United Arab Bank (UAB) has announced it will embark on a digital transformation powered by global technology company SAP SE, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) securely hosting the data. The adoption of RISE with SAP and deployment of various SAP solutions, led by UAB’s Chief Information Officer, Ayman AlQudsi, who has orchestrated a scalable digital transformation roadmap, will enhance the bank’s ser...
Canon Europe has announced that it has been named a leader in Quocirca’s Sustainability Leaders’ Report 2023 – an important market analysis which closely examines the actions that print vendors are taking to lower their carbon emissions. Within the report, Canon is noted for its market-leading sustainability strategy and vision, which is helping it to significantly reduce environmental impacts ac...
VAST Data has announced a strategic partnership with Genesis Cloud, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider for GPUs and accelerators in the cloud. Together, VAST and Genesis Cloud are poised to make AI and accelerated cloud computing more efficient, scalable and accessible to organisations across the globe. Genesis Cloud helps businesses optimise their AI training and inference pipeline by...
Low-carbon energy and services provider ENGIE Solutions has announced the appointment of Graham Easton as the new General Manager for the UAE. With over 33 years of experience in operational and business development leadership, Easton brings a wealth of expertise to the role. In his new position, Easton will oversee profit and loss, business development, health and safety culture development, lead...
Samsung Electronics has announced that 10 models among 3 product groups from DA Business have obtained ‘Product Carbon Footprint’ certification from the Carbon Trust. The certificate proves that the Carbon Trust measured and confirmed the carbon emissions of the products based on the global standard, PAS 2050:2011. “Receiving the Product Carbon Footprint certification for our home appliances is a ...
IFS has announced that it has appointed Sophie Graham as Chief Sustainability Officer. The role reflects IFS’s continued commitment to its sustainability strategy and ambition to accelerate the delivery of its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda. Sustainability is rapidly becoming a C-level and Board-level priority, in part driven by new regulations like the Corporate Sustainability ...
AVEVA has opened entries for its first ever AVEVA E3D Design Competition. The contest invites users from across the world to create innovative solutions with AVEVA’s E3D Design’s machine learning (ML) interface to address their organization’s business challenges. AVEVA E3D Design is the world’s most technologically advanced 3D design solution for multiple industries. It enables powerful visualizat...
Hitachi Energy has advanced its digital substation technology with the all-new SAM600 3.0, a process interface unit (PIU), to help transmission utilities accelerate the adoption of digital substations. The new one-box, modular SAM600 consolidates three units within a single device, enabling it to be configured as a merging unit, a switchgear control unit, or a combination of both, supporting diffe...
Equinix has announced a fully managed private cloud service that enables enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom generative AI models. Available immediately, the service includes NVIDIA DGX systems, NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Equinix installs and operates each customer̵...
IBM has announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire application modernization capabilities from Advanced, bringing a combination of talent, tools and knowledge to enhance IBM Consulting’s mainframe application and data modernization services. The planned acquisition will further enable us to support clients’ mainframe application modernization journeys, marking another importan...
SAP has appointed Marwan Zeineddine as the new Managing Director for its UAE operations. With more than 24 years of technology and digital experience and having held senior roles across SAP since 2012, Zeineddine will be focused on supporting the digital transformation and AI capabilities of companies in the Emirates. “The UAE is a hugely significant market for SAP, and I am confident that Marwan ...
Vertiv has introduced the new Vertiv NetSure IPE outdoor rectifier, to facilitate 5G rollout and enable operators to increase capacity in areas where demand for data is vast. These easy-to-deploy devices, available with lithium-ion battery backup, help to minimize power losses while feeding radios on top of towers and rooftops, common in these types of applications. The NetSure IPE R48-2000C2 is a...