{"id":414846,"date":"2021-09-20T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=414846"},"modified":"2021-09-22T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T12:51:33","slug":"2021-online-cloud-conference-here-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/414846-2021-online-cloud-conference-here-tomorrow.html","title":{"rendered":"2021 Online Cloud Conference here tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudconference.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Online Cloud Conference<\/a><\/strong> will take place on Tuesday, 21 September and has attracted excellent speakers and conference partners.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be hosted online and showcase South Africa\u2019s leading cloud, backup, hosting, data centre, IoT, and security providers.<\/p>\n<p>Radio and TV personality Aki Anastasiou will serve as MC for the event and host interviews with the country\u2019s top cloud executives.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates will enjoy conversations about cloud services, data centres, storage, data backup, disaster recovery, and virtualisation technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will also cover IoT, cloud security, cloud management platforms, cloud automation, AWS, Huawei Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates will be given the opportunity to engage with South Africa\u2019s top IT and telecoms companies and learn more about their cloud offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The main partners for the conference are Datacentrix and HPE, joined by Vodacom Business as the key sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Dell Technologies, Intel, iOCO, Dimension Data, Altron Systems Integration, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, and VMware are event partners.<\/p>\n<p>The platinum partners are OpenText, Telkom Business, Lexmark, Synthesis, CipherWave, CoCre8 Technology Solutions, Microsoft, China Telecom, Rubrik, Acronis, and China Mobile International South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>BCX, Fortinet, Logicalis, Africa Data Centres, and Huawei Cloud are gold partners.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at the event are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jaap Scholten<\/strong> \u2014 Head of Group Hybrid IT Strategy at Datacentrix<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Cooke<\/strong> \u2014 HPE GreenLake Country Lead; in a panel discussion with Jaap Scholten<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sasidhar Parvathaneni<\/strong> \u2014 Executive Head of Department: AWS Cloud Services at Vodacom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Garith Peck<\/strong> \u2014 Executive Head of Security: Cloud, Hosting &amp; Security, Business Solutions at Vodacom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greg McDonald<\/strong> \u2014 Director of Systems Engineering at Dell Technologies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Vester<\/strong> \u2014 Cluster Executive at iOCO<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kyle Stanto<\/strong>n \u2014 Go to Market Executive at Dimension Data<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danie van Graan<\/strong> \u2014 Cloud Practice Lead at Altron Systems Integration<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Behr<\/strong> \u2014 Group Chief Digital Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee Syse<\/strong> \u2014 Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thabiso Hlatshwayo<\/strong> \u2014 Solution Consulting Manager for Africa at OpenText<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sydney Siwela<\/strong> \u2014 Executive: Sales &amp; 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