StorIT Distribution, the leading data storage specialist value added distributor in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, today announced that its participation in EMC Forum 2013 as a sponsor was a resounding success with its reseller partners and customers attending in large numbers.
Patricia Florissi, Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for EMC Sales and Mark Thurmond, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for RSA, the Security Division of EMC, were the keynote speakers at the event, which was held at the Atlantis Hotel in Palm Jumeirah on September 10, 2013.
“We were happy to be part of the EMC Forum, which was an opportunity for our reseller partners and customers to understand how EMC Cloud solutions could transform their IT and business. The Forum also enabled participants to connect and network with their peers from across the region. Renowned global speakers shared their local and international insights, case studies and surveys on businesses are approaching Big Data, IT transformation and technology skills. The event also discussed exciting new opportunities for partners, EMC’s vision and strategy for 2014, and its Cloud, Big Data, and Trust initiatives,” says Ranjith Kaippada, EMC sales specialist at StorIT.
The EMC Forum 2013 was a complimentary one-day conference for IT professionals to transform their businesses by journeying further into the cloud, leveraging big data analytics to extract value from their information, securing their data, and glimpsing the future in virtualised, software-defined data centres. Through presentations, interactive sessions and hands-on demos, reseller were able to expand their knowledge of these crucial topics, hear about the latest trends and technology developments direct from EMC experts and partners, and explore real-world case studies.
The event also saw the launch of the next generation EMC VNX unified storage systems unleashing the power of flash to address the high performance, low latency of virtualised applications. The new series VNX solution revolutionizes midrange storage delivering unprecedented levels of application performance, capacity, efficiency, data protection and enabled with multi core optimization.
