Arun ShankarThe GEC Media Group and Veritas Aptare, executive briefings continued its engagement with leading CIOs in the GCC region. On 22 October, the executive briefing was held in Doha, Qatar with the continuing theme of how to how to manage IT data environments in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure. The Doha executive briefing was led by Ian Wood, Head of EMEA Business Practice, Veritas. Also present at the briefing from Veritas were Donal Berry, Country Manager Qatar, and Mazen Adhamy, Regional Channel Manager, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan.
The briefing got underway with an icebreaking session where CIOs introduced themselves, gave an overview of their IT environment, stated their pain points and expectations at the end of the session. Automating processes was found to be a key priority for almost all Qatar CIOs present at the executive briefing.
Next, Wood gave a short overview of the global storage landscape trends. Amongst other parametres, Wood justified introducing Aptare IT Analytics in the region on the basis of show back of unused storage in enterprises. CIOs can reclaim unused storage across diversified business groups, and save on purchase of additional storage as a possible basis of return on investment.
CIOs can compare performance of multivendor backup tools across the enterprises and trouble shoot high failure rates. By troubleshooting incidents of failure of backup across multiple vendors and multiple platforms such as private, hybrid, public and multi-cloud, CIOs can increase the levels of data compliance across the enterprise. They can also closely monitor distribution of data across a cloud environment increasing the levels of compliance, when business takes the lead in adoption of cloud based tools.
The Doha executive briefing was attended by top IT decision makers from Qatar Airways, McDonald’s, Qatar Plastic products, North Oil, Advanced Construction Technology, Gulf Drilling, Doha Bank, Qatar Insurance Group, Qatar National Cement, amongst others. The IT decision makers present at the Doha briefing, were keen to understand how Aptare IT Analytics could help them in their day to day operational role.
The Aptare team presented the solution through a live browser based demonstration. The CIO executives were able to appreciate the versatility of the dashboard and its extensive multivendor and multiplatform capability. The Aptare team presented the powerful capability of the solution that is customizable and can generate any type of report based on the requirement of the IT administration team and their ongoing pain points.
The Doha Veritas Aptare executive briefing was supported by Qatar Computer Services, QCS. The GEC Media Group and Veritas Aptare executive briefings continues next into Kuwait and Oman. UAE based GEC Media Group are the publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels, The Titans, Cyber Sentinel.
