CNME Editor Mark Forker managed to secure an exclusive interview with Lothar Renner, Managing Director, Security Sales and Engineering for EMEA at Cisco during GISEC 2024. Renner highlighted the security capabilities that Cisco was showcasing at the event, the impact of AI on the cybersecurity ecosystem – and how Cisco Hypershield will reshape the security landscape. The global cybersecurity market jumped from $202bn in 2022 to$222bn in 2023, and is expected to reach close to $300bn by the end of 2028. As one of the biggest technology leaders in the world, Cisco has a responsibility to build ..read more

Exclusive Networks, the leading cybersecurity value-added distributor (VAD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Veritas, has announced a strategic agreement with Veritas a leader in secure multicloud data resilience, to deliver world-class data management solutions to businesses across the region. This commitment will empower partners and customers to build comprehensive data resilience strategies and navigate the ever-evolving data landscape with confidence. Exclusive Networks and Veritas bring together expertise and reach to address the growing data protection needs of organizations in the K ..read more

StorIT Distribution, the leading Value-Added Distributor in the Middle East and North Africa for Enterprise IT Products and Solutions, and Liqid, a global leader in composable infrastructure solutions, have announced a strategic partnership that promises to reshape the AI infrastructure landscape in the region. Suren Vedantham, Managing Director, StorIT Distribution This partnership combines Liqid’s dynamic GPU pooling capabilities with StorIT’s extensive market experience. By joining forces, both companies aim to empower organizations across the Middle East with unparalleled performance, powe ..read more

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has launched a second iteration of its renowned large language model (LLM) – Falcon 2. Within this series, it has unveiled two groundbreaking versions: Falcon 2 11B, a more efficient and accessible LLM trained on 5.5 trillion tokens with 11 billion parameters, and Falcon 2 11B VLM, distinguished by its vision-to-language model (VLM) capabilities, which enable seamless conversion of visual inputs into textual outputs ..read more

Veeam® Software has announced that Veeam will deliver support for Proxmox VE. The support for this virtualization platform has been a popular request from Veeam’s existing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers and service providers. Veeam will showcase this new data protection capability live for the first time during VeeamON 2024, taking place June 3-5, 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and online. As organizations embrace new technology and evolve their business, it is critical they can choose the business platforms and applications optimized for their parti ..read more

Endava, a leading technology services company combining world-class engineering, industry expertise and a people-centric mindset, has found that given ongoing uncertainty within the tech sector, most decision makers are choosing technologies that offer more noticeable, near-term benefits. The findings are included in Endava’s 2024 Emerging Tech Unpacked Report, which launches today and explores which new and emerging technologies business leaders are investing in. The report, which surveyed almost 700 organisations of various sizes and industries globally found that in the drive towards opera ..read more

Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, have announced an optimization for Portworx® by Pure Storage on Red Hat OpenShift to enable streamlined integration and provide enterprises with a more seamless path to modern virtualization. By delivering a single platform to deploy, scale, and manage modern applications, and a single control plane for both virtual machines (VMs) and containers, Pure Storage and Red Hat can help accelerate time to market and p ..read more

Exclusive Networks, the leading cybersecurity value-added distributor (VAD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Veritas, has announced a strategic agreement with Veritas a leader in secure multicloud data resilience, to deliver world-class data management solutions to businesses across the region. This commitment will empower partners and customers to build comprehensive data resilience strategies and navigate the ever-evolving data landscape with confidence. Exclusive Networks and Veritas bring together expertise and reach to address the growing data protection needs of organizations in the K ..read more

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has launched a second iteration of its renowned large language model (LLM) – Falcon 2. Within this series, it has unveiled two groundbreaking versions: Falcon 2 11B, a more efficient and accessible LLM trained on 5.5 trillion tokens with 11 billion parameters, and Falcon 2 11B VLM, distinguished by its vision-to-language model (VLM) capabilities, which enable seamless conversion of visual inputs into textual outputs ..read more

Riverbed, the leader in AI Observability, introduced the most advanced AI-powered observability platform to optimize digital experiences, and launched several new solutions and a unified agent built on this open architecture. Dave Donatelli, Chief Executive Officer at Riverbed Expanding on its broad collection of full-fidelity data across the IT landscape, Riverbed’s new observability capabilities now enable IT to overcome visibility blind spots around public cloud, Zero Trust and SD-WAN architectures, and remote work environments. Additionally, with Aternity Mobile, IT can now monitor enterpr ..read more