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New Google Cloud Region Opens In Doha
Google Cloud has announced the opening of its Doha cloud region at an official launch event attended by ministers from the Qatari Cabinet and executives from leading Qatari businesses, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and Qatar Free Zone Authority (QFZ). The new cloud region will meet growing demand for cloud services in Qatar and the Middle ...
Lenovo And Al Hathboor Bikal.ai To Build Sustainable Data Center At SRTIP
Lenovo signed a new agreement with Al Hathboor Bikal.ai, to provide public and private sector customers with cutting-edge high performance cloud computing systems to support advanced digital transformation projects which
Africa Data Centres, LINX To Explore Digital Growth In Africa
Africa Data Centres has formed a strategic partnership with The London Internet Exchange (LINX) to explore growth and opportunities in current and new markets across the continent Africa.
NTT To Spend $11bn On Data Centers Over Five Years
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone will invest 8 trillion yen ($59 billion) over five years in artificial intelligence, data centers and other growth areas under a plan announced Friday. The 8 trillion yen is part of the 12 trillion yen in total spending under this medium-term plan. At least 1.5 trillion yen goes toward expanding and upgrading data centers. The digital business, which includes AI and ...
Nutanix Announces Cloud To Edge Management Solution
Nutanix has announced Nutanix Central, a cloud-delivered solution that provides a single console for visibility, monitoring, and management across public cloud, on-premises, hosted or edge infrastructure. This will extend the universal cloud operating model of the Nutanix Cloud Platform to break down silos and simplify consistently managing apps and data anywhere. Most organizations today are stru...
Four Trends Shaping the Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infrastructure
Gartner has highlighted four trends impacting cloud, data center and edge infrastructure in 2023, as infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams pivot to support new technologies and ways of working during a year of economic uncertainty. Paul Delory, VP Analyst at Gartner says, “In the current economic climate, the biggest problem companies face in 2023 may not be IT infrastructure. I&O team...
Liquid Dataport Connects Mombasa & Johannesburg with Fibre Links
Liquid Dataport, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has announced it has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg. This new route, including a breakthrough and unique fibre link across DRC between Goma and Kananga, provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud...
Nutanix Announces Vision For Hybrid Multicloud Platform-As-A-Service
Nutanix announced Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver a portfolio of data-centric Platform as a Service (PaaS) level services available natively anywhere – including on Nutanix or on native public cloud. With a vision of decoupling the application and its data from the underlying infrastructure, Project Beacon aims to enable developers to build applications once and run them anywhere. A...
Emirates NBD Collaborates With Microsoft To Drive Sustainability
Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enter a sustainability and innovation focused collaboration with Microsoft. The initiatives will be built on the back of the parties’ recent collaborative effort – the digital partnership and technology operating model that brought the bank a step towards f...
Nutanix Appoints Raif Abou Diab As Country Manager For UAE, Oman, Pakistan And Yemen
Nutanix has announced the appointment of Raif Abou Diab as Country Manager for UAE, Oman, Pakistan and Yemen. In his role, Raif is responsible for ensuring strong business growth and excellence of operations across the region, leveraging Nutanix’s globally renowned expertise to meet the aspirations of government bodies and private sector organizations. With over 2 decades of experience in Informat...
Gen Z The Worst Culprits For Data Hoarding In UAE
Veritas Technologies has released results from a survey “In the Cloud, Out of Mind”, revealing that the environmentally aware Generation Z is not necessarily conscious of how their personal digital footprint from online accounts and applications is negatively impacting the environment. Over half of the data stored in data centres by businesses is waste data. Unwittingly contributing to this are th...
Kao Data Announces 40MW Data Centre In Manchester
Kao Data has announced a new 40 megawatt (MW) data centre in Manchester, UK. Following the acquisition of two new data centres last year, the move represents the next phase in the continued expansion of the Kao Data platform, with Manchester named as the first of its new Tier II locations in Europe. The latest phase of Kao Data’s platform expansion has seen the company secure a 39,000m2 ex-i...