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Nutanix Appoints Philippe Dosset As Leader Of EMEA OEM & Alliances Team
Nutanix has announced that Philippe Dosset has been appointed to lead the EMEA OEM & Alliances team. In his new role, effective August 1st, he will be responsible for driving new business opportunities through alliances and OEM partnerships. Philippe is based in Paris. “In this new role, I look forward to collaborating with the sales and marketing teams to leverage partner relationships in the...
Oracle Opens Second Cloud Region In Saudi Arabia
Oracle has announced the opening of its second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia. The new Riyadh cloud region will help public and private sector organisations migrate all types of workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving them access to a wide range of cloud services to modernise their applications and innovate with data, analytics, and AI. Center3 is the host partner for the new O...
Du, Nokia, and MediaTek Enhance 5G Technologies In MEA
du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), in collaboration with Nokia and MediaTek, announced a major milestone in the integration and enhancement of 5G technologies in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). This innovative trial, a first in the region, has successfully boosted uplink (UL) performance by 70% on du’s 5G Advanced network, simultaneously offering expanded indoor cove...
Siemon Launches LightStack And LightStack 8 Ultra-high Density Fibre Plug And Play System
Siemon has launched its new and improved LightStack and LightStack 8 ultra-high density fibre plug and play system in the Middle East. This innovative solution delivers superior density, port access, and cable management in a sleek, modern platform, making it ideal for today’s advanced data centre or enterprise networking environments. “With LightStack, we are removing the compromises often associ...
Canalys: AI Fuelling Demand For Cloud Infrastructure Services
Global cloud spend to exceed US$590 billion by 2028, reports Canalys. Worldwide expenditure on cloud infrastructure services rose by 19.7% year-over-year, reaching $77.7 billion in Q1 2024. The North American region is experiencing the fastest growth, primarily due to the high acceptance and adoption rates of AI applications. The Asia-Pacific region follows. Hyperscalers announced cloud infrastruc...
Radix And Cognite To Deliver Industrial Applications Library
Radix has announced a strategic partnership with Cognite, the globally recognised authority in Data and AI for industry. This partnership aims to accelerate the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline and contextualise data management and asset performance across oil and gas, energy, petrochemicals, and manufacturing industries. The partnership pairs Cognite’s leading Industrial DataOps ...
BNET Signs MoU With Huawei
BNET, the national provider of fibre optic infrastructure in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei Bahrain. This strategic partnership, formalised during a visit by BNET’s management team to China, signifies a mutual commitment to enhancing the nationwide fibre broadband experience in Bahrain. The MoU outlines a collaborative fra...
Commvault Cloud with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage Delivers Enhanced Cyber Resilience and Recovery
Commvault has announced Microsoft 365 Backup Storage as an integrated component of Commvault Cloud Backup and Recovery for Microsoft 365. The Commvault Cloud platform, built on Microsoft Azure, empowers joint customers to deploy the combined solution, Commvault Cloud with Premium Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, at any time for enhanced cyber resilience, while enabling single pane of glass control th...
New Microsoft 365 Backup Storage Capability For Veeam Data Cloud
Veeam Software has announced the next generation of Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 with the new capabilities offered by Microsoft 365 Backup Storage. Veeam Data Cloud, which is built on Microsoft Azure, provides backup-as-a-service (BaaS) for Microsoft 365, enabling data resilience and leveraging powerful data protection and security technology within a simple, seamless user experience. As a l...
Vertiv And Gulf Data Hub To Deploy 16MW Data Center In Dubai
Vertiv and Gulf Data Hub (GDH), a leader in colocation services and data center solutions, announced details surrounding their transformational multi-year data center collaboration project at a facility dedicated to advancing biotechnological research and renewable energy generation in Dubai, UAE.
Nutanix Elevates Mohammad Abulhouf To VP & GM For Emerging Markets
Nutanix has announced that Mohammad Abulhouf has been promoted to Vice President & General Manager for Emerging Markets. He will continue to focus on expanding Nutanix’s regional client base and accelerating growth significantly, in response to the ongoing digital transformation sweeping through the region. Abulhouf has been with Nutanix for over six years and his rise within the company...
Hyperscaler Emissions Continue To Surge
Dr Luiz Amaral, soon to be the former CEO of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), recently announced he will be stepping down from his post for personal reasons. This follows a controversial recent announcement from the UK-based charity that it plans to accept renewable electricity certificates as evidence of corporate value chain decarbonization. On the same day as Amaral’s announcement, ...