Worldwide cloud infrastructure services expenditure increased 28% year on year to reach US$63.1 billion in Q3 2022, up US$13.8 billion on the same period a year ago. With the negative impact of inflation and rising energy prices, companies are responding to market uncertainty by reducing spending, which may hit demand for cloud services in the short term. Coupled with the strong US dollar, the ann...
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 Manager, Microsoft UAE. The ener...
The establishment of Vertiv’s Kenyan Customer Experience Center is part of the company’s growing footprint in Africa to modernize infrastructure and drive digital transformation. Vertiv has announced the opening of its new office and state-of-the-art Customer Experience Center in Nairobi. With an increasing demand for high efficiency critical infrastructure in East Africa, this center supports Ver...
Veritas Technologies has advanced its Autonomous Data Management strategy with the launch of Veritas Alta, a cloud data management platform that helps enterprises transition mission-critical workloads to the cloud. Veritas Alta harnesses the benefits of the cloud to reduce costs, strengthen ransomware resiliency, and ensure data is protected, available, and compliant. Veritas also introduced Verit...
Atos has announced the win of a seven-year contract with Siemens Healthineers to provide, deploy and manage Software Defined Access (SDA)-enabled global LAN (local area network) services in close to 60 customer locations in 15 countries. This contract showcases Atos’ ability and commitment, as global network infrastructure partner, to support Siemens Healthineers on its journey towards a modernize...
In partnership with Google Cloud, mCloud will directly integrate and leverage core Google Cloud services to enable powerful capabilities driving the sustainability of asset- and energy-intensive operations mCloud Technologies, a leading provider of AI-powered asset management and Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) solutions has announced it has entered into a strategic partn...
With a focus on sustainability and localization, Daikin seeks to grow its footprint across residential, commercial, and industrial applications Daikin Industries is working on expanding its footprint across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) in line with its Fusion25 five-year growth plan. With a focus on sustainability and localization, Daikin seeks to grow its footprint across residential, commerc...
Cloudera Continues Rapid Pace of Data Fabric and Data Lakehouse Innovation Cloudera has announced new hybrid data capabilities that enable organizations to more efficiently move data, metadata, data workloads and data applications across clouds and on premises to optimize for performance, cost and security. Cloudera’s portable data services enable simple, low-risk data workload and data applicati...
Nutanix has announced new features in its Cloud Platform to accelerate the adoption of Kubernetes running both at scale and cost-effectively. The company announced broad support for leading Kubernetes container platforms, built-in infrastructure as code capabilities, and enhanced data services for modern applications. These new features allow DevOps teams to accelerate application delivery with th...
Veeam Software has partnered with Lenovo on the NEW Lenovo TruScale Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution. As the first data protection solution added to TruScale, Veeam will provide Lenovo users with ‘pay as you go’ BaaS via Lenovo’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. The unified solution is designed to modernize enterprises’ data protection strategy, help manage exploding data volumes, a...