EC News DeskGlobal CIO Forum’s GCF Unite WebSummit, Veritas and Datacentrix, successfully completed a regional virtual seminar targeting the banking industry in East Africa, Indian Ocean islands, and adjacent countries. The focus of the webinar led by executives from Veritas and Datacentrix was on abstraction of data and reduction of enterprise complexity. The webinar was completed on 21 April and included CIOs and IT decision makers from the banking industry from multiple countries including Zimbabwe, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mauritius and Zambia, amongst others.
The webinar also focused on how to manage the challenges of information archiving from the core of the enterprise to the cloud and to the edge of the network. Veritas executives presented the family of data protection appliances for data availability. The Veritas executives leading the webinar included Elie Chaccour, Regional Director for Europe, Africa and Levant; Nitish Rucktooa, Country Manager Central Africa and India Ocean Islands; Tosin Odukoya,, District Manager; and John Dewar, Data Management Business Unit from Datacentrix.
The webinar was attended by 80+ executives and there was a significant back and forth discussion through the questions posed by the attendee delegates. The attendees were keen to understand the level of support that Veritas could provide across Africa. Installation, training and support across Africa are provided by Veritas channel partners. The key channel partners of Veritas including Datacentrix operate across most of Africa. In particular, Datacentrix is a Platinum Partner of Veritas and offers GDPR compliant, SLA based, managed services for the African banking industry.
The various presentations made by Veritas executives, pointed out the value of Veritas Appliances that included optimised integration, hardened security, simplified management, and proactive support. 98% of Fortune 100 and 86% of Fortune 500 are Veritas global customers. Global customers continue to face multiple modern day challenges including more data, more threats, more regulations, and more fragmentation.
Today no enterprise is in a position to reset itself, and needs to cope with its legacy of technology and data archives move forward accordingly. Veritas offers a single platform to manage ransomware, modern workloads, software defined storage, and multi-cloud. Veritas solution strength covers information archiving, business continuity, availability, protection, resiliency, and its flagship product NetBackup.
The Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform automates the protection and orchestrates the recovery of data everywhere it lives, ensures 24×7 availability of business-critical applications, and provides enterprises with the insights they need to comply with evolving data regulations. With a reputation for reliability at scale and a deployment model to fit any need, Veritas supports more than 500 data sources and over 150 storage targets, including 60 clouds.
Global CIO Forum’s GCF Unite WebSummit is an online webinar platform that is aimed towards creating a global technology leaders’ community whose ultimate goal is to Integrate, Influence, Impact CIOs and technology leaders. The GCF Unite WebSummit will be hosting a series of events in 30+ countries featuring successful local technology leaders, CIOs, IT Directors, innovators, educators and investors who share business leadership best practices.
