ISSUE 17
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Intelligent briefings for Middle East and Africa channel partners
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BUILDING THE
INTELLIGENT
EDGE CHANNEL
Osama AlHaj-Issa
Regional Channel Director, Middle East,
Turkey, Africa, HPE Aruba
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GEORGE SPAFFORD NIGEL TOZER MIGUEL KHOURI
GARTNER
COMMVAULT
GBM
EDITOR’S
NOTE
T
he concept of the intelligent edge
of the network is the dominating
theme in this issue of Intelligent
Tech Channels. According to Osama AlHaj-
Issa, Regional Channel Director, Middle
East, Turkey, Africa at HPE Aruba, the
challenge lies in moving compute power
from the centre of legacy networks to the
edge of the network. Not only must the edge
be made intelligent in terms of decision
making but must also be made secure.
Along with the digital workplace, the
edge of the network has expanded the game.
Merely getting users onto the network is
now insufficient to generate returns and
vendors are looking at making the edge
smarter, faster and more self-driving.
“The digital workplace is still our top
selling go to market, but the game has
expanded and the game is now on the
intelligent edge. All the focus is now on
making the edge smarter; faster. We want
this investment to be optimised and to be
harnessed and leveraged more, enabling
connected cars and artificial intelligence,”
says AlHaj-Issa.
If a connected car cannot make a
decision on the spot, it may be too late to
receive a decision from the centre of the
network. This is where the inflexion point
lies between legacy networks and intelligent
networks. As the number of use cases shift
the from the centre of the network to the
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edge of the network, the minimum mass of
adoption begins to gather momentum and
the migration to intelligent edge networks
goes mainstream.
Continues Gartner’s Santhosh Rao,
businesses can harvest analytics by
using sensors at the edge of the network.
Currently, 10% of enterprise data is
processed outside a datacentre or cloud.
By 2022, Gartner predicts this figure will
reach 50%. Gartner defines edge computing
as solutions that facilitate data processing
near the source of data generation.
In our Editor’s Comment section, GBM’s
Miguel Khouri explains how the private
sector in the region can catch up with
the public sector in innovation. Having
a visionary CIO at the helm, bringing IT
into the boardroom, approaching IT fro