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ISSUE 15
EDITOR’S COMMENT
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Intelligent briefings for Middle East and Africa channel partners
EXPONENTIAL
DATA GROWTH
DRIVING CLOUD
INNOVATION
Mechelle Buys Du Plessis,
Managing Director, Dimension Data
Grassroot approach for
GCC digital skills Stress testing your
DevOps environment Security policies mapped
to business outcomes
ALI MATAR CHARBEL KHNEISSER ANT ALLAN
LINKEDIN TALENT SOLUTIONS
RIVERBED
GARTNER
EDITOR’S NOTE
I
n this issue of Intelligent Tech
Channels, we focus on the larger
technology ecosystem around storage.
Every day, we see vendor products and
solutions beginning to look closer into
what tomorrow’s IT landscape will look
like. Compute and storage specifications
will increasingly move away from the
foreground into the background.
Reliability of access to compute and
connectivity, speed and accuracy of
business intelligence, data integrity
and management, agility to adapt and
change to the business environment, will
increasingly become principal factors of
consideration for the organisation. The
ability to scale the performance of storage
is rapidly accelerating the inroads of
artificial intelligence to handle complex
and large data structures.
Says Pure Storage’s Christian Putz, “A
fundamental reason why deep learning has
seen a surge in success is the continued
improvement of models with larger data
set sizes. As of 2016, a rough rule of
thumb is that a supervised deep learning
algorithm will generally achieve acceptable
performance with around 5,000 labelled
examples per category, and will match or
exceed human performance when trained
with a dataset containing at least 10
million labelled examples.”
Savitha Bhaskar at Condo Protego, Phil
Dawson at Gartner, Mechelle Buys Du
Plessis at Dimension Data, Nick Jheng
at Synology and Khwaja Saifuddin at
Western Digital also bring in their deep
insights into the subject.
In an easy to read blog: Building
Tomorrow’s Digital Enterprises, Deepak
Narain at VMware impressively explains
that yesterday’s enterprises cannot be
merely transformed to prepare themselves
for the digital era, they need to be rebuilt.
Another good blog is from Ali Matar
at LinkedIn Talent Solutions, titled:
Grassroot approach required for creating
GCC digital skills. He argues that while
there is a significant mismatch between
the fastest growing job skills globally and
in the GCC, a corrective approach inside
the GCC starts within the education sector.
In our closing blogs, Ant Allan at Gartner
points out that security policies need to
be mapped to business outcomes. It is not
merely sufficient to chalk out awareness
programmes, they must also show the
impact on business. Rob Theis at Digital
Shadows drills down into corporate
and board compliance practices around
cybersecurity breaches. Board members
can no longer avoid discussing their
organisation’s security profile or risk being
shown as negligent to future threats.
Thoughtful reading here!
Managing Partner
Richard Judd
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Stuart Lynch
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Editor, ITC
Arun Shankar
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Managing Editor and Editor
ICIO Middle East
Mark Bowen
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Editor, ICIO Europe
Alix Pressley
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