All stories in ‘Interviews’
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to be reckoned with in the new era of cloud and [...]
A solutions company
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell outlines the company’s aggressive plans to grow its portfolio of solutions by acquiring more intellectual property and what that means for customers and long time [...]
Path perfect
In the second part of the interview, Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare explains the path ahead for the company across the entirety of any organisation. Q: Is there a direct [...]
Banking on Sage
Fernand Rasetti, COO, Sage, a software development company serving the global financial industry in streamlining processes for core banking operations, was in the UAE to attend the MEFTEC conference. In [...]
Security lockdown
Stephan Berner, CEO of help AG, outlines some of the critical initiatives regional organisations can adopt to deal with the ever-changing threat landscape. With the prevalence of data loss and [...]
Long path ahead
In an interview, Brocade CEO Michael Klayko said Fibre Channel is here to stay but the company has no “religion” for it. Brocade Communications remains a networking specialist in an [...]
Wired for innovation
Milad Gabriel, MEA Area Manager at TE Connectivity, talks about his company’s re-branding, opportunities in the market and some of key trends shaping the connectivity market in the region. Tyco [...]
New game, new rules
Alcatel-Lucent is a force to be reckoned within the enterprise space, says the company’s Sr VP for Sales EMEA Enterprise, Tom Eggemerier, in this free-wheeling chat with NWME. NWME: Not [...]
Gunning for data centre control
F5 is described as an application delivery vendor, but that term is nebulous to some folks and it doesn’t really convey all of the things that you do. You cover [...]
A rewarding job
When Ben Fried left his post as IT managing director at Morgan Stanley and took over as Google’s CIO in May 2008, he knew what he was getting into: supporting [...]
In pursuit of excellence
You are an industry veteran, who is best known for spearheading the Arabisation efforts in the region. Can you share some of your experiences with us? My experience as a [...]
Steering Cisco’s IT ship
NWME: What is the scope of Cisco's IT operations? Jacoby: We're headquartered in San Jose, but less than 50 percent of the IT organisation is located in California. A large [...]
Geared for growth
What brings you to town? We had our quarter business review here with our worldwide executive team. It’s a great place to be in and a great market for all. [...]
The power of one
NWME: In June, you have unveiled Brocade One converged data centre strategy and product plans. Have you been able to deliver on that yet? First of all, what we did [...]
On an upturn
Where does Riverbed go beyond WAN optimisation? You are a dominant player, but the danger is that you become a one-trick pony. How do you expand the scope of this [...]
