT technology, sensors,
devices and environments will be smarter
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and better connected than ever before,”
he says. In another one of our features we
look at how the future will be one where we
will be able to remotely communicate with
our household devices. We look at the work
of the Whirlpool Corporation which is very
active in the Middle East region.
The company is connecting its appliances
with the functionality of the Apple Watch
meaning consumers will be able to remotely
communicate with enabled ovens, washers
and driers.
In the same article, we discover from research
commissioned by Arab Health that more and
more people living in the Middle East are
using ‘wearable’ technology to monitor their
personal health. We learn about the expected
explosion in the wearables market predicted
for the UAE and Saudi Arabia; who knew
technology could be so good for your health
and also for business?
On a similar but much less positive note in
‘Industry Watch’ we learn that cybercriminals
have set their sights on confidential health
information. Brandon Bekker, Managing
Director at Mimecast, Africa and the Middle
East, explains why and how the healthcare
sector is under attack with many security
industry experts believing the health sector is
the most underthreat vertical.
Brandon. Personal health information, he
tells us, cannot be reissued in the event of
a breach unlike credit cards for example, so
securing this information really does need to
become a top priority.
Equally as worryingly, we look at a new
report from A10 that shows how employees,
often unknowingly, weaken cybersecurity
by using unsanctioned apps. With poor
understanding of corporate security policies,
the report says, this behaviour increases the
risks that come with a growing reliance on
an app-dependent workforce.
Unfortunately, the role IT departments have
in defending against cyber attacks is more
difficult than ever, with more sophisticated
attacks on the rise and, in some cases,
attackers infiltrating corporate networks
without IT departments even knowing.
Anyway, please do not have nightmares and
enjoy the read!
Mark Bowen
Editor
“That’s because relatively speaking,
healthcare organisations are still behind
when it comes to security defences,” says
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