MOTOR OIL
A combined community of partners Motor Oil works with a range of partners and service providers , all of which it sees as a combined community dedicated to improving and refining the company ' s business . It is a high priority for Motor Oil .
This community includes VMWare , which Nick describes as one of the company ' s most innovative partners . Motor Oil has worked closely with VMWare on the company ' s transition to cloud technologies .
VMWare ' s work with Motor Oil has become a reference case for other companies , due to its success . This makes Giannakakis proud . " VMWare is one of the partners that contributed significantly towards our expansion strategy execution ," enthuses Giannakakis .
Other key partners include a global leader in broad , integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions , Fortinet , which works with Motor Oil on security regarding the company ’ s retail outlets . “ To give you some context , we are one of the biggest retailers in this part of the world , with approximately
“ THERE IS ALSO A LOT TO BE PROUD OF THE WORK WE ’ VE DONE LAUNCHING ONE OF THE LARGEST EV CHARGING SOLUTIONS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD ”
1,500 outlets ,” says Giannakakis . “ We ’ ve been focused on expanding the services and goods in this area , and this involves scalability and , of course , security aspects , which are a key element of everything we do . And Fortinet is exactly the partner we need to allow us to do that .”
As result of an RFP process during 2022 and a technical evaluation of the best available technologies and vendors globally , MOH decided to strategically be partnered with Fortinet for the implementation of a wide-range SD-Branch project at MOH , taking advantage of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution , multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) & WiFi technologies . There are many benefits for MOH from this project and Fortinet ; however , some of the most prominent ones are the increased availability and performance of their branches ’ communication paths & interaction with their central datacentres & applications , increased security at their Edge infrastructure , significant reduction at future OpEx and being able to cover the IoT challenges by dynamic detection , segmentation , and protection ! Last but not least , all provided edge solutions are future-proof ready and easily expandable and adjustable for zero trust network access ( ZTNA ) & secure access service edge ( SASE ). Motor Oil also lists Microsoft as a key partner , providing a wide range of services including machine learning and cloud infrastructure , in addition to the Greek telecoms company Nova , with which Motor Oil has a strategic alliance .
“ I truly believe that telco companies with large ICT programs are key partners that will enable us to achieve our ambitious goals ,” says Giannakakis .
NIKOS GIANNAKAKIS GROUP CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER , MOTOR OIL sustainabilitymag . com 97