Cloudera’s Evolve Dubai ignites success

Cloudera’s Evolve Dubai ignites success

- Over 300 attendees from 100+ companies make the global event series a successful chapter in learning and applying cloud technology for innovation and sustainability.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Championing data management and analytics to deliver change, Cloudera recently organised the data conference Evolve Dubai in attendance with over 300 leading IT and data practitioners from the Middle East. Held at the Museum of the Future, Dubai, on the 18th of May, the global event series was conceptualised to accelerate cloud technology adoption to drive business innovation and growth.

Cloudera's industry survey further substantiated the region's inclination towards cloud and data management solutions, revealing that more than a third of businesses in the Middle East don’t use their data effectively. Therefore, showcasing the effective use of data was one of Cloudera's other aims through the organised data conference. Even though 72% of organisations in the Middle East store data in a hybrid environment (using both the on-premises/private and public cloud), 66% of respondents said that having data across different platforms makes data analytics very complex in their organisations, the research revealed. Regardless, a resounding 86% of organisations plan to migrate more data to the cloud within the next 1-3 years, highlighting