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Descon Engineering Partners With SAS
SAS has announced a new partnership with the multinational engineering company Descon Engineering Limited. Descon has chosen SAS as its trusted partner to develop an innovative and highly customised solution that enables qualified analysis and decision-making based on reliable data. Recognised globally for its quality, safety and on-time delivery of projects and products, Descon provides comprehen...
Hitachi Energy to Invest Over $100M for Modernization of Power Transformer Factory in Canada
Hitachi Energy has announced an ambitious upgrade and modernization of its power transformer factory in Varennes, and other facilities in Montreal, to address fast-growing customer demand for sustainable energy in North America. More than $100 million (approx. $140 million CAD) in projects around Montreal will include funding from the Government of Quebec through Investissement Quebec. This invest...
NetApp Releases 2024 Cloud Complexity Report
NetApp has released its second annual Cloud Complexity Report. The report looks at the experiences of global technology decision makers deploying AI at scale and shows a stark contrast between AI leaders and AI laggards. This year’s report provides global insights into progress, readiness, challenges, and momentum since last year’s report, what we can learn from both the AI leaders and AI laggards...
Vertiv Introduces New Liebert GXT5 Lithium-Ion UPS
Vertiv has introduced the extension of the Vertiv Liebert GXT5 Lithium-Ion double-conversion, online UPS for 5kVA-10kVA Global Voltage (GV) (200V-240V; Default 230V) applications. This expansion of the Liebert GXT5 Lithium-Ion line to 10kVA (from 1-3kVA) further rounds out the Vertiv portfolio
Microsoft to open first regional data centre in Thailand
Microsoft announced significant commitments to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand, provide AI skilling opportunities for over 100,000 people, and support the nation’s growing developer community. The commitments build on Microsoft’s memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Royal Thai Government to envision the nation’s digital-first, AI-powered future. Microsoft Chairman and Chi...
Microsoft Partners With Brookfield To Deliver 10.5 GW of New Renewable Power Capacity
Brookfield Asset Management, together with Brookfield Renewable announced the signing of a global renewable energy framework agreement to contribute to Microsoft’s goal of having 100% of its electricity consumption, 100% of the time, matched by zero carbon energy purchases by 2030. The agreement between Brookfield and Microsoft is rooted in the two companies’ shared goals to decarbonize global ene...
Infobip Launches Its First Data Centre In Saudi Arabia
Infobip, a global cloud communication platform, has launched its first data centre in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This step emphasizes Infobip’s commitment to facilitating seamless digital interactions between businesses and their customers across preferred communication channels, in line with the ongoing digital transformation in KSA and the region. Infobip’s robust platform and infrastruc...
Why data is the key to channel partners’ growth and transformation
By Rakesh Parbhoo, Global CTO and Executive Vice President Middle East and Africa, Westcon-Comstor Data has never been more important and is now arguably the most valuable currency in the business of technology. As a way of refining and optimising business operations, spotting emerging trends and identifying new revenue opportunities, effective analysis of data is a powerful weapon in any firm’s a...
Dataiku Empowers Generative AI-Driven Chat Solutions With Dataiku Answers
Dataiku has announced Dataiku Answers, a new way for data teams to build Generative AI-powered chat using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) at enterprise scale. With Dataiku Answers, teams can select their large language model (LLM) of choice, feed it their organization’s proprietary data through RAG techniques, and build tailored AI chatbots for all departments across their organization. Many ...
Omantel And Abraj Energy Services Sign Strategic Partnership
Omantel, a provider of integrated telecommunication services in the Sultanate of Oman, and Abraj Energy Services, Oman’s leading oil and gas service provider, have announced their strategic partnership. This collaboration focuses on the delivery of advanced Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Services, particularly in Talent Management and Performance Management. This partnership co...
Huawei Unveils Its Intelligent Distribution Solution At 26th World Energy Congress
Huawei has presented its innovative Intelligent Distribution Solution (IDS) at the 26th World Energy Congress in Rotterdam. Developed in collaboration with ecosystem partners, the IDS aims to tackle the electric power industry’s most pressing challenges, including high line loss, unreliable service, and the burden of managing new energy loads. To address these challenges, power companies are turni...
Hyperscale Data Centers Hit the Thousand Mark
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the number of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers increased to 992 at the end of 2023, and passed the thousand mark in early 2024. Meanwhile it has taken just four years for the total capacity of hyperscale data centers to double, as the number of facilities grows rapidly and their average capacity continues to climb. Synergy’s data s...