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AWS Launches Region in the United Arab Emirates
AWS is planning to invest an estimated $5 billion (AED 20 billion) in the UAE over the next 15 years Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its second Region in the Middle East, the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations will have even greater choice for running...
Rackspace achieves Qualified Security Assessor status for Payment Card Industry in EMEA
Rackspace Technology has announced it has achieved Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC) status for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) across EMEA (referred to as Europe and CEMEA by the PCI SSC).
Alibaba Cloud unveils RISC-V chip-development platform
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its latest chip development platform, named Wujian 600. It has been created to help global developers in the design of high-performance Systems-on-Chip for edge-AI computing leveraging the RISC-V instruction-set architecture in an efficient and cost-effective way.
Commvault receives from Gartner highest product scores in datacentre, cloud, edge
Commvault has announced that Gartner has given it the highest Product Score across all three use cases in the 2022 Critical Capabilities report: Data Center Environments (4.23/5), cloud environments (4.18/5), and edge environments (4.22/5).
NTT DATA Launches Innovation Center in Six Countries
NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, has launched Innovation Center in six locations worldwide in August 2022. These local centers, situated in countries where customers have high sensitivity to the latest trend, will focus on leading-edge technologies with the potential to become mainstream within five to ten years, aiming to generate new business through joint R&D with...
Vertiv Names Cheryl Lim Chief Human Resources Officer
Vertiv has named Cheryl Lim the company’s new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Lim will report directly to CEO Rob Johnson and lead the development and execution of HR strategy in support of Vertiv’s business goals. Lim brings more than two decades of experience leading human resources teams, supporting organizational transformation, and supplying data-driven insights for global HR operations...
Arab Financial Services relocates its UAE data centre to Equinix Dubai IBX
Arab Financial Services (AFS), a digital payment solutions provider and fintech enabler in the Middle East and Africa, has relocated its UAE data center operations to Equinix Dubai International Business Exchange (IBX) facilities in Dubai, known as DX1. AFS currently has data centers in Bahrain and UAE. Through connecting to one of the prime commercial hubs for international business in the MENA r...
Microsoft launches Azure Availability Zones to heighten competitiveness of UAE organizations
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Availability Zones, to be delivered via its UAE data centres in Dubai. The investment, which is aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of UAE businesses through the vital provision of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, reinforces Microsoft’s commitment to the UAE government, its business community, and its population. “Wit...
Eaton study finds gap between digital transformation and energy transition efforts
Intelligent power management company Eaton has announced new research on the relevance of the energy transition in digital transformation planning for power-critical businesses. Commissioned by Eaton, this S&P Global Market Intelligence report – The Intersection of Digital Transformation and the Energy Transition – highlights that although 77% of companies surveyed expect to transition away fr...
OneAsia to launch first immersion cooling solution for data centers in Hong Kong
OneAsia, a leading IT service provider in Asia for cloud-based solutions and data center services, has launched an immersion cooling solution starting this September. The first of its kind in Hong Kong, the new solution significantly reduces data center energy consumption and provides more reliable performance. It marks a groundbreaking shift for a heavy energy-consuming industry towards a greener...
Juniper Research predicts 1140% growth in global IoT roaming data by 2027
A new Juniper Research study has found that the global amount of data generated by roaming IoT connections will increase from 86 petabytes in 2022 to 1,100 petabytes by 2027; representing enough data to stream 165 million hours of 4K video from platforms such as Netflix. This 1,140% growth will be driven by the termination of 3G networks; necessitating the adoption of low-power cellular networks. ...
Fifteen major SA financial institutions migrate to Teraco, Africa’s top data centre
Banking enabler Direct Transact achieves seamless migration to Teraco data centre for 15 major financial institutions, ensuring no downtime or disruptions in the SA payments system and that the entire financial ecosystem gains a major boost in scalability, reliability and global competitiveness Fifteen major South African financial institutions have successfully migrated all their sensitive busine...