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Samsung Electronics MENA And UNDP Announce Climate Hackathon
Samsung Electronics MENA, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has announced a regional hackathon to support efforts to tackle climate change and advance sustainable development. The ACT28 AI for Climate Hackathon aims to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), mobile technologies and other frontier technologies to create innovative solutions f...
COP28 Delivers Historic Climate Consensus In Dubai
COP28 has concluded with a historic agreement by 198 Parties to deliver a new era of climate action. The Parties agreed a landmark text named The UAE Consensus, that sets out an ambitious climate agenda to keep 1.5°C within reach. The UAE Consensus calls on Parties to transition away from fossil fuels to reach net zero, encourages them to submit economy-wide Nationally Determined Contributions (ND...
AWS And NVIDIA To Offer Supercomputing Infra And Services For Generative-AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration to deliver the most advanced infrastructure, software, and services to power customers’ generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. The companies will bring together the best of NVIDIA and AWS technologies—from NVIDIA’s newest multi-node systems featuring next-generation GPUs, CPUs, and AI so...
Huawei Cloud Launches Pangu Finance Model Globally
Huawei Cloud has unveiled the Pangu Finance Model for the first time outside of China at the 2023 Huawei Cloud Fintech Summit. This strategic move marks Huawei Cloud’s commitment to fostering global innovation in the Fintech sector, signaling a significant step towards shaping the future of digital finance. The Huawei Cloud Pangu Finance Model integrates advanced technologies such as artificial in...
Fortinet Announces Expanded Strategic Partnership With Digital Realty
Fortinet has announced an expanded strategic partnership with Digital Realty. This partnership accelerates the expansion of Fortinet Universal SASE, which has already surpassed over 100 locations worldwide. Leveraging PlatformDIGITAL, Digital Realty’s global data center platform enables customers to secure their hybrid IT workflows across clouds and locations. “The expansion of our strategic partn...
Equinix To Deploy Liquid Cooling Tech In More Than 100 Global Data Centres
Equinix has announced plans to expand support for advanced liquid cooling technologies—like direct-to-chip—to more than 100 of its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in more than 45 metros around the world. This builds on Equinix’s existing offering that supports liquid-to-air cooling, through in-rack heat exchangers, at nearly every IBX today. This expansion will enable more...
Vertiv Acquisition Of CoolTera Boosts Liquid Cooling Portfolio
Vertiv has announced that subsidiaries of the company have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the shares of CoolTera Ltd. (CoolTera), a provider of coolant distribution infrastructure for data center liquid cooling technology and certain assets, including certain contracts, patents, trademarks, and intellectual property from an affiliate of CoolTera. Founded in 2016 and based in...
70% of KSA Organizations View Technology As Key To Achieving Their Sustainability Goals
Kyndryl, in collaboration with Microsoft, released the findings of The Global Sustainability Barometer study. The study, conducted by Ecosystm, finds that while 83% of organizations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) place a high strategic level of importance on achieving their sustainability goals, only 3% have integrated sustainability into their strategies and data. As the world faces an incr...
WSO2 Asgardeo Now Availabile On Microsoft Azure Marketplace
WSO2 has announced the availability of Asgardeo Software as a Service Identity Management Solution in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. WSO2 customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management. WSO2 Asgardeo supports all IAM use cases, which include Custo...
Kyndryl And Microsoft Release Findings Of Global Sustainability Barometer Study
Kyndryl, in collaboration with Microsoft, released the findings of The Global Sustainability Barometer study. The study, conducted by Ecosystm, finds that while 88% of organizations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) place a high strategic level of importance on achieving their sustainability goals, only 22% have integrated sustainability into their strategies and data. As the world faces an increa...
Launch Of The Voluntary Recycling Credits (VRC) Initiative At COP28 Marks World’s First Standard To Incentivize Recycling Globally
In response to global waste crisis and aligning with global commitments to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards and net-zero targets, an international consortium led by Roland Berger and BEEAH Group, in collaboration with DFINITY Foundation, and the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), demonstrated the world’s first global incentive system to counteract the solid waste fo...
Ericsson And Etisalat By E& Launch Zero-Footprint RAN Site In The UAE
Ericsson has partnered with etisalat by e& to deploy a zero-footprint radio access network (RAN) site in its network in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in line with e&’s sustainability strategy. The deployment focuses on carbon emission reduction, energy efficiency enhancement and resource conservation, which also aligns with the objectives of the UAE Net Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative....