Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 35 | Page 107

38TH GITEX TECH WEEK | DUBAI WORLD TRADE CENTRE | 14–18 OCTOBER 2018 ITEX 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.’ S 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. V 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 www.intelligentcio.com “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.” INTELLIGENTCIO 107