International Data Corporation (IDC) will host an IT infrastructure event in Johannesburg, on 20 November, as part of a series of roadshows being held in the Middle East and Africa region.
It will feature presentations by industry leaders and discussions on the latest trends and deployments of infrastructure technologies among key IT professionals in SA. Delegates will also benefit from industry insights derived from IDC's 43 years of experience analysing ICT markets, says the corporation.
According to Jyoti Lalchandani, regional VP and MD of IDC MEA, IT users in the region are increasingly looking beyond the acquisition of servers and storage. They are instead gravitating towards a more holistic view that brings into focus the optimisation of systems, integration with business processes, and return on investment.
"Globally, increased IT infrastructure demands are driving a transition to new technologies such as multi-core processors and server virtualisation," says Lalchandani, "while the rules of traditional backup, recovery and archiving are being redefined."
A key issue to be discussed at the event - and of interest to large enterprise users with distributed processes and heavy IT investment - is virtualisation.
The roadshow is part of a series of events being held in the MEA region and follows IDC's similarly modelled small and medium enterprise (SME) roadshow. This event attracted key IT personnel from key end-user organisations in the SME segment, which constitutes over 95% of all companies in the Middle East and Africa.
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