Microsoft has expanded its long-term partnership with Majid Al Futtaim with a new strategic agreement that will enhance Majid Al Futtaim’s operations across the retail, real estate, and entertainment sectors by utilizing Microsoft’s robust suite of technologies and services. Both organizations will be working together on a number of strategic objectives that will leverage their […]
WSO2 was recently recognized as one of the highest-rated cloud-computing companies to work for in the sixth-ever list released by the globally, technology-focused investment firm Battery Ventures, created with data provided by Glassdoor. The list recognizes the top 25 private and top 25 public companies—all business-to-business (B2B) cloud-computing companies—where employees self-report the highest levels of […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) commissioned a new report quantifying the relationship between cloud computing adoption, national productivity, and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The report highlights the potential for Kuwait to unlock USD 16.8 billion in additional economic value over the next decade (2023-2033). The study, performed by Telecom […]
Lenovo has announced new solutions to enable customers to better solve for rapidly growing data management needs, coupled with new milestones in its enterprise storage momentum. Its new enterprise-class storage solutions deliver significant power efficiency increases and datacenter space savings to help support sustainability goals while new ThinkSystem storage systems help safeguard critical data with […]
Data Center-as-a-Service pioneer ECL has announced the world’s first modular, sustainable, off-grid data center that uses green hydrogen as its primary power source. ECL will deliver data centers in 1MW blocks with 99.9999 percent uptime. The company also announced $7M in seed financing co-led by Molex Ventures and Hyperwise Ventures. Lily Yeung, Vice President at […]
Alibaba DAMO Academy (“DAMO”), the global research initiative by Alibaba Group, has shared its annual forecasting of the leading technology trends that could shape many industries in the years ahead. Among the leading technology trends, Generative AI, which has already gained considerable traction, is expected to make further strides with its growing applications set to […]
A cloud strategy is a concise viewpoint on the role of cloud computing in the organization. However, business and IT leaders continue to make 10 common mistakes when crafting their cloud strategy, according to Gartner. “A good cloud strategy should be a short and consumable document, consisting of 10 to 20 pages or slides,” said […]
E-finance has partnered with IBM to expand its digital payment services and give clients access to hybrid cloud environments to make secure payments. Under this partnership, e-finance is leveraging the latest IBM Power servers to upgrade its current infrastructure as a service (IaaS). E-finance has partnered with IBM to expand its digital payment services and […]
Nutanix has announced the introduction of its New Cloud Bundles. These build on its channel initiative for the commercial market segment launched in 2020. The next generation of bundles enable customers to standardise on Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) while offering channel partners streamlined options to integrate with their value propositions and grow their share of […]
Phillip Liu, General Manager of Middle East and Africa, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, provides cloud computing trends to watch out for in 2021.
