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• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Smart Dubai platform is the backbone of the city's transformation

  Aisha bin Bishr, director general at Smart Dubai Office, talks about the Smart Data platform and soon-to-be-unveiled UAE Pass, a digital ID and signature which is being touted as one of the foundations a city needs to transform

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  The IBM and Red Hat mega-merger: Who stands to benefit most?

  IBM is in the midst of a multi-year repositioning as it looks to offset the downturn in enterprise demand for its traditional, on-premise offerings by courting enterprise cloud buyers, prompting it to place its biggest bet yet on open source

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  AWS urges enterprises to embrace their heritage when facing down disruption from startups

  At this year's AWS Transformation Day, the cloud giant's enterprise strategist, Miriam McLemore, talked about why enterprises should be looking to embrace their heritage and legacy when moving to the cloud

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  How Avanade keeps pace with Microsoft and the market

  Systems integrator Avanade has had to adapt to Microsoft’s evolution into an “ecosystem platform” that includes open-source software

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Philips looks to artificial intelligence to train its workforce

  Healthcare company is looking to AI, chatbots and learning playlists to help staff learn new skills more quickly as it adapts changing business priorities

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Firms will use AI to automate HR processes within two years

  Companies are gearing up to automate HR processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning, while at the same time battling with outdated IT systems

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  SMEs use fintech in fight against online giants, but fears remain

  Online SMEs are turning to financial technology to help them make payment processes easy for customers as they try to compete with online giants

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

  Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost

  Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  New cloud storage services for Microsoft Azure at Ignite 2018

  Microsoft launches Data Box hardware appliances for cloud ingestion, Avere vFXT cloud NAS, Ultra SSD storage based on NVMe flash and Azure Premium file storage

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Object storage: On-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

  We take a look at the object storage market and products and find offerings made to build public and private clouds that often provide a link between the two

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Asda outsources app development to support digital future

  Supermarket chain Asda is outsourcing its application development to HCL to access and build skills and experience in agile development methods

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer

  Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  Santander plans UK tech hub in Milton Keynes

  Santander is opening a UK tech hub in Milton Keynes that will have 5,000 staff

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  BMW innovation lab bears fruit with insurtech deal

  BMW has struck a deal with one of the tech startups that participated in its innovation incubator