Leading telecom operators participate in annual EMC Telecom Summit for the Middle East, North-West Africa and Turkey

The event is a forum for telecom operators to learn more about EMC's strategy to support the telecommunications sector and how EMC is helping the sector to address today's challenges.

The Summit offers participants two major tracks. The first, 'Driving Efficiency into your Business,' focuses on how telecommunication organizations can simultaneously manage reduced IT budgets and improve service levels, with a view to maximizing customer satisfaction and retention.

Sessions within this track include: 'Thriving in the Information Economy;' 'Optimizing Operational Excellence in Telecom Operators;' and 'Security on the Line: Ensuring Security in Tomorrow's Telecommunications World.'

The second track, titled 'Value- Added Services: New Ways to Generate Revenues,' describes services that offer telecom providers ways to identify new revenue opportunities, with sessions that include 'The Way Forward: New Value Services, New Revenues;' and 'Optimizing Content Utilization and Management for New Services and The right $ervices with the right return$ - The Consultative approach'

Bill Teuber, Vice Chairman, EMC Corporation, spoke to executives from leading telecom providers operating in the GCC, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Africa and Turkey, about EMC's approach to creating new value for its customers , and how EMC focuses on the rapidly-evolving world of telecom-specific solutions.

Teuber also highlighted EMC's ongoing commitment to the region of Turkey, Middle East and North-West Africa.

"The growth of digital information is relentless. What customers care about today is how they can cost-effectively manage this growth and create new value from it," said Teuber.

"EMC's Information Infrastructure technology, solutions and services enable organizations to manage, secure, and easily access their information to achieve IT efficiencies and reduce the complexity of their infrastructure. EMC is committed to working with our customers to help them design and deploy solutions that realize a compelling return on their investments," he added.

In his summit opening speech, Mohammed Amin, EMC's Regional Manager - Middle East & North-West Africa & Turkey said, "The regional telecom sector continues to experience an exponential increase of data, and therefore requires cost efficient and effective solutions to manage, store and secure this information."

"The purpose of this annual forum is to give our customers the opportunity to have open discussions with EMC executives from around the world and to exchange ideas about their challenges,- as well as to learn more about those EMC solutions and services that are focused specifically on helping the telecom industry to achieve its information management goals," Mohammed Amin added.