Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 83 | Page 17

NEWS

BNET announces distinguished appointments to its executive team

and Logistics , Ahmed Khalaf as Director of Power and Buildings and Yusuf Buti as Director of Corporate Security . Ahmed Jaber Aldoseri , CEO of BNET , said : “ We are pleased to welcome the new members , who form a solid group of experienced and distinguished executives that will add value to our organisation , reinforcing BNET`s efforts to achieve further growth and success .” my sincere gratitude to Mr Ahmed Jaber Aldoseri , CEO of BNET and all BNET ’ s executive team , for their confidence . I look forward to working closely with the company ’ s management team and employees to achieve further success to contribute to BNET ’ s vision .”
Laalea Rostom , Director of Procurement and Logistics , BNET

Bahrain Network ( BNET ), the national telecommunications infrastructure company , announced a number of new appointments set to join the company ’ s executive team . The appointments will see Laalea Rostom as Director of Procurement

Laalea Rostom brings more than 15 years of experience in the field of resource management , where she held the positions of Chief of Tenders and Contracts Department , Chief of Material Management Department and many other managerial positions in the Electricity and Water Authority ( EWA ).
Commenting on the appointment , Rostom , said : “ It gives me a great pleasure to be joining BNET and I would like to express

NetApp and VMware strengthen global partnership to help customers modernise with multi-cloud

NetApp , a global , cloud-led , data-centric software company and VMware , have announced the expansion of the companies ’ longstanding global alliance .

Through innovative solutions and go-tomarket initiatives , NetApp and VMware are helping customers reduce the cost , complexity and risk of migrating and modernising enterprise-class workloads in multi-cloud environments . In addition , organisations can accelerate the performance and delivery of both traditional and new modern applications and simplify daily operations through new integrations between VMware and NetApp data management infrastructure .
The NetApp and VMware partnership is built on the foundation of shared experience supporting twenty thousand mutual customers over more than 20 years . NetApp and VMware are helping customers to effectively manage , share and protect their hybrid and multi-cloud environments by collaborating on customer-driven coengineering to offer innovative solutions .
“ Customers today are faced with complex challenges to optimise their current IT investments while laying a path forward to modernise and accelerate their business ,” said George Kurian , Chief Executive Officer , NetApp . “ Together , NetApp and VMware have helped thousands of customers solve their multi-cloud challenges by effectively managing their enterprise workloads in any environment . By delivering powerful new solutions that help companies optimise their virtual data centres , modernise their applications and provide cost-efficient , enterprise-class data
George Kurian , Chief Executive Officer , NetApp
management services to VMware Cloud , we can meet customers anywhere they are on their cloud journey .”
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