Arun Shankar

People are both accelerator and obstacle to change says SAP’s Nelly Boustany

Nelly Boustany, Senior Director EMEA South, HCM Value, SAP, talks to GEC Media Group’s Editor Arun Shankar, about the role of people in digital transformation. People are at the centre of transformation

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Levent Ergin, Chief Strategist for Agentic AI, Regulatory Compliance and Sustainability, Informatica from Salesforce

Responsibility for failover and recovery sits firmly with customer

Distributed architectures play a critical role and the more distributed your data environment, the greater the resilience, says Levent Ergin at Informatica from Salesforce. What the current situation has drawn attention to

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Santiago Pontiroli, Lead TRU Researcher, Acronis

Availability of data is not availability of operations

Moving to multi-availability or multi-region setups requires a shift in how availability is understood. Data may remain available while services are degraded or partially inaccessible says Santiago Pontiroli at Acronis. Multi-availability and

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Diego Arrabal, VP EEMEA, Check Point Software Technologies

Resilience is now a leadership responsibility

Many organisations still talk about cyber resilience as a technical maturity score. In reality, especially during periods of regional stress, it is much closer to operational stability, says Diego Arrabal at Check

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Karim Azar, AVP and GM, Confluent Middle East

Operational resilience through real-time data architectures

The ability to detect, process and respond to events as they happen is quietly becoming one of the most important foundations of operational resilience. In fast-moving environments, the difference between reacting and

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Pivoting from security to resilience and sovereignty

The evolution from security to resilience, compounded by the mandate for sovereignty, is an operational pivot. For critical infrastructure operators, it is the new cost of doing business, enforced by government mandate

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Why the Middle East war will stress test global IT spending

While immediate exposure is highest in Middle East, second-order effects will flow globally through energy costs, capital allocation decisions, and hardware pricing. It is also true, technology proves itself when the environment

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Impact of Middle East war on IT spending

IDC assesses the impact of the war on Middle East and Africa’s IT spending across different scenarios, for weeks, months and across most of the year. The escalation of conflict in the

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Markets on edge as Middle East tensions trigger oil shock

Global financial markets have been shaken as escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East trigger one of the sharpest surges in oil prices in recent history, prompting investors to reassess the global

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Celebrating IWD 2026: Excellence at the top

Welcome to this special feature coinciding with International Women’s Day 2026. Our collection of 40+ women executive profiles this year shows that over the years, the skills of women executives in business

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Bull: a new brand to drive the future of advanced computing

Bull, a leading brand in advanced computing and AI, is officially launched, marking the return of a historically rooted technology name, reimagined for a new era. Reinvented through a new identity and

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