Microsoft is participating in COMEX as the official Innovation Partner, where it will demonstrate industry-leading technological innovations and highlight the key role artificial intelligence (AI) plays in the successful digital transformation journeys of governments and businesses. Held at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre in Muscat, Microsoft’s booth at COMEX reflects the company’s commitment to […]
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that Q1 enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services exceeded $63 billion worldwide, up by well over $10 billion from the first quarter of last year. The year-on-year growth rate was 20% in Q1. While this is well down from previous years, it was similar to the level of […]
G42 and Microsoft have announced their intention to collaborate on the development of public sector and industry focused solutions that leverage Microsoft’s partner ecosystem and cloud capabilities. These solutions will benefit UAE organisations to address citizen and customer needs. Formalised in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that was signed at G42’s premises, the agreement will […]
Microsoft and SAP have jointly announced the launch of RISE with SAP on Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud datacenter region in Qatar. SAP customers in Qatar can now host RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure, expanding the opportunities for building a cloud-first economy in Qatar, the GCC and the MENA region. Microsoft and SAP made the announcement […]
Schneider Electric has joined forces with Microsoft and Emirates Health Services (EHS) to launch EcoStruxure for Healthcare – a digital twin solution designed to increase healthcare operational performance and improve energy efficiency for hospitals across the UAE up to 30% (according to estimates by Schneider Electric). Designed to improve sustainability, efficiency and patient care, the […]
Canalys estimates that cloud marketplaces will grow to over US$45 billion by 2025, representing an 84% CAGR. Cloud marketplaces are accelerating as a route to market for technology, led by hyperscale cloud vendors such as Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, which are pouring billions of development dollars into the sector. “The marketplace […]
Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Fungible Inc., a provider of composable infrastructure aimed at accelerating networking and storage performance in datacenters with high-efficiency, low-power data processing units (DPUs). Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out datacenter infrastructure with reliability and security. The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s datacenter infrastructure engineering teams and will […]
Microsoft has announced it has acquired Lumenisity Limited, a leader in next-generation hollow core fiber (HCF) solutions. Lumenisity’s innovative and industry-leading HCF product can enable fast, reliable and secure networking for global, enterprise and large-scale organizations. The acquisition will expand Microsoft’s ability to further optimize its global cloud infrastructure and serve Microsoft’s Cloud Platform and […]
Microsoft today announced its participation as a Gold Sponsor of the upcoming Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2022, in which the company will showcase its contributions to the worldwide pursuit of a net-zero future. “At Microsoft, we are proud of our global work on carbon reduction and sustainability”, said Naim Yazbeck, General […]
Under this transformational initiative Microsoft Azure will help advance UBS’s sustainability goals UBS and Microsoft have announced a landmark expansion of their partnership to accelerate UBS’s public cloud footprint over the next five years. Through this transformational initiative, UBS plans to have more than 50% of its applications, including critical workloads, running on Microsoft Azure, […]
