Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 35 | Page 105

38TH GITEX TECH WEEK | DUBAI WORLD TRADE CENTRE | 14–18 OCTOBER 2018 ITEX Aruba highlights how Digital Transformation starts with the network (DX) initiatives in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) set to top US$38 billion by 2021, according to IDC. Manish Bhardwaj, Snr Marketing Manager, Middle East, Africa and Turkey at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company I, Blockchain, smart workplaces and future transportation will be the key buzzwords at GITEX with annual spending on Digital Transformation A Manish Bhardwaj, Snr Marketing Manager, Middle East, Africa and Turkey at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, said: “As businesses around the world continue to transform their offerings to better enable their employees and serve their customers, networks must be ready to adapt for the future. It’s not just about adding tech but creating a framework for it all to work together.” With this in mind, Aruba will be demonstrating its Mobile First architecture, a next-generation networking architecture for the software-defined enterprise, designed to deliver a network that is open, secure and autonomous. The Mobile First Architecture is In its ninth appearance at GITEX, Aruba will be exhibiting at stand number A7–1 in HALL 7 alongside Hewlett Packard Enterprise. purpose-built for the digital era and enables enterprises to rapidly innovate and transform their networks so that businesses can deliver amazing experiences and simplify IT. It provides a secure, intelligent, non-stop networking experience on a single, open, software-defined architecture that extends from data centre to branch environments for a consistent IT experience across the entire enterprise. Bhardwaj added: “We are eager to meet large enterprises that are eager to digitally transform their businesses and mid-sized enterprise planning on implementing cloud infrastructure.” Riverbed invites enterprises to ‘Rethink Possible’ at GITEX 2018 iverbed, the digital performance company, will encourage companies to ‘Rethink Possible’ at GITEX 2018. Under the theme ‘Maximize Digital Performance: #RETHINKPOSSIBLE’, Riverbed will showcase platforms for digital experience management and next-generation infrastructure, including demonstrating the power of Riverbed SteelCentral, the market-leading digital experience visibility solution for end-to- end network, application and end-user experience monitoring. and North Africa at Riverbed. “Riverbed has evolved its portfolio significantly in recent years with solutions that help organisations maximise digital performance across every aspect of their business, allowing them to fundamentally ‘Rethink Possible.’ Riverbed aims to help organisations maximise digital performance, enabling them to fully measure and monitor the digital experience and address the most critical network infrastructure requirements of the government, oil and gas, financial services and retail sectors. “By experiencing first-hand the breath of our portfolio of solutions at GITEX, attendees will understand why we are a necessary catalyst in the implementation and successful adoption of major technology trends including cloud, Artificial Intelligence, mobility and analytics.” “In the digital era, digital performance is business performance,” said Elie Dib, Regional Vice President, Middle East, Turkey Riverbed’s unified and integrated Digital Performance Platform, brings together a powerful combination of digital experience R www.intelligentcio.com Senior executives from Riverbed’s sales, technical and channel teams will be present and can be met at the company’s stand CC2–11 on Concourse 2. management and next-generation infrastructure – from the edge, data centre to the cloud – solutions that provides a modern IT architecture for the digital enterprise, delivering new levels of operational agility and dramatically accelerating business performance and outcomes. Elie Dib, Regional Vice President, Middle East, Turkey and North Africa (METNA) at Riverbed INTELLIGENTCIO 105