> Why Operational Resilience and Digital Sovereignty Top the CIO Agenda - by Martin Lentle

For CIOs across the Middle East Africa, keeping systems online is the foundation of customer trust. As public sector institutions and private enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, maintaining this operational uptime is the top priority. In a complex business landscape, an infrastructure outage immediately halts crucial services, risks public safety, and compromises the user experience. Navigating this need for operational predictability is challenging for organisations operating in highly sensitive environments with strict compliance frameworks and data residency requirements.