VODACOM WORLD, MIDRAND
THURSDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2018
Speaker
Diamond Sponsor
Liquid Telecom is the largest single fibre pan-African network and B2B communication services provider, offering international connectivity to telecom operators, governments and businesses across central, eastern and southern Africa.
Platinum Sponsor
When it comes to cloud computing, there is nothing wrong with having a competitive advantage.
IBM Cloud ensures seamless integration into public and private cloud environments. The infrastructure is secure, scalable, and flexible, providing customised enterprise solutions that have made IBM Cloud the hybrid cloud market leader.
Jai Menon (Dr)
Chief scientist, IBM fellow emeritus, Cloudistics
Dr Jai Menon is the chief scientist at Cloudistics, which he joined after having served as CTO for multibillion-dollar systems businesses (servers, storage, networking) at both IBM and Dell. Dr Menon was an IBM fellow, IBM's highest technical honour, and one of the early pioneers who helped create the technology behind what is now a $20 billion RAID industry. He impacted every significant IBM RAID product between 1990 and 2010, and he co-invented one of the earliest RAID-6 codes in the industry, called EVENODD. He was also the leader of the team that created the industry's first, and still the most successful, storage virtualisation product.
When he left IBM, Menon was CTO for Systems Group, responsible for guiding 15 000 developers. In 2012, he joined Dell as VP and CTO for Dell Enterprise Solutions Group. In 2013, he became head of Research and chief research officer for Dell.
Dr Menon holds 53 patents, has published 82 papers, and is a contributing author to three books on database and storage systems. He is an IEEE fellow and an IBM master inventor, a distinguished alumnus of both the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Ohio State University, and a recipient of the IEEE Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Systems Award. He serves on several university, customer and company advisory boards.
Jai Menon (Dr) will be speaking on the following topic:
Diamond Sponsor
Liquid Telecom
Liquid Telecom is the largest single fibre pan-African network and B2B communication services provider, offering international connectivity to telecom operators, governments and businesses across central, eastern and southern Africa.
See more at: www.liquidtelecom.co.za.
Platinum Sponsor
IBM
When it comes to cloud computing, there is nothing wrong with having a competitive advantage.
IBM Cloud ensures seamless integration into public and private cloud environments. The infrastructure is secure, scalable, and flexible, providing customised enterprise solutions that have made IBM Cloud the hybrid cloud market leader.
Visit: www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/za/en/.
Urban Café Sponsor
Synthesis
Synthesis offers highly specialised software development, consulting and integration services, and technology-based product solutions to banking and other financial institutions in Southern Africa. It enables its clients to successfully run on the cloud, perform business processing functions, meet regulatory requirements, integrate with payments gateways, trading platforms and exchanges, and secure sensitive information.
See more at: www.synthesis.co.za.
Business Matchmaking Sponsor
Cloudistics
Cloudistics delivers a public cloud experience with composable on-premises infrastructures to enterprises and service providers. Its software-defined technology natively converges network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a single platform.
See more at: www.cloudistics.com.
Silver Sponsors
Kyocera Document Solutions
KYOCERA Document Solutions South Africa are renowned for tailor-made document solutions that provide a perfect blend of premium products, software solutions and professional services that increase an organisation’s workflow efficiency, enhance employee productivity, minimise environmental impact and reduce operating costs, whilst focusing on overall value, rather than just the acquisition price.
See more at: https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.za/.
Netskope
Netskope™ is the leading cloud access security broker (CASB). With Netskope, IT can protect data and ensure compliance across cloud apps so businesses can move fast, with confidence
See more at: www.netskope.com.
Bronze Sponsors
Elingo
Combining world-class ICT solutions with local knowledge and expertise, Elingo delivers on your customer engagement and enterprise communications needs, irrespective of company size or industry sector. Harness the power of digital today and embrace a seamless connected experience with Elingo.
See more at: www.elingo.co.za.
Redstor
Redstor's data management platform provides tens of thousands of organisations with automated data protection and access to data whenever, wherever from a single console.
Unifying backup, disaster recovery and archiving, Redstor Pro removes the complexity that surrounds data protection whilst delivering the agility and insight that businesses need to thrive in today's data driven environment.
See more at: www.redstor.com/en-za.
Display Sponsors
ASG Africa
ASG Africa provides Workspace and Application Delivery solutions for the Enterprise and SMME. We deliver Applications, Services and Content directly and securely to your HTML5 browser, on any device. Let us breathe new life into legacy and complex applications migrating them seamlessly to the cloud at a fraction of the cost. Separating your applications from the end user device, enhancing compliance, protecting your business software and data from a potentially compromised end user’s devices.
See more at: www.asg.africa.com.
ContinuitySA
ContinuitySA provides BCM and DR services designed to enhance business resilience. Fully managed services include DRaaS, BaaS, enterprise risk management, work area recovery and BCM advisory. ContinuitySA is a Gold partner of the Business Continuity Institute as well as a Gold Veeam partner.
See more at: www.continuitysa.com/services/technology/cloud/.
Dotmodus
Dotmodus is a Google Cloud Partner. We help companies build their digital goals on the Google Cloud Platform. Dotmodus holds a Google Cloud Specialisation in Data Analytics and has been a partner since 2010. Our Specialist Areas include Rapid Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lakes & Machine Learning Model building and testing. Our Google Cloud Specialisation includes Google Cloud ML, Tensorflow, Google Bigquery, Google Cloud Dataflow & Google Pub-Sub. We do all of this on a large scale and we do it fast.
See more at: www.dotmodus.com.
Modac
Data Centre products distribution for Southern Africa, UPS’s, Raised flooring, Specialised Air-conditioning ( Down Blow and In-row), Environment and Power Monitoring systems, Data centre PODS, PDU’s, Generator Backup and a Micro Datacentre in a cabinet design.
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Sponsors
RSAWEB
As local leaders in the Cloud sector for almost two decades, we combine our specialist knowledge and real-world experience to tailor technology that suits your needs. We provide more than just a service, we offer solutions that help you to increase revenue, manage risk and contain costs so that you can succeed online. Having invested heavily in infrastructure, we have built a strong presence in South Africa and Internationally with data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and POPs (points of presence) in London, Europe, and the USA.
See more at: www.rsaweb.co.za.
TechnoChange Solutions
TechnoChange Solutions recognizes the importance of securing our global customer's data. Building effective systems, improving corporate governance, regulatory compliance, high success rate in strategic ICT project outcomes and enterprise risk management. We are the trusted IT consulting company by our global customers on CyberSecurity strategies, Enterprise Risk Management, public sector policy management, and data protection. Our team consist of highly skilled international management consultants.
See more at: http://www.technochangesolutions.com/.