IDC and SBM Webinar
Investing in Resilient Infrastructure
The Foundation of Saudi Arabia's Digital Future
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Overview
Saudi organizations have already made the shift to cloud-based operations, moving fast to keep pace with Vision 2030 digital ambitions. But regional instability across the Middle East is exposing a gap most organizations have not planned for: how much control and resilience the compute and storage infrastructure underneath that shift actually offers. According to IDC, only 23% of Saudi organizations currently rank infrastructure resilience as their top digital investment priority, even as digital-driven revenue is expected to rise significantly in the coming years. For IT leaders, this is not a theoretical challenge; it is an operational risk sitting on the table right now.
SBM and IBM, in partnership with IDC, are hosting a webinar for IT leaders across Saudi Arabia to examine how to plan infrastructure capacity ahead of national growth, keep core systems available as demand rises, and build a resilience case that will withstand testing times.
Attendees leave with a practical framework for assessing their own infrastructure resilience gap and a checklist for strengthening control over their infrastructure as they prioritize capacity and continuity investments.
Key Learning Outcomes Include
A framework for weighing control against convenience
How to assess autonomy over your infrastructure against the ease of the cloud.
Where your data and AI workloads actually belong
Why keeping data and processing close together, and under your own control, is becoming a competitive factor.
Keeping core systems available under pressure
A practical way to pressure-test your organization’s continuity plans before a real disruption does it for you.
A business case template tied to Vision 2030 milestones
A proposal format that finance and leadership can approve, anchored to national digital targets.
Agenda
IDC and SBM Webinar
One Day Event
SBM Welcome Address
IDC Keynote: Building infrastructure that keeps pace with Saudi Arabia’s growth
Forces reshaping infrastructure strategy in Saudi Arabia: sovereignty, data gravity, and resilience. As regional instability raises the stakes on where data and workloads live, IDC examines why control and autonomy over infrastructure matter beyond simple data localization, why the greatest AI value comes from keeping data and processing close together and within an organization’s control, and what resilience really requires as more Saudi organizations rely on cloud-based operations.
Shahin Hashim
Associate Research Director (META), IDC
IBM Power: Future-Proof Your Business with IBM Power Servers
Adham Yehia
Power Servers & Hybrid Cloud Technical Leader – Middle East & Africa, IBM
IBM Storage: Unlock the Value of Your Data with IBM Storage
Amer Alatrash
IBM Storage Systems Brand Leader, SBM
Q&A
Summary and Close
Speakers
Shahin Hashim
Associate Research Director (META)
IDC
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Shahin Hashim
Event Sessions
One Day Event 11:05 am
IDC Keynote: Building infrastructure that keeps pace with Saudi Arabia’s growth
Forces reshaping infrastructure strategy in Saudi Arabia: sovereignty, data gravity, and resilience. As regional instability raises the stakes on where data and workloads live, IDC examines why control and autonomy over infrastructure matter beyond simple data localization, why the greatest AI value comes from keeping data and processing close together and within an organization’s control, and what resilience really requires as more Saudi organizations rely on cloud-based operations.
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