Snowflake and Anthropic have announced a strategic multi-year partnership that will enable global enterprises to develop and scale easy, efficient, and trusted AI products, apps, and workflows powered by the latest state-of-the-art models. Anthropic’s newest Claude 3.5 models will be available for users to securely leverage within Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s fully managed AI service that prov...
Vultr has announced that NetApp has joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a partnership program consisting of industry-leading solutions enabling composable AI cloud services. By combining the capabilities of NetApp ONTAP with Vultr’s global network of cloud data center locations, organizations can now choose to use NetApp’s enterprise-grade data management features while leveraging Vultr’s...
Snowflake has announced its ‘End Data Disparity’ initiative, which brings together global leaders from across industries, and the data capabilities and collective power of Snowflake’s ecosystem — including partners and customers — to help address and reduce disparities in data quality, availability and access. As part of the initiative, Snowflake has assembled an expert panel of data and technolog...
Pure Storage has announced significant enhancements to its Portworx® platform, designed to accelerate and scale next-gen Kubernetes workloads for VMs, databases, and AI/ML workloads. The expansion supports growing demands for unified solutions capable of handling modern, data-heavy applications across heterogeneous Kubernetes environments. As enterprises increasingly embrace Kubernetes to manage d...
Databricks has unveiled a new Economist Impact report, “Unlocking Enterprise AI: Opportunities and Strategies,” which examines the challenges businesses face in adopting and scaling AI, and the techniques they are using to drive greater value from these investments. The report found the vast majority of enterprises (85%) are using generative AI (GenAI) in at least one function. But few (22%) feel ...
Artefact has announced it is working with Google Cloud to enhance data and AI maturity in the Kingdom, positioning it as a key enabler of innovation and growth in Saudi Arabia’s digital economy. The collaboration leverages Artefact’s wealth of expertise in data and AI and Google Cloud’s cutting-edge technologies to drive digital transformation within Saudi Arabia’s government entities and business...
e& Enterprise, a digital services provider in the Middle East, and Cloudera, recently announced a strategic partnership. Together, they aim to accelerate digital transformation by using advanced AI and data management capabilities to foster innovation and drive business growth across the Middle East. The agreement addresses the specific needs of regional industries and the deployment of indus...
Cisco has announced that it has been collaborating with the UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) to support Industry 4.0 (I4.0) adoption and development in manufacturing fields and to launch initiatives with national and international technology and manufacturing ‘champions’ and ‘lighthouses’. The initiative is aimed at driving productivity, efficiency and sustainability in the...
NetApp has announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat to offer new solutions to streamline and accelerate enterprise application development and management in virtual environments. By uniting NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift, this collaboration offers customers more flexibility to manage their virtualized environments more seamlessly on-premises and in the hybr...
e& Egypt has announced the launch of its new managed service for business customers, powered by Cisco’s software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology. The service is designed to meet the evolving needs of businesses in Egypt by offering them enhanced connectivity, increased security, and optimized network performance. This new service will enable businesses of any size to accele...
Kyndryl has released the second Global Sustainability Barometer study, commissioned by Microsoft. The study, conducted by Ecosystm, shows that while 84% of organizations place a high strategic importance on achieving sustainability goals, only 21% use technology to reduce their environmental footprint and shape their overall sustainability strategy. Since last year, 38% of organizations have incre...
AI continues to reshape the data center industry, a reality reflected in the projected 2025 data center trends from Vertiv. Vertiv experts anticipate increased industry innovation and integration to support high-density computing, regulatory scrutiny around AI, as well as increasing focus on sustainability and cybersecurity efforts. “Our experts correctly identified the proliferation of AI and the...