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iDreamSky And SCCC Alibaba Cloud Forge Strategic Alliance
In a landmark move at the LEAP Technology Exhibition, iDreamSky (01119.HK) and SCCC Alibaba Cloud, a cloud service provider jointly founded by Alibaba Cloud and STC Group, along with eWTP Arabia Capital, the Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE), and the Saudi Company for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The agreement aims to synergize their efforts in vid...
AVEVA Announces Joanna Mainguy As Sustainability Accelerator Director
AVEVA has announced the appointment of Joanna Mainguy as Sustainability Accelerator Director. As Sustainability Accelerator Director, Joanna will focus exclusively on sustainability solutions and strategies to accelerate innovation that will help AVEVA’s customers to achieve their net-zero targets. She will look at how AVEVA leverages current market and customer analysis to inform its in-house de...
Pieter (Piet) W. Bil Becomes The New Managing Director for Kyndryl MEA
Kyndryl has announced Pieter (Piet) W. Bil as Senior Vice President, Managing Director for Kyndryl Middle East and Africa (MEA). The appointment underscores the company’s commitment to helping its MEA customers modernize and manage their mission-critical systems
BDx Secures USD $155m Singapore Loan For Data Centre Expansion
BDx Data Centers, the carrier-neutral data center platform in Asia-Pacific, has announced its Singapore loan market debut with a USD $155 million facility from DBS Bank and OCBC. After interest from several banks, DBS and OCBC signed BDx’s funding agreement on 15 February to act as the Mandated Lead Arrangers for this facility. The loan, which then closed on 20 February, is on a five-year term wit...
Cloudera Unveils Next Phase Of Open Data Lakehouse
Cloudera has announced the next phase of its open data lakehouse on private cloud that revolutionises on-premises data experiences for trusted analytics and AI at scale. With its latest round of enhancements, Cloudera has become the only provider to offer an open data lakehouse with Apache Iceberg for public and now private clouds, helping customers to unlock the enterprise AI potential of all the...
Edarat Group To Deploy Armada’s Modular Data centers Across GCC And MENA Region
Edge data center firm Armada has announced a strategic collaboration with Edarat Group. Under the terms of this partnership, Edarat Group will deploy Armada’s modular data centres, known as “Galleons,” across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and MENA region. This will allow Edarat’s current and future customers to integrate Armada’s full-stack edge infrastructure solution — which also includes t...
Ericsson And Stc Play Host Live HADO Cloud Gaming Demo At LEAP 2024
Ericsson is collaborating with stc play, the platform for amateur and professional gamers, to host a live HADO cloud gaming session at LEAP 2024 held in Riyadh. HADO, the world’s first physical esport that combines augmented reality (AR) with physical movement, originated from Japanese start-up Meleap. Providing an immersive experience, this unique esport can be played by people of all ages regard...
Vertiv Participates At LEAP 2024 In Saudi Arabia
Vertiv has announced its participation at the highly anticipated LEAP 2024, this year’s edition of one of the world’s best-attended tech events, which returns to Saudi Arabia with its third edition from 4 to 7 March at the Riyadh International Convention & Exhibition Center. Vertiv has participated in each edition of LEAP since its launch in 2022, engaging with partners, building new relations...
LEAP 2024 Investments Reach Record US$11.9 Billion For New Technologies, Cloud Computing And Data Centres
LEAP 2024, the world’s most attended global technology conference, unveiled a massive US$11.9 billion in new investments to support deep and emerging technologies, innovation, and cloud computing in Saudi Arabia and worldwide. The investments further consolidate the Kingdom’s position as the largest market and digital economy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for leading technology compan...
Alat And KACST Partner To Support Saudi Arabia’s Semiconductor Industry
Alat, a PIF company, and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) signed a partnership agreement to support the development of the semiconductor industry in Saudi. The agreement will contribute to achieving the goals of Saudi Vision 2030 to grow and diversify the national economy of Saudi Arabia and make the Kingdom a global centre for the strategic semiconductor industry. The...
Cloudflare Turns Spotlight On ‘Connectivity Cloud’ At LEAP 2024
Cloudflare has announced its second consecutive year of participation, and its first direct participation, at LEAP, the global platform for the most disruptive technology professionals, taking place in Riyadh between 4 – 7 March. The company’s participation will be centred around its connectivity cloud – a complete platform for regaining control of security and IT resources across the entire...
Pure Storage Unveils Strategic Evolution Of Partner Programme Built For The Subscription Economy
Pure Storage announced significant updates to its robust partner programme, delivering heightened value and performance to partners, tailored to their unique business models. These enhancements reflect Pure’s service-led strategy to enable new levels of scale, consistency, and preference for partners as the only storage vendor to deliver subscriptions entirely through the channel. Industry Signifi...