Contents
8 News
EDITOR’S COMMENT
12
Three megatrends that will drive digital
business into the next decade
Mike J Walker, Research Director at Gartner.
ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
15
Living it large with Big Data
Big Data presents one of the greatest
opportunities and challenges for the channel.
INTELLIGENT CABLING
30
31
Bespoke engraved labelling from Excel
Richard Cann, Technical Services Manager
at Excel.
Stratix 2500 lightly managed switch
addresses evolving networking needs
Divya Venkataraman, Global Product
Manager, Rockwell Automation.
INTELLIGENT CLOUD
33
ServiceNow launches Trusted Security Circles
Sean Convery, General Manager, Security
Business Unit, ServiceNow.
INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES
36
37
BT and Dell EMC team up to research flexible,
software-defined networks of the future
Neil J McRae, Chief Architect for BT.
Setting your datacentre migration strategy
Sachin Bhardwaj, Director Marketing &
Business Development, eHosting DataFort.
INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE SECURITY
38
Why we should let our walls down when it
comes to cybersecurity
Ashish Gupta, Executive Vice President and
Chief Marketing Officer at Infoblox.
Mohammed Amin, Senior Vice President, Middle East,
Turkey and Africa at Dell EMC.
INTELLIGENT MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
44 World first for Gemalto
David Buhan, Senior Vice President Mobile
and IoT Services for Gemalto.
45 Riverbed Launches New Xirrus Wi-Fi Access
Point Setting a New Industry
Bruce Miller, Vice President, Xirrus Product
Marketing, Riverbed Technology.
INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE BUSINESS
46
EXPERT SPEAK
52 Best practices for Privileged
Access Management
John Hathaway, Regional Sales Director,
Middle East, BeyondTrust.
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63 INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
MARKET MOVEMENT
Most Read Online
Social Following
INTELLIGENT GREEN TECHNOLOGY
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Siemon continues its environmental
commitment with Advanced Energy Analytics
John Buckley, Plant Engineering and Facilities
Manager for Siemon.
How to avoid being held hostage
by ransomware
Richard Agnew, VP NW EMEA
at Veeam Software.
FINAL WORD
64
Organisations worldwide mistakenly believe
they are GDPR-compliant
Johnny Karam – VP Emerging Market
at Veritas.
Issue 10
INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS