Data & Resilience
For CDOs, CIOs, Data Architects and IT Directors.
With Saudi Arabia’s PDPL now fully in force and equivalent UAE and Egypt frameworks tightening, the separate DIFC and ADGM rules cover many enterprises there. If you hold personal data, you need to know where it sits, how it is protected and how fast it comes back. Most AI programmes run on data that cannot answer all three.
AI and cloud investment only work if the data underneath them does. Often it does not. The data is ungoverned. It sits in systems nobody owns, or in the wrong jurisdiction. The infrastructure was never built for what a production workload needs.
Two pressures are arriving at once. Regulation makes the location and recovery of data a legal question. AI makes governance an operational one. Most organisations face both with a data estate built for neither. If you operate across the Gulf, that same data has to satisfy more than one jurisdiction.
The first question is not which platform. It is what you hold, where it sits, who can reach it, and what happens when it is gone. The architecture follows from those answers. The vendor choice follows the architecture. Most data conversations in this market run the other way round.
An untested recovery plan is a document, not a capability. We test them in the Customer Experience Centre.
Recovery readiness
A structured assessment of your backup, recovery and data residency posture, delivered by the specialists who design resilience for regional enterprises.
Data decisions rarely stay inside the data team.
Security
The data layer limits what the security estate above it can do.
AI
Every AI deployment inherits the governance of the data feeding it.
Infrastructure
Replication across sites is a network design problem.
