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operations on the commodity level and
really talking business and helping IT
managers or CIOs to give value to their
top management.
Are you able to offer insight into
the data centre market or any
change in approach in this region?
We’re seeing high demand for high
density and High Performance Computing
requirements. Something is being done on
that insight and data analytics level that
generates that demand.
We see international companies
demanding space here in the UAE, for
different reasons. We see demand for the
data centre, but it’s not the same, there
are new features requested. And that’s
what we’re working on with our partners.
We have our own tier four data centre
that’s been running for a very long time
now successfully with 100% availability.
That is in Abu Dhabi but we have a
secondary data centre in Dubai. And we
are going to have more, to make our cloud
highly available.
How do you expect the data centre
to look in the next couple of years?
There’s a lot of talk about containers and
I’m sure as technology continues to change
it will lead to changes in the data centre.
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We’re also seeing different approaches
being taken in terms of cooling. It’s going
to be very interesting.
My background though is really around
programming and data. I think that’s
where Injazat will be really focusing. As a
CTO, it’s about introducing new products
and innovative concepts.
You mentioned some of your work
with government and healthcare
organisations – are you able to
talk about a couple of other use
cases for your technology?
Our ambition is to grow beyond
government and to really launch Injazat as
an international company. And why not?
We have a very good anchor client in the
form of the government and we also serve
a couple of commercial centres, but we’d
like to do much more in that area.
The key is being competitive and having
a value proposition that appeals to the
commercial sector. We’re really interested
in attacking that market very soon.
heavily in automation so that should
really make our price point competitive.
And we really value supporting the local
economy. I’m hopeful that we have a very
solid value proposition.
We know the commercial competitors,
we know their offerings and I think we
have something very special that is very
localised and really customer centric and
citizen centric as well, because that’s the
final destination. ◊
OUR AMBITION IS
TO GROW BEYOND
GOVERNMENT AND
TO REALLY LAUNCH
INJAZAT AS AN
INTERNATIONAL
COMPANY.
Why should commercial
organisations look to you for
these services?
First of all, we would gain the trust locally
– we have a track record. We’re investing
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