FADI KANAFANI
The NetApp data fabric provides companies an enterprise data security approach that spans their entire data infrastructure, on and off premise.
BIOGRAPHY
Fadi Kanafani is the Senior Regional Director for Middle East and Africa at NetApp. He has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry with some of the world's most influential technology companies like Cisco and Lucent Technologies. He has also held several senior management consulting positions. Kanafani holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA in production and operations management from Louisiana Tech University.
What differentiates NetApp in terms of products and services?
Industry analyst IDC named NetApp as the leader in All-Flash in EMEA, and Gartner has recognized data fabric as a top technology trend in data and analytics. This is not only a strong validation of NetApp's vision, but our innovation and capabilities also help customers better manage their data. Only NetApp can deliver a data fabric with consistent data services for data visibility and insights, data access and control, and data protection and security. We help customers modernize their data center by moving away from mechanical legacy disks to flash, for example. Also, NetApp supports customers that have distributed architectures to build their own private/hybrid cloud and lastly enable them to leverage the power of the hyperscalers by building a hybrid multi-cloud architecture to serve different types of workloads.
How is data safer with NetApp?
The NetApp data fabric provides companies an enterprise data security approach that spans their entire data infrastructure, on and off premise. Additionally, NetApp ONTAP helps build a zero-trust architecture to protect a customer's data across the hybrid cloud. The data is encrypted at the lowest level, whether it is at rest, moving through the network, or stored in the cloud. This helps provisioning of consistent data security policies across flash, disk, and cloud—with visibility into all customers' storage devices. As preserving data integrity is also a major concern while adopting cloud into a business strategy, NetApp created Cloud Secure, which provides total visibility into user access and malicious behavior. This allows detection of possible threats and ensures that proper actions are taken against process-violating behaviors.
FADI KANAFANI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Interview
Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori, Former Minister of Economy,
The ministry's way forward is to spur more international collaboration, whether inside the country through FDI flows and encouraging foreign entrepeneurship or outside the country through China's highly-valued Belt and Road Initiative.
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Dr. Mohammed Al Zarooni, Director General, Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority (DAFZA)
In addition to pursuing an aggressively innovative trade and industrial policy, DAFZA is working behind the scenes to boost Dubai's role as the world's most dynamic hub for global halal services.
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Hatem Sleiman, Regional Vice-President, Head of Network, Middle East and South Asia, Western Union
Technology, globalization, and migration will ensure that no matter the nationalization policies carried out by regional governments, the remittance spout is unlikely to dry up any time soon.
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Hamdan AlShamsi, Senior Partner, Hamdan AlShamsi Lawyers & Legal Consultants
With the expected increase of business in the region, Hamdan AlShamsi Lawyers & Legal Consultants stands ready to assist new or current businesses with the implementation of ideas and the protection of IP.
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Marwan Bin Haidar, Executive Vice President of Innovation and the Future, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)
Through its digital arm, DEWA seeks to disrupt the entire business of public utilities by becoming the world's first digital utility to use autonomous systems for renewable energy and storage.
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Will Goodwin, Managing Director, The Priory Group
Social media can lead to living a virtual life, with limited face-to-face interaction, avoidance, and often misconstrued reality. This may lead to mental health-related issues such as depression, loss of individual value, low confidence, and anxiety.
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Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, Dubai Duty Free (DDF)
One of the leading airport retailers in the world, DDF currently operates some 40,000sqm of retail space at Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport, reporting sales over USD2.029 billion in 2019.
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