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Show dates: 18-22 October 2015, Dubai World Trade Centre

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AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK

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Exhibition hours: 10am -7pm

GUEST SPEAKERS LAUD DIGITAL HYPE

Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas

Global CIOs urged Middle East enterprises to recruit higher level strategists to drive digital transformations, during GITEX Technology Week 2015’s conferences programme.

As the Internet of Things era advances in the Middle East, Frost & Sullivan predicts there will be 50 billion global connected devices by 2020, spawning new services, data streams, and control over customer and supplier products.

However, Middle East enterprises face increasingly complex business processes. Global and regional experts have debated how best to embrace digital disruption at the GTX Ignite conference and GTX Innovation Tech Talks, free to attend sessions with over 100 sessions and 150-plus global futurists.

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CommVault releases Simpana 11

Michiel Van Der Crone, CTO of CommVault EMEA

Data management company, CommVault has released the latest version of its flagship product Simpana with new and beefed-up features.

“We have announced Simpana 11 today and what we want to with this latest version is to make sure that we stay relevant to customers in terms of data and information management.

We want to expand our values and we will continue to add new functionalities and features to the newest release of Simpana,” says Michiel Van Der Crone, CTO of CommVault EMEA.

He says with the release of Simpana 11, Commvault is moving away from the traditional approach to backup. “Over time, data management and backup have been seen as a kind of life insurance policy, and you only see its value when something bad happens. We want to move away from that mindset and move into a way where we can reduce the backup window and make sure people can restore in any point in time and have their data available. CIOs and IT 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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WHAT’S INSIDE

Intercoil opts for Alcatel-Lucent Dubai Smart Government Department features MyID service HiTi showcases new printing solutions

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Hall - Zabeel Hall, Stand - Z-C20

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a tough challenge in the digital economy, requiring them to disrupt themselves or lag behind,” Jonathan Becher, Chief Digital Officer and Head of SAP Digital. “They need to simplify operations through realtime analysis of data from different divisions, such as HR, logistics and marketing.”

Chris Brown, Director of Innovation, Vodafone Global Enterprise, emphasised collaboration with multi-national companies, giving examples of how Vodafone has opened new opportunities and fostered an innovation culture.

Addressing Smart Cities, government leaders including Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas, Dr Aisha Bin Bishr, Assistant Director General, The Executive Office, Dubai, and Mayor Wade

departments have more business impact than they used to have, and they need to be able to add more value to business based on their infrastructure and data management environments. This is what we are striving to do.

“Another major enhancement in the latest release is that we have opened our platform to third party software vendors so that users can access the data in its original form even though it is managed by CommVault,” adds Crone.

CommVault, which offers singular platform architecture for backup and data management, says it doesn’t have any plans to offer point solution for specific use cases. “We want to be

Brown of the City Council of Wellington, New Zealand shared the key pillars for Smart City framework, and the power of public-private partnerships.

Supporting innovation in oil and gas and aviation, Michael Gibbs, CIO, BP and Dr.Jassim Hajji, CIO, Gulf Air explained how real-time insights can transform businesses and enhance the customer experience.

Oliver Bierhoff, General Manager, German National Football Team, spoke on how Big Data analytics helped the team win 2014 World Cup Brazil.

For more information on the 35th GITEX Technology Week – running from 18-22 October 2015 at the Dubai World Trade Centre - visit: www.gitex.com.

a platform that expands out in terms of functionality and coverage. In the new releases, we have also made significant announcements to backing up virtual environment so that users can access their data in virtual environments using interfaced geared towards particular users,” says Crone.

He adds that CommVault, which has recently launched integrated appliances with hardware partners such as NetApp, has no plans to get into the hardware market. “We will continue to be a software company but we see that there is a need for pre-defined hardware that is certified by CommVault to be used in specific environments.”

Intercoil opts for Alcatel-Lucent

Dubai-based global manufacturer Intercoil, a distributor and retailer of high quality orthopedic mattresses, has chosen Buraksys to implement an Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise data network solution that enables the company to provide a better employee and customer experience with greater network capacity and performance.

Intercoil has two manufacturing facilities in the UAE with over 500 employees accessing the network at the same time. Intercoil recognised the need to increase its networking capabilities to allow

employees’ speedier access to its enterprise applications.

Buraksys integrated the AlcatelLucent Enterprise solution with the existing infrastructure made up of a variety of network products, to achieve a network that can grow as the business scales new heights.

Tom Joseph, IT Manager, Intercoil said, “Technology is a competitive advantage in the hyper-competitive and constantly evolving retail industry. We sought out solutions that scale, easily adapt to our application environments and offer a rapid return on investment. With Buraksys and the Alcatel-Lucent

Enterprise solutions, we found the elements needed to meet all of our expectations. This includes not only an enhanced user experience but also a reliable and cost-effective solution for our three person IT Team.”

Baher Ezzat, Regional Director Middle East, ALE said, “Customers depend on Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise for our innovative network portfolio for its scalability and resiliency.

Intercoil selected ALE because of the feature rich solutions that not only met Intercoil’s current needs but also will cost-effectively match Intercoil’s business growth stride for stride.”

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Mobiliz introduces next-gen web and mobile apps Mobiliz is participating at GITEX for the second consecutive year to present and introduce its latest vehicle tracking system solutions.

By co-operating with new business partners in many countries, the company is gearing up to become a global player in vehicle tracking market with its brand name GlobeFleet.

Established in 2004, Mobiliz provides mobile tracking solutions including vehicle, personal and asset tracking systems for efficient fleet management by monitoring and controlling all mobile operations via Internet using the latest advanced technologies, and has exceeded the sales figure of 250 thousand tracking units installed in the vehicles of more than 15 thousand prestigious companies.

The company operates with its domestic brand name ‘FiloTurk’ in Turkey and global brand name ‘Globefleet’ in international markets.

It aims to become one of the significant vehicle tracking and fleet management system operators in the global market with its mobile tracking technology portfolio.

Dubai Smart Government Department features MyID service As part of its presence at the GITEX Technology Week, the Dubai Smart Government Department is highlighting its MyID service.

MyID allows for a single login to Dubai Government’s services and enables users to access more than 250 e-smart services provided by government entities.

According to the latest statistics announced by DSG, as many as 46,000 people have registered in MyID to access services from 13 government entities including: Department of Economic Development, DEWA, RTA, Dubai Municipality, GDRFA, DPP, DHA, Mohammed Bin

Rashid Housing, Establishment, Dubai Police, DSG, Dubai Courts, Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology and Land Department.

H.E. Ahmad Bin Humaidan, DSG Director General, said, «DSG is diligently seeking to provide the government entities with the infrastructure and shared services necessary for the public to successfully access their services smoothly wherever they are and round the clock. This effectively contributes to ensuring full transformation to smart government and paves the way for Dubai to become the smartest city in the world in implementation

of the initiative of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to shift to smart government, and in response to the directives of HH Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, to provide a single sign-on to every customer in line with the initiative of Dubai Government Towards 2021, which he launched. “ Bin Humaidan added, «We have announced the launch of Dubai Now- the unified hub for most services. To complement

these efforts, we are now working on DSG›s strategy to ease most transactions through a single window, using MyID. This is evidence of our commitment to provide smart and convenient services aimed at making customers happy and increasing their confidence in government performance.”

Registering in MyID service eliminates the need for customers to register with every government entity separately and have multiple login accounts. Customers can register in the service through electronic kiosks across Dubai as well as in some customer halls at government entities, and affiliated service centres, Dubai Mall and many other areas.

Through the website myid. dubai.gov.ae, the public can also directly register and learn more about the service and its benefits.

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HiTi showcases new printing solutions

HiTi Digital, Inc, photo image solution provider, is delighted to announce the new products launched during GITEX 2015.

P310W wireless ID photo printer is the modern, lightweighted design that enhances freelancers to elaborate their own creativity of keeping every beautiful memory. Crafted with less than 1kg and absolute attention to details by using high-quality photos, P310W

is a remarkable evolution of the original ID photo printer S420, with an incredible printing quality and supports direct-print from mobile devices or USB memory card. Furthermore, it enables users to localise ID formats and customise photo frames.

We are proud to offer our customers this new generation ID photo printing experience by achieving the perfect

combination of professionalism and multi-function.

P750L is designed to maximise your photofinishing performance for high volume demand by increasing uptime, shortening printing time, and providing multi-applications. It can be field upgraded to smart phone wireless printing, SD memory card browsing and printing with high speed up to 7.9 seconds per print.

P530D is the latest compact and easy operational rolltype photo printer, which is designed to give great flexibility and potential profitability on production of wide range of photo products. The incredible performance, duplex and wireless printing fit today’s

market trend - highly diversified photo printing such as photo book, calendar etc. Moreover, its affordable price is the best choice of flexibility and efficiency for users.

As a professional digital photo product and service provider, HiTi understands that the core values of the product are simple workflow, high performance, and affordable price. Participating in GITEX will make HiTi’s quality products and well-designed solutions more visible in Middle East market. HiTi is dedicated to meeting customers and market’s demands and is ambitious to make our products as the main stream of Middle East.

Health and happiness through technology

Hiteshi Technologies, the codevelopment partner of 24alife, is making its mark outside Europe, on to several other regions such as UAE, India, Middle-East and USA. 24alife is a full-fledged, well-being,

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health and fitness monitoring solution, combining medicine, psychology, nutrition, and sport.

The company has built a comprehensive solution with BLE HR monitor integration available

24 by 7 via digital channels appropriately entitled 24alife.

24alife enables the user’s sporting aim to track outdoor activities, nutrition monitoring, body parameters monitoring. A goal choosing option enables fitness phenoms to choose a goal and follow it, with the help of your personal program and tract the progress.

Also, 24alife has a fitness survey and training application to gauge user fitness through

a series of questionnaires. The surveys are created by trainers, physicians, doctors and can be marked as public or private for users. The responses to these surveys are tracked and send to the Admin and creators to understand what kind of training the user needs and suggest him exercises. The logs of these exercises are again traced, based on which fitness trainers will provide recommendations to the user.

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