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#SICO IT Head Mohammed Ibrahim live now on #theCUBE from Nice, France #theCUBE @Stu http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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We started as a broker & now we are a full service bank HQed in Bahrain with business through the Mideast & Africa. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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We have a core banking system, a trading platform, serving 1,900+ govt and private companies. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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I started working for the infrastructure side in our shop. I have been head of IT for a couple of yrs. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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A wholesale bank has a different line of services. The services are very important to clients. IN the Gulf they happen manually. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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The challenge was to move from very traditional, manual methods to add more apps & focus on functionality. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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We are online in 7 markets & going for Europe & US markets in wholesale banking. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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With regulation we could not use the public cloud. So we are building our private cloud on hyperconverged infrastructure. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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We made the right decision when we selected #Nutanix for our cloud architecture. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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The traditional infrasdtucture doesn't give U the ability to grow, add more systems. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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With the #Nutanix hyperconverged we can grow, add new servers without shutting everything now. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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We can grow without interrupting the service & customers. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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We did a vendor selection, comparing technologies. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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When we started bilding this hyperconverged was new & therefore risky. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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But it was a risk we had to take because we needed our own private cloud. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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If every time we added a new system we had to shut down the business would be killed. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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IT is very challenging now. We have to be ready always to respond to the business. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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If U can't respond quickly U are stuck in the 19th Century. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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We implemented our platform in good time, more than expected performance, good support from #Nutanix. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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I cannot afford even a couple of minutes downtime n the market. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...
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Princes in the market are changing as the customer is placing the order. If I cannot give him instant response he will lose money & I will lose the customer. Mohammed Ibrahim #SICO #theCUBE http://bit.ly/2yhK2H...