Contents
8
News
36
EDITOR’S COMMENT
18
Innovative UAE visitor experience during events
Tayfun Topkoc, SAP
19
Racing back after the business pit stop
Mohammed Areff, Avaya
20
New technologies driving IT and business alignment
Jyoti Lalchandani, IDC
ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
22
How service providers can drive enterprise transformation
Mehul Kapadia, Tata Communication
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
29
Building digital inside a CIO
Graham Waller, Gartner
36
Building a resilient nation
Dr Mahir Nayfeh, Rosa Donno, Nicholas Bahr,
Booz Allen Hamilton
39
How businesses can restructure using lean approach
Luis Ortega, IFS
41
Internet of Things, unlocking the opportunities for
the channel, Cisco
Shadi Salama, Cisco
INTELLIGENT CABLING
43
Real time monitoring of network ports and cables
R&M
43
48
INTELLIGENT CLOUD
46
Make your cloud applications perform optimally
Taj ElKhayat, Riverbed Technology
INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES
48
Selecting your strategic data centre partner
Sachin Bhardwaj, eHosting DataFort
INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE SECURITY
53
4
Enterprises responsible for their cloud security
Scott Montgomery, Intel Security
Issue 01
INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS