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Annual Virtualization And Datacentre Roadshow 2008 Is Here
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in October and running through November, IDC's annual Storage,
Virtualization, and Data Centers Roadshow 2008 will provide
an excellent opportunity to hear and discuss the latest trends
and developments in data storage.
Stopping in 16 cities across Central and Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, and Africa (CEMA), this event will feature presentations
from respected storage professionals, IDC analysts, and experts
from the main regional partners of Novell, Iron Mountain,
IBM, Microsoft, HP, Fujitsu Siemens, BT, Tyco Electronics,
Nebula, and Symantec.
Traditionally, IDC's Storage Roadshow provides attendees with
a perspective on burning issues of the day in the area of
data management.
Respecting differences in market maturity and storage technology
adoption across the region, this year the event will add new
topics, such as virtualization, cost control, power efficiency,
and legislative requirements for handling corporate data.
“The information explosion has put an incredible burden
on already taxed IT resources, generating increased interest
in both improved hardware and management tools,” says
Jyoti Lalchandani, VP and Regional Manager, IDC EMEA.
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“Concepts
such as automation, information lifecycle management
(ILM), virtualization, and data center consolidation
have emerged not only as means to handle data, but also
as methods for reducing costs, increasing ROI, and optimizing
TCO.”
IDC's storage tracker research shows that growth in
storage system spending in CEMA was 17% in 2007, while
capacity grew by a staggering 80%.
External storage systems accounted for a full 73% of
the total storage market value.
Midrange disk storage systems have demonstrated the
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with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) emerging as the major
buyers of midrange solutions.
The roadshow creates a forum that helps organizations address
a full range of data management issues, bringing together
data management specialists, CIOs, COOs, IT managers, and
IT planners and strategists from end-user organizations with
both respected data storage professionals and leading experts
from IDC and partner organizations.
From October through November, the roadshow will make stops
in the following cities:
Lagos -October 09, Istanbul-October 15, Nairobi-October 16
and Johannesburg-November 27.
Starting in October and running through November, IDC's annual
Storage, Virtualization, and Data Centers Roadshow 2008 will
provide an excellent opportunity to hear and discuss the latest
trends and developments in data storage.
Stopping in 16 cities across Central and Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, and Africa (CEMA), this event will feature presentations
from respected storage professionals, IDC analysts, and experts
from the main regional partners of Novell, Iron Mountain,
IBM, Microsoft, HP, Fujitsu Siemens, BT, Tyco Electronics,
Nebula, and Symantec.
Traditionally, IDC's Storage Roadshow provides attendees with
a perspective on burning issues of the day in the area of
data management.
Respecting differences in market maturity and storage technology
adoption across the region, this year the event will add new
topics, such as virtualization, cost control, power efficiency,
and legislative requirements for handling corporate data.
“The information explosion has put an incredible burden
on already taxed IT resources, generating increased interest
in both improved hardware and management tools,” says
Jyoti Lalchandani, VP and Regional Manager, IDC EMEA.
“Concepts such as automation, information lifecycle
management (ILM), virtualization, and data center consolidation
have emerged not only as means to handle data, but also as
methods for reducing costs, increasing ROI, and optimizing
TCO.”
IDC's storage tracker research shows that growth in storage
system spending in CEMA was 17% in 2007, while capacity grew
by a staggering 80%. External storage systems accounted for
a full 73% of the total storage market value. Midrange disk
storage systems have demonstrated the most dynamic growth
in the region, with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) emerging
as the major buyers of midrange solutions.
The roadshow creates a forum that helps organizations address
a full range of data management issues, bringing together
data management specialists, CIOs, COOs, IT managers, and
IT planners and strategists from end-user organizations with
both respected data storage professionals and leading experts
from IDC and partner organizations.
From October through November, the roadshow will make stops
in the following cities:
Lagos -October 09, Istanbul-October 15, Nairobi-October 16
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2008 Focuses On Leadership |
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Leadership, which has been variously
described as the nemesis of the developing world,
will form the fulcrum of this year's edition of eNNOVATE
2008, Nigeria's expo and conference on technological
innovation.
Organised by the duo of the communications consulting
firm of XLR8 and the Ken Nnamani Centre for Leadership
and Development, respectively, the theme of this year's
edition is “Leveraging technology for leadership
and development”.
It is billed to hold at the Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre,
Abuja on September 23 and 24.
According to Ambassador, J. U.
Ayalogu, Executive Director of the Ken Nnamani Centre
for Leadership and Development, technology has gradually
become very central to life and living all around
the world.
Indeed he adds, “modern governance revolves
around the concept of connected cities, a trend in
which government corporations are connected with each
other virtually and in real time, in a manner in which
they can interact not only with fellow institutions
of governance but also with citizens.”
eNNOVATE, he said, will examine
the feasibility of this near- ideal
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situation
as well as examine the technological tools that can help make
this a reality.
In addition, it will strive to seek more key stakeholder understanding
of the issues that are critical to helping to ensure that
government becomes more open and efficient and in so doing,
increasingly accessible to the governed.
eNNOVATE is an annual technology expo and conference that
has held unbroken since 2005. In that period it has enjoyed
the participation of such world class technology-driven corporations
as Hewlett Packard, Cisco, MTN, Nokia, IBM, DHL and many others.
This year, says eNNOVATE project director, John Awe, the line
up has grown to include such corporations as Multichoice Nigeria,
First Inland Bank, Microsoft, among many others.
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First
African Broadcast, Film and Convergence Conference |
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The
first African, Broadcast, Film and Convergence Conference
will take place at the Kenyatta Centre in Nairobi, 23-25 September
2008. It will bring together senior broadcasting executives,
producers, advertising agency executives, regulators and policy-makers
to discuss the challenges faced by the industry over the next
five years.
Speakers lined up include: David Waweru, MD, KBC; David Maingi,
CEO, Kenya Film Commission; Khalik Sherriff, COO, e.TV; Ian
Fernandes, MD, Nation TV's Digital Division; Toyin Subair,
CEO, Hi-TV; Richard Bell, African Telecoms, Media and Technology
Fund among others.
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Insurance
TechExpo Gets New Date
...Top Tech
Firms Declare Interest
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Leading
fleet management and automobile tracking and recovery solution
providers, Matrix, global leaders in insurance application
solutions 3i Infotech, leaders in corporate ICT training New
Horizon, are among leading ICT companies that have so far
indicated their readiness to participate in the inaugural
edition of the InsuranceTechExpo® event which comes up
in Lagos Nigeria.
The event will now hold 7th of October with its Golden Gate
Ikoyi-venue retained.
Matrix, which will be represented at the event by its Nigerian
affiliate, MatrixVtrack Nigeria Limited, will be coming with
its long history of partnerships with Insurance companies
around the world.
It will be showcasing how premium payments on vehicle insurance
go down when a reliable tracking device from Matrix is installed
as well as showing its groundbreaking tracking and recovery
solutions and how insurance companies can benefit from the
technology.
Undisputed leaders in application solutions for the insurance
sector, 3i Infotech, have expressed its readiness to showcase
its range of PREMIA solutions for the insurance sector. According
to the company, InsuranceTechExpo® will enable it showcase
the company's vast experience in the Insurance domain.
Also in a bid to create a sound ICT compliant workforce, leading
corporate ICT trainers in Nigeria, New Horizon, will also
be part of the companies that will grace the inaugural edition
of the expo. Since 1982, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
has grown to become the largest independent IT training company
worldwide.
With more courses, at more times and in more locations than
any other computer and business training companies, New Horizon
offers businesses and individuals can also choose from hundreds
of course offerings, delivered by experts, and offered in
a conducive environment.
Apart from those already mentioned, other major technology
solution providers including Wadof, Amsco Telecoms, Omatek,
and a host of others, will also be part of the expo. With
resource persons drawn from diverse technology backgrounds
in communications (including broadband), software (applications),
hardware and networking environments, InsuranceTechExpo®
is positioned to be the most ideal platform for the insurance
industry to experience 21st century technology at its best.
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CTO
2008 Forum Holds October |
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Commonwealth
Telecommunications Organization (CTO) in conjunction
with the
Federal Ministry of Information and Communications and
Nigerian Communications Commission wish to announce
the hosting of the CTO 2008 Forum and Council Meeting
Venue: Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton,
Abuja
Date: 6th - 10th October, 2008
Time: 9am. - 6pm daily
The Abuja Commonwealth ICT Summit '08 incorporates the
6th Annual CTO Forum, holding between 6th and 8th October,
2008.
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Theme:
Ensuring Effective rural Connectivity For A Socially inclusive
and A Commercially vibrant Africa.
The forum will bring together international delegates from
51CTO member nations comprising Policy Makers, Regulators,
Operators, Financiers, Academics, Technology and Software
Developers, International Aid Agencies and Civil Society Organizations.
The Forum will feature the following topics, among others:
Telecom Policy & Regulatory Challenges, Next generation
networks & IP Development, Mobile and Wireless Broadband,
Digital Broadcasting, Satellite Networks, Telecom Financing,
e-Governance and Software development.
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