Deepak
Canalys: Cloud Spending To Be Slow In The Second Half Of 2023
Global cloud infrastructure services spending increased 19% to US$66.4 billion in Q1 2023. While cloud remains one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT market, customer investments continue to slow in the face of persistent macroeconomic uncertainties. Market researcher Canalys expects worldwide cloud services spending to continue to be slow through the second half of 2023. Enterprises are re...
Finesse And Aquila Clouds Partner
Finesse has teamed up with Aquila Clouds to provide businesses in the region with a comprehensive suite of tools to gain visibility into their cloud costs, streamline their cloud utilisation, and achieve financial effectiveness. Aquila Clouds has established itself as a market leader in Cloud Financial Management solutions by enabling businesses to gain complete visibility of their costs and utili...
Cloud-Native Functions to spearhead realization of Sustainability Goals
Alix Leconte, VP for Service Providers (EMEA) at F5, explains how cloud-native functions can help telcos meet sustainability goals.
e& Turns To Oracle Cloud To Shape UAE’s Digital Future
Oracle has announced that technology group e& is scaling its cloud footprint to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region to support its business expansion and modernize the business applications. Under an agreement signed at the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Abu Dhabi, e& will also explore migrating its global HR functions to Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). With a...
STL among world’s first companies to develop 180 micron optical fibre
STL has announced that it has developed its slimmest fibre yet – a 180 micron optical fibre. This fibre enables the smallest diameters in cables with the highest fibre densities. STL showcased a next-generation microcable with 288 fibres capable of being deployed in 8 mm ducts, at the ongoing FTTH Conference 2023, in Madrid, Spain today. STL is amongst the first companies globally and the first in...
Equinix Releases 2022 Sustainability Report
Equinix has released its 2022 Sustainability Report which outlines progress toward the company’s key environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. Focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) that are most aligned with its business—Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure; Climate Action; Affordable & Clean Energy; Decent Work & Economic Growth; Reduced I...
Injazat and Oracle to Create New Dedicated Cloud Region
Oracle has partnered with Injazat, Abu Dhabi’s digital transformation company, to create an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region within Injazat’s data centers to provide the UAE’s federal government and Abu Dhabi’s local government entities access to Oracle Cloud Applications and Infrastructure services in compliance with the highest regulatory requirements. The partnership framework was s...
75% Of Organizations Will Have Implemented A Data Center Infrastructure Sustainability Program By 2027
Seventy-five percent of organizations will have implemented a data center infrastructure sustainability program driven by cost optimization and stakeholder pressures by 2027, up from less than 5% in 2022, according to Gartner. “Responsibilities for sustainability are increasingly being passed down from CIOs to infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to improve IT’s environmental performanc...
Creating An All-flash Datacentre: The Final Nail In The Coffin For Legacy Hard Disk
By Patrick Smith, Field CTO for EMEA at Pure Storage Simplicity and innovation are the foundations on which John ‘Coz’ Colgrove started Pure Storage in 2009. He wanted to keep these principles while achieving a vision to take flash storage mainstream and create an all-flash datacentre. Innovative vision Today there are well-known advantages of flash over legacy disk-based storage. However, back th...
AVEVA Releases New AI – powered Software
AVEVA has announced the launch of its latest AVEVA Predictive Analytics software release, purpose-built for predictive monitoring of industrial assets in oil and gas, power, chemicals, mining and minerals, and manufacturing. The software helps industrial operators achieve the highest possible levels of reliability and performance of industrial assets while improving sustainability and increasing ...
Microsoft And Google Report Stronger Year-on-Year Cloud Growth Numbers
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 growth seen in the previous quarter. Q1 spending was up by 4% from Q4, similar ...
Abu Dhabi Named Smartest City In MENA Region
For the third consecutive year, Abu Dhabi ranked as the smartest city in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for 2023, according to the IMD Smart City Index released by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland in collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) has...