SAP’s regional head has heaped praise on the firm for becoming the first global technology company to boast data centres …
Cloud drives Saudi ICT market to top $33 billion
Cloud investment is gathering momentum, with organisations in Saudi Arabia increasing software spend by 5.5 percent, boosting the Kingdom’s ICT market to $33 billion (SAR 127 billion), according to a recent report by IDC. 0 4132Amazon leads global public cloud race: Gartner
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc.
IBM, Red Hat expand cloud alliance
IBM and Red Hat have recently expanded their long-standing relationship, which to enable customers benefit from the combined power of both companies’ technologies in private and public clouds.
SAP’s public cloud data centre goes live in Saudi Arabia
The landmark launch of the SAP public cloud data centre, the centerpiece of SAP’s 4-year SAR 285 million Saudi investment plan, was announced at SAP NOW, a signature event in Riyadh.
V2 Public Cloud offering goes live in Saudi Arabia
Virtual Vision (V2), has officially opened services for V2 Public Cloud – a public cloud offering based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) initiated in partnership with CloudSigma and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
Vertiv: 2018 will see the advent of Gen 4 data centres
The next-generation data centre will exist beyond walls, seamlessly integrating core facilities with a more intelligent, mission-critical edge of network, …
Worldwide public cloud services market set to hit $260bn in 2017: Gartner
The highest revenue growth will come from cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service [IaaS]), which is projected to grow 36.6 percent in 2017 to reach $34.7 billion.
F5 CEO Locoh-Donou: We will shift focus to software
Based on what you’ve observed in your first two months in the job, what are you going to change? No …
Commvault urges businesses prepare for GDPR compliance
Businesses need to urgently prepare for the arrival of EU GDPR compliance regulations, or risk being among the first to be penalised when the regulations take effect in 12 months’ time, according to Commvault.
SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner defends S/4HANA cloud strategy
The co-founder of the German software giant SAP, Dr Hasso Plattner, took to the stage at the Sapphire conference last week to talk about the company’s latest Leonardo product and why he sees its next generation ERP S/4HANA’s future as residing in the cloud.