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News
EDITOR’S COMMENT
14 Building tomorrow’s digital enterprises
Deepak Narain at VMware.
15 Grassroot approach required for creating GCC
digital skills
Ali Matar at LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
23
Innovating surveillance devices for
early responders
Tony Yi-Chung Chie, Manager of Hunt Electronic.
INTELLIGENT CABLING
30
Fibre to the Office, tomorrow’s
network backbone
Tarek Helmy at Nexans Cabling Solutions.
INTELLIGENT CLOUD
33
Security, Paas, video, key drivers of
cloud innovation
Karl Roe, Martin Hester and Steve Harris from
Nuvias, share their forecasts of key influencers
around cloud, security, networking, and
unified communication.
Tarek Helmy, Regional Director Gulf and Middle East, South and East
Africa, Nexans Cabling Solutions.
INTELLIGENT GREEN TECHNOLOGY
41
INTELLIGENT MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
44
Digital transformation driving adoption of cloud,
IT optimisation
Cindy Borovick at F5 Networks.
46
Top 10 security risks in the year ahead
Ian Kilpatrick at Nuvias Group.
BPM, mobile, IoT driving investment in
field operations
Findings from a recent Red Hat-Vanson
Bourne study.
EXPERT SPEAK
52 Expanding networks and the gigabit society
Andreas Rüsseler at R&M.
53 Stress testing your DevOps environment
Charbel Khneisser at Riverbed.
INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE SECURITY
38
Automation, cloud, security, data, to dominate
year ahead
David Meads at Cisco.
INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE BUSINESS
INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES
36
Microgrids boost adoption of
intelligent technologies
Martin Baier, Vijay Bhavaraju, William
Murch and Sercan Teleke from Eaton.
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INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS
MARKET MOVEMENT
Most Read Online
Social Following
FINAL WORD
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65 Security policies need to be mapped to
business outcomes
Ant Allan at Gartner.
66 Calculate your security spending through digital
risk management
Rob Theis at Digital Shadows.
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