IDC GCC Cloud The Future of Digital Infrastructure Is Cloud!

In our increasingly digital-first world, emerging technologies continue to disrupt the way business is done, and enterprises looking to compete in today’s marketplace are fast realizing that cloud is the platform that enables the fastest access to these innovative technologies. This session will showcase why a dynamic, scalable, and resilient cloud-based digital infrastructure that is deployable anywhere will be the digital foundation that drives the Future of Work, data management, customer experience, and digital innovation

As organizations adapt to the disruption caused by the global pandemic, the importance of understanding cloud delivery models has become imperative for all businesses across sectors.

The past year has demonstrated that becoming a highly integrated digital organization is vital and the technologies that drive the fourth industrial revolution have changed the enterprise landscape. To compete in a fast-growing API economy, the enterprise must move workloads to the cloud.

Join Garen Yacoubian, Director of Business Value Consulting at Opentext, as he shares insights on the impact of Cloud delivery models and how to unlock unlimited potential to perform, succeed transformational business models with operational excellence. This is the time for your organization to unlock its IT resources so that they can focus on strategic initiatives, innovation, and efficiency across your various environments.

Agility and the need to go to market faster has never been more important. The market has been pushed towards agility and competitors are fiercely grabbing onto untapped opportunities. As a business, do you capture those by pushing your innovations faster with minimal testing or wait till your solutions are ready and risk obsoleteness? DevOps is a set of practices that can support your organization in making a cultural shift from being process centric to product centric. The focus is on the customer, as it should always be. But what challenges could you face with DevOps? And as a decision maker, how would you measure its success? This session will address your concerns and provide you with deeper understanding about DevOps.

So, you're up to speed on what the cloud is and why it’s the right move for your business. Now comes the "how" – and, spoiler alert, there's no "one-size-fits-all" approach. Many organizations are moving towards a multicloud or hybrid approach in the hope of enabling performance optimization, cost savings, and flexibility. Although achievable, this trend comes with various challenges in gaining visibility for monitoring, cost control, and securing an organization's infrastructure, data, and applications. So, it's important to implement the right migration strategy, in the right way, for your business. To help, this session will explore the five different strategies for cloud migration and application modernization — Rehost, Refactor, Revise, Rebuild, and Replace. We'll review the pros and cons of each and highlight the potential challenges if the time comes to combine them.

To become a digital enterprise in today's hybrid world, organizations need to have an effective data strategy in place. With the adoption of cloud and emerging technologies such as mobility, social, IoT, wearables, and robotics, every organization is generating larger pools of data. These data pools are becoming gold mines for organizations as they can turn this data into actionable insights. Given the importance of these insights, organizations are increasingly investing in data management technologies for collecting, storing, managing, processing, identifying, and visualizing data. An effective and efficient data management strategy empowers organizations to make data-driven business decisions and transform themselves into 'digital enterprises'. This session will explore the latest trends and insights around data management in the Gulf region, while highlighting some key attributes and business benefits. It will also address the challenges that organizations across the region are facing in relation to their current data management strategies. 

Big Data is exploding, with around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated every day. Unfortunately, traditional data platforms suffer from scalability, flexibility, and latency issues and are not equipped to support artificial intelligence/machine learning workloads due to structural and performance limitations. Companies must consequently ditch their legacy architectures to meet modern enterprise requirements. Accordingly, many firms are augmenting their data warehouses and deploying data platforms using a unified database for data intensive applications. This move has helped businesses dramatically improve their performance and accelerate the speed of analytics. The session will look at a few case studies to demonstrate how some enterprises have improved performance through data warehouse augmentation