Actifio hosted its first eCloud Summit

Actifio, hosted its first eCloud Summit in Texas, USA, which was attended by senior IT executives, leading cloud service providers, next-generation enabling technology vendors, and prominent analysts explored what has been called the “death of IT,” and the rapid emergence of new opportunities and challenges presented by the enterprise cloud.

According to Gartner, “By 2018, SaaS will become the dominant model for consuming application functionality for approximately 80 percent of all organizations. Aggregate statistics like these mask a complicated reality inside the enterprise. Executives driving this transition often wrestle with infrastructure that is increasingly becoming a commodity whereas supporting complex and strategic business applications. Most are looking for ways to improve the resiliency, agility, and control of the data that is the lifeblood of their business while reducing the cost, time, and complexity necessary to manage it.

The summit was also attended by Actifio’s Middle East & Africa representative Grant Amos, General Manager MEA, he says, “the eCloud Summit revealed exciting technology developments that have immense relevance for the Middle Eastern market. We have launched a significant drive into the local market and is rapidly gaining market share.”