Riverbed co-founder and CEO Jerry Kennelly was in Dubai recently to announce a key partnership with Dubai Police, and spoke to Jeevan Thankappan about how the company is gearing up to take on Cisco in the SD-WAN market.
What are the main reasons behind your visit to Dubai?
I am here to formally a sign a partnership with Dubai Police. They have been a key customer for many years, and one of the wonderful things working in the IT industry is the type of people you get to associate with; people who are forward-looking and doing some cutting-edge stuff. If you look at the productivity increase in the world economy, one of the sources of that is the correct application of IT in running operations. Governments represent around 20 percent of our worldwide business, and we sell large scale, enterprise-class IT products to the largest companies and governments around the world. Dubai itself is a forward-looking city and you have the advantage of not having to deal with IT systems from 1940s. Dubai Police have a strategic mission of providing the best services to citizens and residents, and achieving the lowest crime rate on the face of the earth, with the innovative application of IT. We are going to provide Dubai Police with enabling technologies and infrastructure pieces to achieve these great goals.
Do you think backend IT systems are ready to support digital transformation?
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