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Thursday 14 June 2018

ELMAR Embracing Technology Innovation and Solutions

nior Technical Trainer Wes charging to the island. In- terprise. After the presenta-
Gruver of AWS Amazon, credible innovations show- tion, a panel including N.V.
Senior System Engineer casing Aruba are ready ELMAR Innovation Leader
Gustavo Sosa of Nutanix to be at the forefront of Ivan Ng, Dagoberto Her-
and N.V. ELMAR Innovation IT technology and devel- nandez and Tabare Alva-
Leader Ivan Ng took the opment. As mentioned in rez from EdeNorte talked
stage to share their latest Mr. Maldonado’s opening about the difference the
Palm Beach – Last Wednes- Networks. innovations, tips and ideas. speech: “Aruba is one of Nutanix Technology has
day, N.V. ELMAR along with the most advanced in the made in their respective
the Island of Aruba were Founded by John Mal- N.V. ELMAR has been work- Caribbean in terms of tech- companies.
the proud co-hosts of the donado, CEO of W.I.T In- ing with Nutanix and W.I.T nology”.
inaugural ICT Americas telligence Solutions, and Intelligence Technology The last day of the confer-
Conference (ICTA) in the co-hosted by Aruba and for several years and even Wednesday evening ence proved to be a real
Caribbean. For three days, N.V. ELMAR, the con- allocated a special unit marked the opening of treat as Alex Spoov, tech-
the Hilton Aruba Carib- ference spanned a to- to ICT technology at their the conference, with some nical director of W.I.T. and
bean Resort has been the tal of three days. During main office in Oranjestad. music, beverages and hors Technical Trainer of AWS
essential gathering place the 3-day event, industry With the new technologies, d’oeuvres. However, Thurs- Amazon, Wes Gruver took
for CIOs, CTOs and IT/ Net- leaders; gathered, net- N.V. ELMAR has been able day morning was the actu- the stage. The latter intro-
working professionals from worked, showcased and to introduce: Smart Me- al start with Nutanix taking duced Amazon’s core ser-
top international compa- exchanged ideas to get ters, Smart LED Streetlights, center stage as Gustavo vices in compute, storage,
nies like Nutanix, W.I.T In- ahead of the fast-paced SmartUp Prepaid system Sosa and Willy Brun talked database and networking.
telligent Technology, Ama- opportunities. Several big and Electric Vehicle Smart about Nutanix Cloud En- It was the first time a speak-
zon, Arista and Palo Alto speakers in the likes of Se- er of the multi-billion-dollar

company has ever spoken
in the Caribbean.

Other important topics of
the exclusive conference
included: cyber security, at-
tacks on personal data and
the recent GDPR regula-
tion in Europe. Attendance
was by invitation only and
proved to be a great suc-
cess. N.V. ELMAR is thank-
ful to have co-hosted the
very first ICTA conference in
the Caribbean and wishes
ICTA many more successful
conferences in the coming
years. q