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Arc Solutions is recognised at the Global Carrier Awards 2021

Arc Solutions, a provider of integrated networking solutions, has been awarded Best Data Centre / Edge Service Innovation at the Global Carrier Awards 2021. It has been recognised for its work in rapidly expanding its network ecosystem and launching a Middle Eastern pan-regional connectivity platform to fill the gap in the market for on-demand, intra-regional […]


Data centre commissioning increasingly important to defeating digital downtime

We often tend to focus on the specific technology and infrastructure that makes up a data centre, paying less attention to the design and build of the data centre itself. Martin Williamson, Head of Commissioning – Middle East, AESG, outlines what a comprehensive data centre commissioning process should look like and why it is important […]


Cisco CX: Bringing human and digital connections to life at Expo 2020 Dubai

Expo 2020 Dubai is set to welcome millions of visitors from around the globe, with the event said to be the largest ever held in the Arab world. The event needed to deliver an end-to-end network architecture capable of meeting both performance and capacity requirements, and Cisco CX provided the solution. Mohammed Alhashmi, Chief Technology […]


The democratisation of the workplace through Edge Computing

Digital Transformation of traditional business processes is taking place across the data centre sector and Edge Computing is a fundamental contributor to this overhaul. Rick Vanover, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeam, explains why this technology is critical to ensuring a seamless transition from the traditional workplace setting to the future of work. It’s […]


AWS to open data centres in UAE

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced that it plans to open an infrastructure region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first half of 2022. The new AWS Middle East (UAE) Region will consist of three Availability Zones and become AWS’s second region in the Middle East with the existing AWS […]


Netskope expands NewEdge Security Private Cloud across Europe and the Middle East

Netskope, the SASE leader, announced expansion of the Netskope NewEdge network across Europe and the Middle East, with new data centres brought online in Manchester, UK, Marseilles, France, Zurich, Switzerland and Fujairah, UAE. All of the additional presence and capacity has been activated in direct response to customer demand, as enterprises worldwide embrace a SASE […]


Tencent Cloud deploys its first MENA region Internet data centre hub in Bahrain

Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Tencent, has announced its collaboration with the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) – the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Investment promotion agency. The two parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim to drive the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Internet Data Centre (IDC) development and support its rapid emergence as […]


Delivering value-added data centre solutions for the modern and transformed enterprise

To achieve their goals of Digital Transformation, many organisations have looked closely at their data centre environment. Wang Di, President, Huawei Digital Power, Middle East, highlights examples of how Huawei has worked closely with customers in the region to enable their organisations to scale.   Across the entirety of 2020, the business environment has become […]


Khazna data centres to provide 200 MW to turbocharge UAE’s digital economy

The expansion will support Digital Transformation, which is central to the UAE’s economic ambitions and has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Khazna, the UAE’s largest supplier of commercial wholesale data centre services, has announced that it will build multiple new data centres and increase its capacity five-fold over the next four years to provide vital […]


High private cloud usage sets path for UAE’s hybrid cloud migration

Third annual Nutanix survey finds UAE companies ahead of the global curve on private cloud adoption which is a key component of the emerging, highly flexible hybrid cloud model. Nutanix, a leader in private cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud computing has released an analysis of its third global Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report, showing […]


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