Khazna Data Centers (Khazna) has announced its plan to enter Egypt market with Benya Group, the leading integrated solution, digital transformation, and ICT infrastructure provider in Egypt and the MEA region. The new USD 250M state-of-the-art data center will be Egypt’s first hyper-scale data center and will be built at the Maadi Technology Park, Egypt’s first specialized investment zone. With an...
BT and Five9 have announced that they are expanding their partnership to enhance the choice of contact centre services and solutions offered to organisations globally. BT will now offer the Five9 Intelligent CX Platform to new and existing customers as a managed service to help them fully digitalise their workplace through tighter integration with existing voice, digital channels, unified communic...
Honeywell will display its latest air and landside technology solutions that are supporting the region’s airports at the Airport Show 2023 in Dubai. The event is set to take place at Dubai World Trade Centre from May 9 – 11, 2023. As the aviation sector in the region continues to recover and grow with a return to profitability this year, operators are placing a greater emphasis on enhancing ...
As organizations worldwide focus on operationalizing their ESG plans, Cisco and IDC launched a new study, titled “The Role of Technology in Enabling Sustainability: A Global Survey of IT Professionals”. The survey, which sought to better understand the technology trends and best practices that impact sustainability success, surveyed 1,244 IT professionals in 12 countries, while conduct...
Omantel, a provider of integrated telecommunication services in the Sultanate of Oman, has strengthened its role as an enabler of innovation in subsea cable technology by participating in two key industry white papers along with Infinera and Jio. The first white paper details a novel technique known as Automatic Fast System Optimization which demonstrates the ability to recover affected services o...
Nutanix has announced the findings of its fifth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey, which show that organizations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plan to move their hybrid multicloud deployments from 7% penetration today to 51% penetration in three years. They also plan to swap much of their exclusive use of on-premises IT infrastructure for hosted datacenter services, slashing on-prem infr...
Schneider Electric has announced the 2023 first quarter results of its Schneider Sustainability Impact (SSI) program, alongside its financial results for the quarter. Coming just one month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest synthesis report outlining the dramatic cost of global inaction on climate change, Gwenaelle Avice-Huet, Schneider Electric’s Chief...
Global cloud infrastructure services spending increased 19% to US$66.4 billion in Q1 2023. While cloud remains one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT market, customer investments continue to slow in the face of persistent macroeconomic uncertainties. Market researcher Canalys expects worldwide cloud services spending to continue to be slow through the second half of 2023. Enterprises are re...
Finesse has teamed up with Aquila Clouds to provide businesses in the region with a comprehensive suite of tools to gain visibility into their cloud costs, streamline their cloud utilisation, and achieve financial effectiveness. Aquila Clouds has established itself as a market leader in Cloud Financial Management solutions by enabling businesses to gain complete visibility of their costs and utili...
Alix Leconte, VP for Service Providers (EMEA) at F5, explains how cloud-native functions can help telcos meet sustainability goals.
Oracle has announced that technology group e& is scaling its cloud footprint to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region to support its business expansion and modernize the business applications. Under an agreement signed at the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Abu Dhabi, e& will also explore migrating its global HR functions to Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). With a...
STL has announced that it has developed its slimmest fibre yet – a 180 micron optical fibre. This fibre enables the smallest diameters in cables with the highest fibre densities. STL showcased a next-generation microcable with 288 fibres capable of being deployed in 8 mm ducts, at the ongoing FTTH Conference 2023, in Madrid, Spain today. STL is amongst the first companies globally and the first in...