Amr S Talaat [ 4/May/15 ]

Post date: May 3, 2015 1:21:55 PM

Jerry Guirguis interview Amr S Talaat, IBM General Manager Egypt, recorded at IBM Egypt office, this interview was exclusive for 96.5FM – Egyptian radio program [ Monday 4th May 2015, Melbourne-Australia ].

6:15pm - Our 1^st special guest tonight is Mr Amr S Talaat;

Hi and welcome

can we start with ......................

IBM opened it’s doors in Egypt 1954

$A3 million investment by IBM [ 3 year agreement with Egyptian government ]

Digital Sales Centre opened in Egypt 4^th Feb 2014

Cloud computing assisting 100 ISV – Independent Software Vendors

IBM Plans to hire more than 800 people across it’s network

Q1] Why would Egyptian businesses and largely multinational companies place their

valuable data on IBM’s Cloud servers ?

Advantages of going Cloud computing and storage ?

Strength – Accessibility, cheaper on Up-keep, ....

COGNOS /Informix, .......

Weakness – ?

Opportunities - ?

Threat - Security issues ?

Q2] Will Financial institutions in Egypt take advantage of this opportunity?

Q3] What about Health services in Egypt, what’s holding them back ?

Q4] Telco’s in Egypt have 70% penetration, with a population of 94 million, that’s a lot of data

to store by each phone and Internet providers;

Are current Legislations adequate for National security needs ?

IBM / SUN / Storagetek / EMC and others will benefit greatly by

moving clients to cloud storage,

Who will own these massive data ?

How will current Laws in Egypt, prevent these Metadata from being transferred to others ?

Jerry Guirguis

Presenter

96.5FM – Egyptian radio show

+61 400 718 817

www.innerfm.org.au

studio : +61 3 9457 1718

CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com ]