Intelligent Data Centres Issue 04 | Page 34

NOTE ello and welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent Data Centres. This month, our cover story features Gulf Bank, one of the leading financial institutions in Kuwait, which is utilising Dell Technology solutions to enable its Digital Transformation project. H The bank is using VPLEX and RecoverPoint solutions to realise efficient data management, continuous data availability, seamless mobility and accelerate data centre modernisation, as well as Data Domain and Deduplication Technology to speed backups and reduce costs. Osamah AlAbdullah, Deputy General Manager – Information Technology at Gulf Bank Kuwait, tells us why the bank chose to work with Dell Technologies and explains how the solutions are helping to futureproof the organisation. Meanwhile, in our first feature of the month, we explore some of the key talking points when it comes to data storage. This is a key issue for the industry as the volume of data produced and received by organisations is only set to increase. We find out how Manchester City Council is leveraging the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to create an agile and scalable infrastructure, achieving a lower total cost of ownership, improved performance 34 Issue 04 LYNCHPIN MEDIA TEAM MANAGEMENT MANAGING PARTNER Richard Judd [email protected] [phone] MANAGING PARTNER Stuart Lynch [email protected] [phone] EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR AND EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO ME, ICIO KUWAIT AND INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS and vastly enhanced availability in this month’s ‘Feature 2’. The council has ambitious plans to take advantage of technological advances to meet the challenges of its increasingly diverse and mobile population and Mike Farrington, Technical Operations Manager, Manchester City Council, tells us more about how this is happening from page 44. And, as more organisations across the region embark on data centre modernisation projects, Mark O’Keefe, Director of Architecture at CyrusOne, talks us through some of the trends shaping this modernisation and offers best practice advice to those progressing their own efforts in our ‘Expert Opinion’ from page 40. As always, there’s also a round-up of all the latest news in the data centre sector, while our ‘intelligent’ brands section looks at what’s new in operations, infrastructure, power and cooling, and facilities. I hope you enjoy the magazine and if you’d like to contribute to any future issues please do not hesitate to contact me by emailing [email protected] Mark Bowen [email protected] [phone] EDITOR, INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES AND I NTELLIGENT CISO Jess Phillips [email protected] [phone] EDITOR, I NTELLIGENT CIO EUROPE Alix Pressley [email protected] [phone] EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO AFRICA Paul Rogers [email protected] [phone] EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO INDIA Partha Srinivasan [email protected] [phone] DESIGN HEAD OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Pippa Sanderson [email protected] HEAD OF DIGITAL SERVICES Charles Brandreth [email protected] WEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER Josh Peace [email protected] JUNIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Lorna Murphy [email protected] SALES & MARKETING COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR SALES MANAGER MARKETING AND OPERATIONS MANAGER Michal Zylinski [email protected] [phone] Amy Poole [email protected] [phone] Curtis Driscoll [email protected] [phone] COUNTRY PARTNERS COUNTRY MANAGER – KUWAIT Rajesh Gandhi [email protected] [phone] COUNTRY MANAGER – KUWAIT Feroz Tapiya [email protected] [phone] COUNTRY MANAGER – INDIA Partha Srinivasan [email protected] [phone] Lynchpin Media © 2019 Intelligent Data Centres is a Lynchpin Media publication for IT data centre professionals. If you wish to subscribe for regular copies then please email [email protected] Lynchpin Media is a boutique publisher registered in the United Kingdom. Company number 8096230. 5 Burnside Court, Leominster Enterprise Park, Herefordshire, HR6 0LX www.intelligentdatacentres.com