JULY 2019CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM 19cXoinsights1. In the light of your experience, what are the technological trends and challenges you've witnessed happening with respect to the Data Center space?The Data Center will make Cloud computing easier. With Cloud computing, every company is getting a very powerful infrastructure without having the resources to administer it or even having the space to locate the servers.Furthermore, by using a Big Data platform on top of cloud computing, this technology allows us to leverage our challenge by gathering, processing and analyzing the data in real time.2. Could you talk about your approach to identifying the right partnership/solutions providers from the lot?We always first look at where the data will be located in the Data Center or the IAAS (infrastructure as a service) for regulation purposes.The second requirement is to choose the right partner is the SLA proposed. Depending on the criticality of the application, we need to be clear in the potential loss of revenue when a server could go down.The third of requirement is the type of server available; we dedicate attention on the CPU and the GPU because we have to meet scalable calculation with Deep Learning algorithm.The last is obviously the price which could vary extremely from one vendor to another. We have built a value generated framework that helps us build a business case and be clear on how much we can spend in our Data Center cost.3. Could you elaborate on some interesting and impactful project/initiatives that you're currently Overseeing?We are building an artificial intelligence engine on top of the block chain data. IAAS enables us to build this infrastructure very quickly and we have selected the best Data Center that can meet The Spine of Cloud Technology: Data CentersABED AJRAOU, EX-DATA & INSIGHTS DIRECTOR, LEAD DATA SCIENTIST & AI, FIRST UTILITY
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