Oracle has extended its collaboration with NVIDIA to include running strategic NVIDIA AI applications on the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster. NVIDIA has selected OCI as the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer NVIDIA DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service, at massive scale. In addition, NVIDIA is running NVIDIA AI Foundations, its new generative AI cloud services, which are...
Stellium Datacentres has partnered with Schneider Electric to help it drive data centre resilience and efficiency. Stellium selected Schneider Electric’s Galaxy VM uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries to provide energy efficient, resilient, and sustainable power protection at its data centre in Newcastle. Stellium’s location in Newcastle has emerged as...
Nutanix has announced the findings of its fifth global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year’s ECI showed that IT infrastructure is increasingly diverse with organizations challenged with integrating data management and control. The research showed that the majority of IT teams leverage more than one IT infrastruc...
The LUMI data center has been recognized in the 2023 Data Centre World Awards for the Green Data Centre of the Year. The award was presented at the Data Centre World event in London on 8 March 2023. The Data Centre World Awards celebrates the people, innovations, and operations within the data center industry that have gone above and beyond to achieve outstanding excellence in the sector. It shows...
Huawei Cloud Summit Middle East & Africa 2023 kicked off in Dubai on March 21. Themed “Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service”, this event brings together over 300 government officers, cloud native industry experts, and customer representatives from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, with the aim of exploring how to make the best out of cloud and the vital role of clo...
VMware has announced the next evolution of the company’s flagship VMware Partner Connect program is live worldwide. Partner Connect is a singular, unified program for all partner types that is now more flexible and efficient, provides faster and simpler paths to progression, delivers more incentives, and rewards partners for both performance and capabilities. Through Partner Connect, VMware is emp...
Vertiv has announced that it has formalized a distribution partnership with iPoint, one of Bahrain’s largest multi-brand distributors of electronic, computer peripherals, and gadgets for individuals and businesses. With this partnership accelerating market presence in Bahrain and the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region, Vertiv will enhance iPoint’s existing portfolio with its robust power and IT...
Confluent welcomes the launch of AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, which will support the acceleration of digital transformation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The new AWS Middle East (UAE) region consists of three Availability Zones (AZs) and becomes AWS’s second region in the Middle East alongside the existing AWS Region in Bahrain, launched in 2019. It gives organizations even greater choice fo...
Lenovo has announced new solutions to enable customers to better solve for rapidly growing data management needs, coupled with new milestones in its enterprise storage momentum. Its new enterprise-class storage solutions deliver significant power efficiency increases and datacenter space savings to help support sustainability goals while new ThinkSystem storage systems help safeguard critical data...
Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“Digital Edge”) has announced it has entered into a partnership with Hulic, a leading Japanese real estate developer, to develop a carrier neutral data center facility in downtown Tokyo, Japan. The project, known as TYO7, is designed to provide much needed interconnect focused colocation capacity to one of the world’s largest data center markets as Digi...
Commvault welcomed industry leaders, experts and technology specialists at its Connections event in Riyadh. The event highlighted the continued rapid digital transformation that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is undergoing, with increasing investments in advanced data management solutions and technology. According to a recent industry report, the majority of organizations in KSA (70%) have made progr...
Castrol is working with Submer, a frontrunner in immersion cooling systems. Castrol’s cooling fluids are designed to maximise data centre cooling efficiency, offer enhanced equipment protection and can help safeguard against facility downtime by comprehensive material testing. Immersion cooling involves submerging electronic components in a non-conductive (‘dielectric’) liquid coolant. Compared to...