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H.H. SHEIKH HAMDAN MAKES FIRST VIDEO CALL TO SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS AT RASHID CENTRE FOR PEOPLE OF DETERMINATION FROM AVAYA STAND
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t a special ceremony at GITEX Technology Week 2019, Mariam Othman, Chief Executive Officer, Rashid Centre for People of Determination, launched the foundation’s groundbreaking communications and collaboration platform for special needs institutions, co-developed with Avaya. The solution helps streamline communications between staff, students and parents, thereby elevating learning experiences, enhancing student safety, and simplifying administration. “It has been our vision to use technology to elevate the quality of education and care that we provide to this inspiring segment
of society. We thank Avaya who have partnered with us to design a truly unique solution that makes our vision a reality,” said Mrs. Othman. The new platform helps make remote learning and virtual classrooms a reality and helps to enable seamless high-quality video collaboration between staff and parents all while reducing the Institution’s communicationsrelated operational expenses. With inbuilt fleet management, the system can efficiently track school buses in real-time, giving parents peace of mind while their children are being transported to and from the Center. Appealing to the technology industry to make ‘accessibility
for all’ a guiding principle in solution design, Nidal Abou-Ltaif, President, Avaya International said, “Communication is at the core of the human experience and we believe it should be a fundamental right for any individual, irrespective of their abilities. Our work can only be considered as true progress when it delivers equality of experience for all. While Avaya remains firmly committed to championing this cause, it is my sincere hope that our industry peers will also rise to the challenge and embrace accessibility by design, so every innovation can have the potential to benefit all segments of society.”
Kingston Technology Europe, at GITEX 2019, will be presenting their Supermicro server upgraded with the latest Intel Cascade Lake processor, along with promoting all the memory modules of the portfolio, such as 2933MHz modules and their DC SSD product line. Kingston will also be highlighting NVMe SSDs in servers, accompanied by live demos of their encrypted USB’s. “Data protection has become a baseline requirement for most businesses in these times. At Kingston, we are constantly exploring new solutions for organizations to improve and successfully gain control and visibility of their security environment by mitigating risk in today’s digital world. With our cutting-edge technologies, we continue to upgrade our products infrastructure to deliver on our commitment of supporting digital transformation in the region. Our philosophy of developing new solutions rests on the premise of providing products that offer consistent and reliable performance, as has been our hallmark. By actively taking part at GITEX, an event that embodies the UAE’s leadership in the field of future technologies, we will be showcasing market leading encrypted storage solutions for data protection, along with high quality Kingston memory solutions that play a prominent role in driving digital transformation and developing the ICT sector in UAE.” commented Laurent Sirgy, Regional Director SEMEA Kingston Technology.
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FROM COURAGEOUS WHISTLEBLOWERS, SAUDI ARABIA’S TRANSFORMATION AND GEN Z TO AI AWARD WINNERS: GITEX 2019 OPENS The 39th edition of GITEX Technology Week and the 4th edition of GITEX Future Stars kicked off today with keynote sessions from internationally renowned whistleblower Tyler Shultz, who exposed fraud at blood-testing startup Theranos, game-changing technologies to benefit people of determination as well as major shifts in the international startup industry with the launch of the GITEX G2i Summit and the Supernova Challenge semi-finals. At a special ceremony, Mariam Othman, chief executive officer of the Rashid Centre for People of Determination, launched a smart communications and collaboration platform for special needs institutions, co-developed with Avaya.
TAIGER : RESULT-DRIVEN AI For TAIGER, the vision is quite simple—Automate Manual yet Complex Tasks, Intelligently.
The solution will help streamline communications between staff, students and parents and aims to improve learning experiences, enhance student safety and simplify the Centre’s administration. The platform aims to make remote learning and virtual classrooms a reality and features inbuilt fleet management which can track school buses in real-time, giving parents peace of mind while their children are being transported to and from the Centre.
In a candid conversation with Neil Briody, VP Sales, Middle East, he tell us how the Singapore headquartered company is helping enterprises simplify their operations and improve business through the company’s result driven AI solutions. All of the company’s solutions are directed towards providing better customer satisfaction. TAIGER’s solutions extract and understand information at blistering speeds from all kinds of data, even entirely unstructured data without fixed formats. “With TAIGER, companies can get a better understanding of their data and attain a higher level of accuracy. The results are achieved using various AI capabilities, natural language processing etc that deeply analyzes the data gathered. Recently, the company also announced its official global technology and commercial partnership with Microsoft. As a global partner, TAIGER’s award winning suite of workplace AI solutions will be available on Azure specifically, Microsoft Marketplace and AppSource, to help clients better streamline end to end business workflows. TAIGER provides tailored solutions for key verticals such as BFSI and government. Specifically for the banking sector and a banks’s day-to-day operations, the company created a solution embedded with highly specialized, domain-specific intelligence to automate the information extraction and validation for all relevant documents. This allows the bank to minimize human intervention and reduce operational delays.
INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SCALE - THE JUNIPER MANTRA For Juniper, the three keywords surfing the waves has been Innovation, Automation and Scale— all of which are redefining the network of the future.
As one of the major exhibitors at GITEX, Juniper is all set to showcase its intelligent WAN and next Gen SDN solution to the visitors, partners and customers. In an exclusive conversations with Yarob Sakhnini, Vice president, emerging markets - EMEA at Juniper Networks, he tells us about the company’s unique vision of understanding the customer business objectives and what they are trying to accomplish and designing solutions and bringing innovation based on that. The company follows a very interesting theory of ‘notcompeting-but-coexisting’. “It is the age of multi-cloud, which directly or indirectly means working with multiple vendors. As Juniper Networks, all our efforts go in the direction of helping customers simplify their multi-cloud journey by helping them work with multiple vendors in synchronization. Hence, we believe in co-existing with the other technology alliance partners,” says Yarob.
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DU SHOWCASES THE FUTURE OF ENTERPRISE DRONE SOLUTIONS AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK 2019 du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has today announced a partnership with Exponent Technology Solutions to deliver bespoke Drones as a Service (DaaS) and Drone Traffic Control Centre solutions to match the emerging need for Drone Powered Business Solutions (DPBS) across the United Arab Emirates’ various industries. As the country’s sectors work towards the digital transformation visions of the UAE leadership, drone solutions are being implemented in an array of use cases such as on construction sites and in the monitoring of commercial and non-commercial flights in Dubai. In collaboration with Exponent Technology Services, du’s DaaS platform will power a new variety of applications to ensure Dubai reaches the intended milestone of becoming the happiest and smartest city in the world. Marwan Bin Dalmook, Senior Vice President - ICT Solutions & Smart City Operations, du, said: “From traffic management, to surveillance and constriction site management, drones are becoming instrumental in providing happier, safer environments for all. With the announcement of our DaaS in conjunction with partner Exponent Technology Solutions, du is proud to be innovating new bespoke breakthroughs that will empower the enterprise ecosystem and enable greater digital capabilities through the intelligent application of next generation technology and solutions.”
SEARCHINFORM ALONG WITH OTHER FIRMS TAKES PART AT GITEX 2019
SearchInform will be among 250 tech world representatives who will share groundbreaking concepts with the participants and contribute their expertise and projects to the world’s future. In Dubai the company will present the Risk Monitor solution – an innovative solution of employee monitoring and internal threat mitigation. The system controls all the data transfer channels, examines the information stored and moved within the company’s network, captures all the processes
and employee activities, and analyzes their behavior. “Nowadays we see a great interest in corporate fraud protection, that’s why we decided to participate in GITEX Technology Week. We actively work with clients around the world, and solving day-to-day tasks of corporate fraud prevention and employee monitoring has turned into an international experience that we want to share. The goal of employee monitoring and risk detection is to identify
weak spots that could be detrimental to a company. Although accidental losses due to human activities are often unanticipated, there are methods that can protect a company against internal incidents. Our expert solution helps to see the actual situation and stay informed of events that need to be analyzed, making corporate fraud predictable and financial losses preventable, so your business is safeguarded in advance”, comments Sergey Ozhegov, CEO of SearchInform.
INNOVATIVE ITALIAN TECH AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK The Italian Trade Agency’s Pavilion at the 39th GITEX Technology Week in Dubai was officially opened earlier today by His Excellency Nicola Lener, Italian Ambassador to the UAE; Her Excellency Valentina Setta, Consul General of Italy in Dubai and Gianpaolo Bruno, Italian Trade Commissioner to the UAE, Oman and Pakistan. Eleven Italian start-ups have started the week strong meeting many potential partners. The UAE Ministry of Economy has recently signed an MoU with the Italian Government to engage in activities to promote start-up ecosystems
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in both countries through cross fertilisation and networking. Eleven Italian start-ups have started the week strong, showcasing their products and meeting potential partners at the opening day of the 39 th GITEX Technology Week in Dubai. The Italian Trade Agency’s Pavilion was officially opened earlier today by His Excellency Nicola Lener, Italian Ambassador to the UAE; Her Excellency Valentina Setta, Consul General of Italy in
Dubai and Gianpaolo Bruno, Italian Trade Commissioner to the UAE, Oman and Pakistan. The UAE Ministry of Economy has recently signed an MoU with the Italian Government to engage in activities to promote start-up ecosystems in both countries through cross fertilisation and networking. A selection of Italy’s promising tech start-ups are showcasing solutions that will help a range of sectors from teachers and parents in education, to VR production of videogames, to online shopping.
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TREND MICRO TO DEMONSTRATE THE ART OF CYBERSECURITY AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK 2019 Cybersecurity will be a major topic of discussion at GITEX, the leading technology event in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, especially as cyberattacks caused USD 12.5 billion in losses from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, Trend Micro blocked 48 billion threats and discovered 200 new ransomware families.
To bring these cyber-threats to life, Trend Micro has commissioned six artists to process and interpret cybersecurity data. Rather than at a standalone stand, Trend Micro will showcase these artistic interpretations specialized pods at six different partners’ stands, as well as on
screens between demos. “As the cybersecurity landscape becomes more complex, cyber-threats can be abstract to understand and ugly to confront when they strike,” said Dr. Moataz Bin Ali, Vice President, Trend Micro, Middle East and North
Africa. “However, with our GITEX theme of ‘The Art of Cybersecurity,’ we aim to show how cybersecurity can be beautiful when organizations literally see how siloed threats can be put together to show a big picture, helping organizations stay one step ahead of cyber-threats.”
VEEAM TO DRIVE MIDDLE EAST BUSINESSES TO ADOPT CLOUD DATA MANAGEMENT AT GITEX 2019 Talking about the company’s participation at GITEX, Claude Schuck, regional manager, Middle East at Veeam said: “As the importance of data has grown to drive every aspect of the digital business, so has the need for solutions that ensure information is available at any time, no matter where
it resides. There is a new expectation for data in today’s enterprise:Data must move to a higher state of intelligence and be able to anticipate need and meet demand. Data must also move securely across multicloud infrastructures andmeet the expectations of the mobile, always-on world.”
“Given our leadership position and market leading technologies, GITEX is an opportunity to turn the spotlight on the criticality of Cloud Data Management,” continued Schuck. “CIOs and IT managers need to understand that ensuring instant and reliable data availability requires an
evolution in how it is managed from policy-driven to behaviordriven, leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to enable data to back up autonomously, migrate to the right location based on the business need and to secure itself during anomalous activity.”
ABU DHABI DIGITAL AUTHORITY UNVEILS NEW DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM TO ENABLE EXCELLENCE IN FUTURE GOVERNMENT SERVICES The Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (ADDA) has unveiled its new Abu Dhabi Data Management Program (DMP), a new data-centric open data platform and open data sharing ecosystem, during its participation at the 39th edition of GITEX Technology Week, the biggest tech show in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA), which runs from October 6 to October 10, 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). The Data Management Platform, which falls within the Open Data initiative under Abu Dhabi’s Development Accelerator program, Ghadan 21 is envisioned to help unlock the high value potential of government entities’ rich and dynamic data sets-bringing the UAE capital’s digitization agenda into full realization. Ghadan 21 is designed to fulfil the government’s vision of a diversified knowledge based economy making Abu Dhabi one of the best places in the world to do business, invest, live, work and visit. H.E. Dr Rauda Al-Saadi, Director General, ADDA, said, “We are proud to announce the ADD’s new Data Management Platform, which reflects the robust roadmap that we have created to help implement our Abu Dhabi Data Strategy. The roll out of the DMP initiative will fully enable the effective and efficient delivery of future government services, which in turn, will serve as a precedent for excellence from government entities wanting to build a better quality of life for Abu Dhabi citizens, residents, visitors, and investors.”
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RIVERBED TO SHOWCASE HOW ENTERPRISES CAN UNLOCK DIGITAL PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL AT GITEX Earlier this year, Riverbed unveiled its new brand identity centred around ‘Advancing the Human Experience in the Digital World’. Highlighting how the official theme for this year’s GITEX – Synergising the Mind and Technology Economy – closely parallels this vision, Mena Migally, Senior Director, Middle East, at Riverbed, said, “While technology is undoubtably the fundamental enabler of business today, organizations must remember that behind every digital experience is a human experience. Organizations must therefore maximize digital performance to enable more compelling human experiences – for employees, customers, partners, patients or citizens.” “Riverbed isn’t just a technology provider, but rather an enabler of digital transformation for the modern enterprise. At GITEX, we look forward to engaging with attendees and demonstrating how the solutions we provide can maximize digital performance, eliminate ‘IT slowness’ and thus enable superior digital experiences – for customers as well as employees,” added Migally.
THREATQUOTIENT MAKES IT DEBUT “With threat intelligence as an organisation’s foundational element, ThreatQ makes security operations more efficient and effective. Every company has its own unique environments and faces different threats, which is why ThreatQ empowers organisations to set their own specific controls for prioritising the threat intelligence that is most relevant to them,” said Anthony Perridge, VP of International at ThreatQuotient. “ThreatQ acts as the heart of an organisation’s defense system, able to integrate with all security tools that need to work in unison - such as orchestration tools, SIEMs, network security, endpoint software, multiple intel feeds and other processes and we are excited to have a platform like GITEX to showcase our product and solutions to our regional customers and partners.” At GITEX, ThreatQuotient will educate customers and partners on why large and small threat intelligence teams would benefit by using ThreatQ to apply customer-defined scoring of intelligence, quickly deploy threat data to existing sensor grids, and cornerstone workflows to focus on time to detect (TTD) and time to respond (TTR). Through their participation, ThreatQuotient also hopes to showcase how it enables a shared understanding across teams and tools within an organisation’s defense infrastructure and how by leveraging an integrated self-tuning Threat Library™, Adaptive Workbench™ and Open Exchange™, ThreatQ has become the foundation of security operations and threat management systems for organisations across the globe.
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TALLY SOLUTIONS SHOWCASES ITS NEW PRODUCT CRAFTED FOR GROWTH TALLYPRIME Tally Solutions, the leading international business management software provider, showcased TallyPrime, the company’ next generation business management software on the first day of the 39th GITEX Technology Week. The company showcased the latest offering at stall H5- 30 and will continue showcasing the new solution, as well as engaging with customers through one-on-one interactions and live demos all throughout the next few days. Built on a completely new architecture, TallyPrime brings with it newer capabilities, unusual speed and reliability, real time reports and insights, surprisingly effortless navigational experience, refreshing new look and feel and much more. The software is designed to capitalise the power of business data through real time reports and enable business owners to take critical business decisions with ease. Mr. Vikas Panchal, Business Head of Tally Solutions in the Middle East, said “Our endeavour has always been to provide useful, delightful and flawless products to businesses across the globe. TallyPrime is a reflection of our efforts in this direction. There are tremendous growth opportunities for the SME community across the world, and at Tally, we are determined on leveraging technology as a key enabler for enhanced business efficiency for them. Crafted for growth and designed to delight, the new product is a perfect companion for business owners in their journey towards growth.” TallyPrime is designed for even the smallest of firms to have a competitive edge. It helps businesses keep a close watch on cash flow and manage all their finances and inventory in one place. In addition, the software’s unique in-built error detection and correction capability mitigates any error in data. Essentially, it allows business owners to spend less time on administration and more time running their business. The solution is not just designed for business owners, but also simplifies life of tax consultants and chartered accountants as the software allows generation of VAT returns and audit reports at the click of a button, enabling them to file VAT returns for their clients easily and quickly.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO SHOWCASE ITS CUSTOMER CENTRIC APPLICATIONS & TECHNOLOGIES AVAYA AND MICROSOFT SIGN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO BRING CONTACT CENTER SERVICES TO THE CLOUD Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, and Microsoft today used GITEX Technology Week 2019 to announce that they will join forces to bring contact center services to the cloud. Avaya IX-CC, a next generation Contact Center as a Service platform, will be available on Azure, hosted in Microsoft’s cloud data centers in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The service will be introduced initially in the Arab Gulf region with plans to expand the offer to other global regions in the future. “Avaya is a trusted leader in contact center
solutions,” said Ahmed Helmy, International CTO Avaya. “Our partnership with Microsoft allows us to expand our feature-rich applications on a cloudbased microservices architecture and platform – giving our customers the flexibility in deployment they have come to expect from our brand. They will also have the welcome assurance and flexibility to run their workloads across multiple clouds.” The two companies are working to integrate the market-leading Avaya IX-CC platform with Azure. The Avaya IX-CC next generation Contact Center as a Service platform is expected to be available to
customers in H1 2020 with voice capabilities, followed by omnichannel features later in the year. “Through our work with Avaya, Microsoft now has the opportunity through our marketplace to offer enterprise-grade CCaaS solutions to businesses of any size delivered through Avaya and running on our Azure cloud,” said Sherif Tawfik, Executive Director, Channel, Alliances, Startups, and SMEs. “At Microsoft, it is our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Every application that makes its home in our intelligent cloud takes us a step more down that road.”
WESTERN DIGITAL SHOWCASES INNOVATIONS FOR THE INCREASING DATA DRIVEN DEMANDS OF THE DIGITAL AGE With a focus on driving innovation and high performance in demanding data environments, Western Digital Corporation, a leader in data infrastructure, returns to GITEX Technology Week in Dubai to showcase its expansive range of storage solutions. The company’s impressive portfolio on display will feature a wide range of innovations from its Western Digital® extensive portfolio of enterprise storage solutions, all the way through to a massive 1TB* microSD™ Card from SanDisk®. Western Digital’s lineup of offerings addresses these needs by delivering the increased capacity, highperformance, economics, and cost-effective scalability required to protect, mobilize, transform, and extract greater value from data. Putting the spotlight on infrastructure that is ‘future-ready’, the company will showcase its Ultrastar™ family of storage servers and platforms for DIY and software-defined storage environments. In addition, the WD Purple™ drives on display, created to meet the increasing demands of smart video solutions, will highlight the benefits of storage with high capacity, intelligence and great durability for surveillance.
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CDA will showcase the latest technologies it has adopted to follow up the development and quality of services provided to customers, in order to facilitate communication with them. CDA’s stand will be located within the Dubai Smart Government pavilion at GITEX this year. Gitex visitors will be able to learn about ‘Masar,’ a smart application that enables communication with registrants of its empowerment program. The application allows CDA’s empowerment management team to interact with customers and update them on training schedules and send reminders to attend job interviews and employment events. Besides, the application enables users to give feedback and follow up the implementation of CDA’s empowerment plan. Empowering people who are eligible for financial and social benefits is also one of CDA’s key missions. In line with this, CDA has identified financial empowerment as one of the best methodologies to enhance the financial security of low-income people. To achieve this, it has been conducting successful interventions, including training, developments; education and social support for underprivileged, thereby helping them acquire financial skills and aspects that significantly enhance their social and physical security. Thani Bin Jarsh, CEO, Corporate Services Sector, at CDA said: “In view of rapid technological advancements and the emergence of innovative technological solutions in the field of communication, keeping pace with these transformations in the social sector is a necessity and a right to provide to our customers. Through our participation in GITEX Technology Week 2019, we seek to identify the latest solutions that could be utilized in the field of social services and services offered to most vulnerable groups of the society. This will help us integrate these solutions into the services we provide, significantly boosting their quality and efficiencies.” “Masar application, which is being launched for the first time at GITEX, enables easy communication with the percipients of our empowerment programs and following up on their files and helps determine the extents to which the plans set for them have been completed. This will ensure that they stay informed and offers a greater commitment to the success of their plans”, he added.
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