Aramco and stc have announced the launch of Dammam 7, a new supercomputer among the top 10 most powerful in the world. The supercomputer presents new opportunities in both exploration and development and enhances Aramco’s decision-making on exploration and investment decisions. According to Aramco, the move is the next step in its Digital Transformation, complementing […]

As Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has grown in popularity with businesses, it has been increasingly used to connect public and hybrid cloud services to the enterprise network and secure home-based teleworking. This brings its own security risks. Roque Lozano, Vice President of IP & Optics for Middle East and Africa at Nokia, explains how […]

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 […]

The events of 2020 rapidly accelerated a global, cross-industry Digital Transformation, underscoring the mission-criticality of data centres as the backbone of the world’s virtual economy. In fact, the data centre market is expected to grow by nearly 14% in 2021. ABB Power Conversion – a global provider of comprehensive, end-to-end power solutions in mission-critical environments […]

Interxion: A Digital Realty Company and leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions, has signed an agreement with PCCW GLOBAL to locate the Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) subsea cable system’s termination and interconnection equipment in Interxion’s MRS2 data centre in Marseille, France. The collaboration will enable low-latency access to over 160 connectivity […]

The pandemic has highlighted the fact that business leaders should take the current situation as an opportunity to improve and invest in their business models. Jackson Lee, VP Corporate Development from Colt Data Centre Services, says FinTech companies must be proactive when investing in their IT infrastructure and particularly in their data storage and connectivity, […]

As remote work becomes the new, smarter normal, businessesneed to adapt their hybrid cloud strategy and modernise theirdata centre infrastructure. Dr Christopher Cooper – DCG Director,Lenovo MEA, tells Intelligent CIO Middle East, how Lenovo isdelivering supreme hyperconverged infrastructure solutions thatbest fit an organisation’s IT strategy. Lenovo is addressing the hybrid cloud strategy and modernisation of […]

As the world moved online seemingly overnight in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the criticality of data centres and the unrelenting reliance on them across all walks of life became an enduring storyline of the crisis. This reality will manifest in new ways in 2021 as the data centre and the information ecosystem orbiting […]

Rabee El Mohammadi, Area Vice President, Emerging Markets (Middle East, Africa, Turkey, Russia & CIS) at BMC Software, tells us how organisations can rise through seismic changes to thrive in 2025 and beyond. How fast is the world moving around us? At unprecedented speed. Seismic changes are bringing uncertainty and leading to fundamental shifts in […]

Interxion, a Digital Realty company and a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions, has announced it has acquired Lamda Hellix, south-eastern Europe’s leading colocation and interconnection provider. The acquisition provides Digital Realty access to one of the region’s fastest-growing markets and a gateway to an increasingly important connectivity hub.   Lamda […]