Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that Dubai Islamic Bank has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to modernize their core banking system to deliver improved customer experience and launch new services and digital products. In addition, the deployment of a comprehensive set of HPE Aruba Networking wireless solutions will enhance DIB’s connectivity and mobility capabilities as well as overall network security. Established in 1975, DIB is the largest Islamic bank in the UAE and the second largest in the world. Driven by the bank’s customer-centric approach and its commitment to s ..read more

New York University Abu Dhabi has selected Dell Technologies to transform and build an advanced computing environment to fast-track research projects and drive measurable scientific results. NYUAD chose Dell PowerEdge Servers powered by AMD EPYC processors which enable faster adoption for HPC customers, due to high core counts in CPUs (up to 64 cores per socket), high memory capacity, and fast IO capabilities. This is further accelerated by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and connected with high-performance NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking, Dell Networking, and Dell Professional Service ..read more

CirrusLabs, a United States-based digital transformation and IT solutions provider is pleased to announce the launch of their new office and Customer Experience Center at Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE. This strategic location places us at the heart of technological innovation in the region, making it an ideal spot to serve customers better and cater to their digital transformation needs. The launch ceremony was presided over by Dr. Juma Al Matrooshi, the Director General of Dubai Silicon Oasis as the chief guest of honor and the ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by a team of ..read more

To meet the rapidly growing demand for its cloud services, Oracle announced plans to open a third public cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Located in Riyadh, the new cloud region will be part of a planned $1.5 billion investment from Oracle to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the Kingdom. The Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region will join the existing Oracle Cloud Jeddah Region and the planned Oracle Cloud Region to be located in the futuristic city of NEOM. This investment is included in an MoU that Oracle has signed with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to help Saudi Ar ..read more

Injazat, a G42 company, announced launch of a new operational office for the Cyber Fusion Center services in the Injazat headquarters, as part of their plan to expand their digital services and implement their framework, incorporating metaverse, digital twin, cybersecurity, and smart cities fusions. The official opening ceremony was attended by the guest of honor, His Excellency Mohamad Al Kuwaiti, the UAE’s head of cybersecurity, and distinguished members representing the Abu Dhabi Cybersecurity Council during a ceremonial ribbon cutting alongside Ussama Dahabiyeh, CEO of Injazat, and other d ..read more

Equinix announced plans to enter the South African market with a $160 million data center investment in Johannesburg that augments its current footprint on the African continent in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The new data center is expected to open mid-2024. With its South Africa expansion, Equinix is entering one of the largest and most digitally developed nations on the African continent. Already a strategically important connectivity hub for digital networks, South Africa boasts a significant network of submarine communications cables. These strategic links between countries and conti ..read more

Trend Micro welcomes the launch of AWS Middle East Region, which will support the acceleration of innovation and digital transformation in the United Arab Emirates. The new AWS Middle East Region consists of three Availability Zones and becomes AWS’s second region in the Middle East with the existing AWS Region in Bahrain, launched in 2019. The new AWS Region gives organizations even greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in the UAE, using advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. Trend Micro is set to reinforce its partnership with A ..read more

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, started its annual Apsara Conference by announcing the launch of ModelScope, an open-source Model-as-a-Service platform that comes with hundreds of AI models, including large pre-trained models for global developers and researchers. During its flagship conference, the global leading cloud provider also introduced a range of serverless database products and upgraded its integrated data analytics and intelligent computing platform to help customers further achieve business innovation through cloud technologies. “Cl ..read more

Veritas Technologies, is warning that businesses are facing a cost crisis for collaborative working tools as post-COVID working practices begin to catch up with them. The use of cloud collaboration services, such as Microsoft SharePoint, rapidly accelerated at the start of the pandemic. Yet, with very few providers of collaboration tools offering options to archive files, many businesses are finding that their data volumes and cost overruns are now ballooning out of control. If left unaddressed, those businesses will find themselves paying the high price of ‘storage overages’ for data that the ..read more

Amazon Web Services, announced the launch of its second region in the Middle East, the AWS Middle East, UAE Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations will have even greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in the United Arab Emirates, using advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. “AWS is committed to helping customers in the UAE deploy the most advanced cloud technologies and achieve the highest levels of security, availability, and resil ..read more