CEOs of leading data centres in Middle East join unique panel at new strategy forum |
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Abu Dhabi & London, 5 May 2009 - The CEOs of leading data centres in the Middle East will for the first time ever join a panel discussion at Data Centre Strategies Middle East - a new forum for the region. The event takes place at the Injazat Auditorium Abu Dhabi, 2-3 June (www.datacentres.com/me)
Mr Ibrahim Lari, CEO, Injazat Data SystemsInjazat Data Systems
, Mr Osman Sultan, CEO of du, Mr Tariq Hussain, Chairman of Gateway GulfGateway Gulf and Mr Yasser Zeineldin, the newly appointed CEO of eHosting Datafort, will form the CEO panel at the forum, which will be chaired by Ghassan Hasbani, Vice President, Booz & Co and will focus on covering topics including growth, outlook, challenges, and opportunities for data centres across the region.
The Forum, which takes place in Abu Dhabi 2-3 June 2009, and will be officially opened by Mr Ahmed Al Sayegh, Board Member, Mubadala, has been designed to bring together Data centre operators, service providers, telcos, network infrastructure providers, managed services specialists, systems integrators, enterprise and government IT directors, property and investment firms, law firms, professional intermediaries, consulting firms, regulatory bodies, and supplier organizations to inform and update, provide critical insight and generate top level networking opportunities.
"This is the first forum that truly brings together key regional data centre players in the Middle East," commented Philip Low, managing director of BroadGroup. "It will provide executives managing data centre businesses and operations, enterprise managers and companies engaged in the sector, a unique opportunity to gain insight into new market and technological developments, in a networking rich forum across the two days."
Highlights of the 2-day meeting include a data centre Middle East CEO Roundtable, investment and growth strategies, carbon trading for data centres, cloud computing panel, Green Efficiency focus session, virtualization address, best practice debate and an architecting and designing workshop.
With an academy of international speakers, experts and delegates from enterprise user companies, operators and owners, technical specialists, investors, vendors and consultancies, Data Centre Strategies will ask vital questions about the latest issues and developments in the sector that impact the business, operation and planning for data centre businesses.
Injazat Data SystemsInjazat Data Systems is Patron of the event, which is researched and organized by international consulting firm BroadGroup with partner Orient Consulting. Sponsors also include HP, EMC, Microsoft, Simmons & Simmons, du, ARUP and Global Insulation. Industry Partner is The Colocation Exchange. Media Partners include Maktoob.com, Gulf, Telecommunications Insight, Middle East Business Monitor, IX News Search, DCS, Goingtomeet.com plus Telecom Deal Alert and Data Centre News.
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