Company Underlines Its Continued Investment in Saudi Arabia by Becoming an Associate Sponsor of the 2nd Saudi E-Government National Conference

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, 23 September 2010: Cisco has announced today that will be participating, as an Associate sponsor, in the 2nd e-Government National Conference taking place September 27th - 29th, 2010 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During the conference Cisco will showcase its evolutionary Cisco® Unified Computing System (UCS) solutions designed to help its customers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia develop next-generation data centers that unleash the full power of virtualization.  

The conference, convened under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is themed "Success through Improved Collaboration". Organized by the Saudi e-Government Program, YESSER, it will include a gathering of Saudi's top government officials, regional and global thought leaders, and world-class solutions providers.

Cisco's UCS comprises new data center architecture, innovative services and an open ecosystem of best in class partners. It unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy efficient system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity, help extend capital assets and improve business agility well into the future. Visitors to the conference will also be able to see demo's which demonstrate the direct benefits of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, formed jointly by Cisco, EMC and VMware, representing an unprecedented level of collaboration in development, services, and partner enablement that will help to reduce the infrastructure virtualization risks.

Tarig Enaya, Director for the Public Sector for Cisco in Saudi commented: "Pubic sector organizations in the KSA looking to increase productivity and cut costs while maintaining the IT excellence that provides their companies with a competitive edge. Cisco Unified Computing System uses integrated management to optimize virtualization, reduce data center total overall cost, and provide dynamic resource provisioning for increased business agility.  CIO's in KSA's public sector need to invest in innovative technology to increase productivity, protects their existing IT investments, and extend the life of their data centres."

As experts in the data centre, Cisco's support and presence at the conference will help to introduce to many of the Kingdom's public companies to the array of technology solutions Cisco and its partners offer.

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