Technology Magazine May 2017 | Page 211

MIDDLE EAST
Maintaining talent is important to Buys du Plessis . Dimension Data has a strong reputation to uphold - the company has been providing IT solutions and services since 1983 .
Buys du Plessis began in 1994 , and can remember Dimension Data ’ s humble South African roots . “ Dimension Data was a young company at the time , and we were going through changes in our country [ Nelson Mandela became the first black South African president in 1994 ],”
she said . Today , Dimension Data has 31,000 employees , 75 percent Fortune 100 clients , 59.6 percent Fortune 500 clients and a 58-country coverage . In 2015 , it received over 100 client , vendor and industry awards , and over 50 of these in the first half of 2016 . What services does Buys Du Plessis oversee ? “ Dimension Data focuses on four high level areas : digital infrastructure , hybrid cloud , workspaces of tomorrow and cyber security ,” she says . “ IT-as-a-service is growing across those four pillars … we look at everything from cloud advisory services that help our clients deliver against a clear roadmap , to delivering off premise , or public cloud services ; on premise cloud solutions and hybrid cloud solutions .”
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