Jaleel Holdings, a UAE based investment company, has entered into an agreement for managed cloud services with BIOS. The company has interests in multiple sectors, including, education, metal fabrication, logistics, and fast-moving consumer goods.
SAP adds new features to Vora
SAP has added some new capabilities to SAP Vora, its in-memory distributed computing system based on Apache Spark and Hadoop. …
SAP announces $200 million investment in the UAE
SAP SE has recently announced a five-year $200 million investment in the UAE, underpinning objectives outlined by the UAE Vision 2021 plan to create economic diversity and jobs for youth.
Vertical focus: North Africa
Reseller ME explores the opportunities present in the North African market and how channel partners can look at maximising their business in the region.
OMA Emirates expands payment solution portfolio
OMA Emirates has announced its investment into India based MobiSwipe, a company that specializes in Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solutions.
OMA Emirates expands mobile payment offerings
OMA Emirates has announced its investment into India based MobiSwipe, a company that specializes in Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solutions.
In pictures: The hottest cars at CES 2017
Cars have become one of the most popular attractions at CES in Las Vegas this year. Auto manufacturers are using the show to preview the latest cutting edge tech coming to cars in the future.
SAP’s Nils Herzberg on the company’s IoT strategy
SAP’s global co-lead and SVP for its Internet of Things portfolio, Nils Herzberg, gave CNME the lowdown on the company’s strategy for the fast-growing space at the firm’s TechEd conference in Barcelona.
Pure Storage, Cisco enhances FlashStack Converged Infrastructure portfolio
Pure Storage has announced that the company is expanding its FlashStack Converged Infrastructure Solution with Cisco.
SAP announces Earth Observation Analysis
SAP, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), has announced the Earth Observation Analysis service, a cloud service powered by the SAP HANA platform.
The power of one
Following its historic split from HP Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise is now playing its part in in delivering Dubai’s Smart City ambitions. Vice president for the Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa region Chris Johnson is bullish about HPE’s prospects as an independent infrastructure partner for the GCC.
Gulftainer adopts in-memory database for ‘real-time’ insights
Aligning with the business’s digital transformation vision, Gulftainer’s IT department has recently rolled out SAP S4/HANA to provide ‘real-time’ insights into key business decisions. As one of the first Middle East customers to go live with the solution in September, Group IT Head Vinay Sharma reflects on the benefits that are expected to come.
SUSE to demo solutions for zero-downtime environments
SUSE has announced that it will showcase its four main product offerings for the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) and Zero Downtime Environments – mission critical Enterprise Linux, private cloud, storage and Linux management – during its participation at GITEX.
Fit for the task
With 63 local branches and 24 more spread across four continents, Lebanon’s Bank of Beirut was challenged with coping with the huge quantity of documents involved in its daily operations. As the bank sought to provide faster, more accurate and secure services, it opted for an enterprise content management solution that would streamline business processes.
Foot on the gas
Nakilat IT Manager Hamad Suwaid speaks about how the company modernised its hardware, software and applications that resided in its data centre.
SAP to showcase government innovations at GITEX
According to a report by consultancy firm Deloitte, the UAE government can save nearly $5 billion if the country undergoes full digital transformation.
Alibaba Cloud, SAP China announce new cloud-based solutions
Alibaba Cloud and SAP China have recently announced plans to make three SAP cloud-based solutions available to China customers by the end of this year.
Microsoft Azure named leader in Gartner’s IaaS Magic Quadrant
Gartner has identified Microsoft Azure as a leader in the analyst firm’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Etisalat launches virtual telecom function
Etisalat has announced that it successfully on-boarded its first virtualised telecom function using Affirmed Networks’ virtualised Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) solution, which follows the launch of its first NFV telco cloud.
SUSE brings Live Patching to SAP applications
SUSE has recently introduced SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching to enable customers run workloads on the SAP HANA platform. The SAP NetWeaver technology platform and other SAP applications reduce the business disruption caused by planned downtime.