38TH GITEX TECH WEEK | DUBAI WORLD TRADE CENTRE | 14–18 OCTOBER 2018
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SAP to showcase Smart City journeys
upporting Smart Cities innovation
at GITEX, SAP will exhibit under the
theme ‘The Intelligent Enterprise’
with a central showcase of ‘Life in the City
Reimagined for the Digital Age.’
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Six customer journeys will demonstrate
how technology innovations in Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain
and Big Data can foster equality, spread
opportunities and transform the way that
people live and work.
Showcases will include business and family
trips with autonomous vehicles, personalised
mobile ordering, and environmentally-
friendly designs and incentives. Visitors can
also experience Intelligent Living demos
across aviation, banking and finance, public
sector, retail and telco.
“Record-high spend on the Middle East’s
Smart Cities shows the mass transition of the
Visit the SAP stand at the Dubai World
Trade Centre in Hall 6.
region’s enterprises in becoming ‘Intelligent
Enterprises,” said Gergi Abboud, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, SAP Middle
East South.
“GITEX Technology Week is an ideal platform
to showcase how Intelligent Enterprises and
Smart Cities can leverage data more effectively
to draw meaningful insights that can
transform citizen services, enhance daily lives,
and ultimately make the world run better.”
Visitors can experience solutions running on
the SAP HANA in-memory platform,
SAP S/4HANA real-time business suite,
SAP C/4HANA customer experience
solutions and SAP Leonardo digital
innovation system.
Gergi Abboud, Senior Vice President and
General Manager, SAP Middle East South
Veeam to share its vision of the
‘Hyper-Available Enterprise’
eeam Software, a leader in
Intelligent Data Management for
the hyper-available enterprise,
will share its vision on how to address the
current challenges of enterprises in the
Middle East.
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Veeam will have its own dedicated stand
B7–15 in Hall 7.
and Blockchain require a platform with
massive scalability and ease of use for
managing data.
Veeam will specifically address the hyper-
criticality of data, hyper-growth of data and
hyper-sprawl of data during GITEX.
Claude Schuck, Regional Manager, Middle
East and Central Africa at Veeam, said:
“Digital Transformation is now a requisite
for survival for all enterprises, across
all industries.
Attendees have the opportunity to learn
about the need for hyper-availability in
a data-driven world, and why Veeam
is a trusted provider of Intelligent data
management solutions to meet the
demands of the hyper-available enterprise.
Veeam executives will demonstrate how
customers are leveraging the Veeam
Hyper-Availability Platform for intelligent
data management to ensure business
continuity, to reduce risk, and accelerate
innovation in an era where technologies
ranging from IoT, AI, Machine Learning
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“At GITEX we intend educating CIOs and
IT managers about the need to re-think
their IT strategies and service models
and move away from legacy backup and
recovery solutions as they virtualise their
infrastructures and move to the cloud.
Claude Schuck, Regional Manager, Middle
East and Central Africa at Veeam
“Hyper-Availability solutions for the modern
data centre is the way forward and is central
to Digital Transformation.”
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