DELL is announced Sunday its continued momentum in providing customers in Saudi Arabia with future-ready technology. As technologies and IT are increasingly able to give businesses a competitive advantage, CEOs are turning more toward CIOs as the new business experts. Dell has worked closely with its customers in the Kingdom and across the region to ensure that the right technology and expertise is provided to meet current and future needs. Technology is seen as a key enabler for Saudi Arabia to achieve its Vision 2030 plan with the digitalization of government processes and procedures seen as a major accelerator. As the Kingdom prepares to diversify its economy, customers in the region will need to be a part of the digital economy to increase efficiency and productivity. As businesses prepare for future demands, Dell's goal is to avoid a split between new and traditional technologies by focusing on computer-centric and software driven models. By combining emerging software-defined data centre technologies and new infrastructure hardware designs, Dell aims to deliver a future-ready approach that will help its customers be workload-ready, virtual-ready, big data-ready and cloud-ready. This model is already proving successful in EMEA, with many customers taking advantage of Dell's expertise and offerings to prepare for future demands now. "We believe that one unified strategy for improving structure, workloads and experiences means better outcomes across the board. Our work with customers to date has demonstrated the strength of this strategy and we look forward to deploying it further across the region. Our approach to future-ready IT is evolutionary. You can begin optimizing with Dell at any point in your journey, anywhere in your IT set-up," said Mahboob Al-Abdulrahman, Deputy General Manager at Dell, Saudi Arabia. He added that "there is significant opportunity for Dell through the digitalization of government services to increase both efficiency and effectiveness, both necessary ingredients to realize Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030." Abdulaziz Alhargan, member of the Majlis Al-Shoura, said "the Saudi government plans to reduce its operating cost and extend its services to all its citizens. In order to achieve this, it needs to improve IT infrastructure, education, security, and application. Dell has proved that it is committed to providing high standard solutions and services. Also, Dell has invested in human capital in the Kingdom and employs Saudi nationals exposing them to a professional work environment." Eng. Sami Al Hussayen, Assistant Vice Governor and CIO, Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, added "as we enter the fourth industrial revolution, and build on the digital era, cloud computing, mobility and big data analytics are increasingly becoming a commodity. Governments in the region, and Saudi Arabia in specific with its 2030 Vision, are focused and dependent on digital transformation to achieve their goals. In this digital era, infrastructure is being dealt with on the cloud rather than individual parts -Dell is one of the few companies that offer end-to-end solutions. Today, the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) is dependent on Dell's infrastructure, blade servers, EMC storage and VMware virtualization." He added: "With TVTC commitment to grow from 150,000 trainers to 1M trainers by 2020, we are relying on Blended learning and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which we able to provide on our training cloud that we have built using Dell technologies."
