As customer expectations and technology continue to evolve at an unprecedented rate, the move to cloud is becoming a strategic priority for organizations across the region. According to IDC research, 49% of CIOs across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa believe that cloud adoption will greatly influence their plans to drive innovation and create new digital products, business models, and revenue streams over the next 12-18 months.
To ensure the most efficient implementation process possible, IT teams must take a holistic look at their cloud operating models. IT has become integral to driving business value and is now a crucial enabler for meeting business and customer expectations around speed, flexibility, cost, and reliability.
Cloud deployments will undoubtedly help organizations improve their operational efficiency over the long term, particularly those that have not yet fully optimized their technology environments. Indeed, those organizations that find themselves further down the transformation road are already realizing multiple benefits, including faster time to market, simplified innovation, easier scalability, and reduced risk. Organizations that get their operating models right can expect to see dramatic improvements in terms of target-state economics and transition costs.
Against this backdrop, the IDC Cloud and Datacenter Roadshow 2022 will explore how organizations can capture the inherent value of cloud by reimagining the IT infrastructure that underpins the cloud operating model. Join regional and global experts as we explain how your organization can build the right infrastructure to unleash its true innovation potential.
Ademola Adesalu
Managing Director, CRC Data & Analytics Limited (Nigeria)
Jonathan Valentin
Group Head of ICT & Digital, Evaco Group (Mauritius)
Sizwe Gwala
Head of Data Governance, ABSA Bank (South Africa)
Michael Michie
CTO, Standard Chartered Ventures (Kenya)
Dr. Pieter van der Walt
Group Information Governance & Privacy Officer, Discovery (South Africa)
Julius Orayo
Group Chief Information Officer
Victor Thobakgale
Executive Tehnology Operations Lead, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM)
Kola Asa
Head of IT, Capital Alliance (Nigeria)
Daniel Ofoleta
Head of IT, Accion Microfinance Bank Limited (Nigeria)
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Jonathan Tullett
Senior Research Manager, IT Services
Edward Ferrara
Research Director, Cloud to Edge Datacenter Strategies
Alain Tshal
District Sales Manager, F5
Sumeeth Singh
Cloud Provider Manager, VMware
Oluwole Babatope
Senior Research Analyst, Telecoms & Networking
Mark Walker
Associate Vice President, Sub-Saharan Africa, IDC
Patrick McGrath
Director of Product Management, Commvault
Sean Raymond
Regional Director, Africa, Darktrace
Aviv Abramovich
Head of Security Services Product Management, Check Point
Danie Thom
Open Hybrid Cloud Specialist & Change Catalyst, Red Hat
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA)
f5
F5 empowers its customers to create, secure, and operate applications that deliver extraordinary digital experiences. Fueled by automation and AI-driven insights, these applications will naturally adapt based on their changing environment—so companies can focus on their core business, boost speed to market, improve operations, and build trust with their customers.
VMware
VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Built on VMware's industry-leading virtualization technology, our solutions deliver a brave new model of IT that is fluid, instant and more secure. Customers can innovate faster by rapidly developing, automatically delivering and more safely consuming any application. With 2015 revenues of $6.6 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
KnowBe4
Commvault
Commvault liberates business and IT professionals to do amazing things with their data by ensuring the fundamental integrity of their business. Its industry-leading Intelligent Data Services Platform empowers these professionals to store, protect, optimize, and use their data, wherever it lives. Delivering the ultimate in simplicity and flexibility to customers, Commvault's Intelligent Data Services Platform is available as a software subscription, an integrated appliance, and software as a service — a critical differentiator in the market. For 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations have relied on Commvault. Driven by its values —Connect, Inspire, Care, and Deliver — Commvault employs more than 2,700 highly-skilled individuals around the world.
Darktrace
Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. It helps organizations standardize across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services.
Check Point
Fortinet
Fortinet secures the largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet provides its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface. The Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet has one of the most shipped security appliances worldwide, and more than 450,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.
Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) is a unique family of businesses that helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work and live. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio spanning from edge to core to cloud. The Dell Technologies family includes Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream and VMware.
ServiceNow
Comstor Africa
Westcon-Comstor is the leading global technology provider and specialist distributor of business technology. Operating in more than 70 countries, Westcon-Comstor delivers business value by connecting the world’s leading IT vendors with a channel of technology resellers, systems integrators, and service providers. The company combines industry insight, technical knowhow, and decades of distribution experience to accelerate its vendors’ and partners’ business success. Westcon-Comstor specializes by working with a selection of established and emerging technology vendors. The company offers expert value across technologies that are essential to business success.
Digital Event
Thursday, March 17, 2022
9:00 AM (GMT)
Language
English
Registration Fee
Free of Charge : For End Users (not IT + Consultant companies)
Contact
For More Information, contact: Lizelle Jones - Senior Conference Manager
Mobile: +27 73 404 3099 | Email: ljones@idc.com
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