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News
EDITOR’S COMMENT
14 GDPR compliance will boost value of data
Arun Khehar at Oracle.
15 European Union’s GDPR regime will impact the
region
Talal Wazani, Help AG.
ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
16
Networking platforms for digital transformation
Domain Name Systems and network automation
are key technologies driving the transformation
of networks.
INTELLIGENT CABLING
30
Importance of IT infrastructure in supporting
digital transformation
Sachin Bhardwaj at eHosting DataFort.
INTELLIGENT GREEN TECHNOLOGY
41
INTELLIGENT CLOUD
33
Kiss cloud security concerns goodbye
Kamal Anand, A10 Networks.
INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES
36
Point of inflexion for cloud replication
and portability
Rick Vanover and Danny Allen at Veeam.
INTELLIGENT MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
44
Regulations, complexity, agility, will dominate
demands from security
Greg Day at Palo Alto Networks.
AI, video, BYOA, set to transform future
workplace Executives from Dimension Data.
INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE BUSINESS
46
INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE SECURITY
38
UAE IT and telecom businesses initiate
sustainability reporting
Hanife Ymer and Raajeev B Batra, KPMG.
Digital giants will self-disrupt, false news will
take command
Daryl Plummer, Gartner.
EXPERT SPEAK
52 Transformation ahead for service providers
Ali Amer, Cisco.
53 Arrival of the Chief AI Officer
Pranay Dave, Teradata.
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INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
MARKET MOVEMENT
Most Read Online
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FINAL WORD
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65 Building the A-team for digital transformation
Carol Rozwell, Gartner.
66 Pros and cons of ten personal technologies
Annette Jump, Gartner.
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