The GEC Media Group and Veritas Aptare, executive briefings continued its engagement with leading CIOs in the GCC region. On 03 November, the executive briefing was held in Kuwait with the continuing theme of how to how to manage IT data environments in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure.
The Kuwait executive briefing was led by Brett Samuel, Head of Technology, Middle East and South Africa, Veritas. Also present at the briefing was by Muawiya Abu Jubain, Chief Operating Officer, ITS, who made a presentation.
The roundtable discussion was coordinated by Roy Joseph, IT Director of Kuwait Hotel Companies. Close to 15 leading CIOs from Kuwait were in attendance at the executive round table briefing.
The presentation on Aptare IT Analytics helped CIOs to appreciate that they can reclaim unused storage and save on purchase of additional storage as a possible basis of return on investment. It also helped explain the concept of data storage chargeback and show back that is facilitated by Aptare IT Analytics.
Using Aptare IT Analytics CIOs can compare performance of multivendor backup tools across the enterprises and trouble shoot high failure rates. CIOs can monitor distribution of data across a multi-cloud environment increasing the levels of compliance.