As the governments’ push towards digital transformation fuels demand for data centres in the Middle East, the UAE has firmly established itself as a leader in driving the data centre evolution with around 28 active colocation facilities, revealed JLL in a whitepaper at Cityscape Global. Several data centres and cloud providers have either established a […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that Sherifa Hady has been appointed to lead the HPE Aruba Networking EMEA Sales business, assuming the role on September 1. An accomplished senior leader within HPE, Sherifa recently celebrated 23 years with HPE and three years with the HPE Aruba Networking team. She steps into her new position […]
Astra Tech, a consumer technology holding group in the MENA region, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. The MoU will leverage Alibaba Cloud’s Enterprise Mobile Application Studio (EMAS) mobile testing solution into Botim, which is underway to become an ultra-app, to enhance […]
Nearly 15 million electric cars (battery electric and plug-in hybrid) are expected to be shipped worldwide in 2023, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Shipments of electric cars are estimated to increase 19% in 2024, to total 17.9 million units. Gartner forecasts that shipments of all electric vehicles (EVs) – cars, buses, vans and […]
SAP and BT Group have announced a visionary new partnership to show how carbon accounting could be standardised by piloting the recently launched SAP Sustainability Data Exchange (SDX). SAP SDX enables BT Group to collect, trace and share carbon data across its own supplier base, providing unparalleled visibility into the carbon footprint of its products […]
Digital Realty has announced the availability of high-density colocation services across PlatformDIGITAL, the company’s global data center platform. With high-performance computing (HPC) ready infrastructure configurations, Digital Realty’s high-density colocation services enable businesses to overcome the processing and proximity challenges associated with the unstructured and exponential growth of data, as well as the use of artificial intelligence […]
AVEVA has met its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets for 2025 early and accelerated investment in software solutions that help customers in the UK and beyond to decarbonise. The results, communicated in the new AVEVA 2023 Sustainability Progress Report, reveal significant progress across all three pillars of the company’s sustainability framework, encompassing […]
Kingston Digital Europe, a flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, has announced the XS1000 External SSD, a small and incredibly sleek file backup solution. XS1000 joins XS2000 as a new product offering in Kingston’s external SSD product portfolio. Both drives are extremely compact and under 29 grams to provide pocket-sized portability. Kingston’s XS1000 offers read speeds […]
Extreme Networks has announced the launch of a new regional data centre (RDC) in the UAE to meet growing business needs for faster data transmissions, easy access to cloud solutions and heightened data security. Through AI and machine learning functionality with the ExtremeCloud IQ platform, the RDC enables both government and enterprise customers to run […]
G42 and Microsoft have embarked on the next phase of their ongoing strategic collaboration and announced a multifaceted plan to make available sovereign cloud offerings, co-innovate and deliver advanced AI capabilities, and expand the existing data center infrastructure in the UAE. Microsoft’s sovereign cloud offering will allow UAE public sector and regulated industries to use new platform […]
