Veeam is hosting a forum for IT executives and managers in South Africa that will focus on intelligent data management.
The free event will be held on 30 May 2018 at the Fox Junction Event Venue in Johannesburg.
Topics will include discussions about multi-cloud strategy, understanding the availability gap and Veeam backup for Microsoft Office 365.
Ryan Hogarth, speaker, author and podcaster, will present the keynote address and will discuss the five forces of change: computing, communication, connectivity, collaboration and convergence.
According to Kate Mollett, regional manager South Africa for Veeam, the VeeamON Forum 2018 will enable attendees to learn how to capitalise on their existing virtualisation, networking, storage and Veeam investments.
"They will discover the latest cloud technologies and how to leverage existing assets as part of a comprehensive availability strategy.
"Moreover, the forum will act as the launchpad for hyper-availability, a new state of intelligence, where data delivers actionable insights to allow businesses to increase productivity and innovate faster to offer new digital services that improve how we live and work."
Given the growth of data, it is becoming more of a challenge to extract value out of it both from an organisational and customer perspective, notes Mollett.
"Today's data is very different from yesterday's data, as is the environment in which it lives. Every customer interaction, every employee task, every company operation, every business transaction leaves a trail of data that can be stored and later mined for insights, but only if the organisation is prepared and able to do so. Otherwise, the full value of that data is lost."
Being hyper-available will enable organisations to manage their data more effectively and securely, adds Mollett.
"Hyper-availability reflects the evolving reality of the importance of data in the connected business. It is no longer good enough to occasionally mine data for intelligence and insights or to do so only once a quarter.
"The competitive nature of business across industry sectors means data is in a continuous stage of movement. In other words, decision-makers are leveraging insights organically and in real-time as opposed to the more traditional and fixed approach."
In SA, organisations across financial services and telcos stand to gain immediate benefit from a hyper-availability strategy as they are typically rich in data, says Mollett.
"With hybrid cloud environments becoming standard practice, data must be able to securely and effectively move across these multi-cloud infrastructures. In Africa, mobility is an imperative and being able to access data while out of the office a given. Being hyper-available means the organisation can cater for these shifting expectations. And these do not only emanate from employees but customers as well."
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