Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has teamed up with Daimler AG, the world’s biggest luxury-car maker, as an investor in a $500 million-fundraising bid by Dubai-based ride-hailing company, Careem.
Mitigating risk in the age of digital transformation
Srinivasan C.R, Senior Vice President, Global Product Management & Data Centre Services at Tata Communications, on how to adapt security …
First look: Apple’s new MacBook Pro
Apple’s latest MacBook Pro gets a performance boost with Intel’s 7th generation Kaby Lake processor.
US-based Zaloni signs strategic VAR partnership with ixtel
Data lake company Zaloni has signed a strategic value-added reseller partnership with UAE-based digital services company ixtel, as a part …
Western Union bot empowers Messenger users to transfer money
Starting off as a service for users in the US, funds can be received into billions of bank accounts around the world or in cash at half a million global retail agent locations from the world’s largest metro areas to remote villages.
EastNet applies AI to fight financial crimes
EastNets, which provides compliance, risk and payments solutions, has integrated artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its family of solutions. en.SafeWatch PaymentGuard …
SDN: The game changer for today’s networks?
Software-defined networking (SDN) opens up closed network platforms, allowing for greater oversight and more rapid provisioning of new services, writes …
Microsoft resurrects Windows XP patches
Microsoft yesterday followed May’s unprecedented release of security updates for expired operating systems, including Windows XP, by issuing another dozen …
Pure Storage presents software updates at Pure Accelerate
Pure Storage has announced its premier all-flash data platform for the cloud era at its second annual customer and partner …
Veeam’s Mike Resseler on data protection strategies
Reseller ME catches up with Mike Resseler, director, Product Management, Veeam Software, at the firm’s third edition of customer and …
Musafir.com boosts e-commerce offering with Amadeus deal
The agreement will see Amadeus provide the company with its business intelligence technologies and access to global travel content through the Amadeus system, for the benefit of Musafir.com’s customers across the GCC region.
UAE firms urged to secure IoT alongside traditional IT
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain a strong footing in the GCC across different sectors ranging from manufacturing and transportation to energy, according to a recent report by Booz Allen Hamilton.
How partners can differentiate in the cloud economy
Richard McLeod, global VP, Enterprise Software Channels, BlackBerry, explains how regional channel partners can thrive in the cloud-driven economy. There …
AWS Greengrass is now available to all customers
With AWS Greengrass, devices can run AWS Lambda functions to perform tasks locally, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices while leveraging the full processing, analytics, and storage power of the AWS Cloud.
How data-literate is your organisation?
The Middle East is being swamped with data. The increasing number of people, devices and businesses connecting to the Internet …
Manual v machine: When will robots appear in the workplace?
When Dubai Police announced that ‘robocops’ would patrol the emirate’s streets by May, many could have been forgiven for thinking …
IST launches new cloud platform
IST has announced the launch of IST OmniCloud, a cloud-based digital customer experience platform, and IST Sentiment Analysis.
Hitachi to help customers enhance content-centric apps
Hitachi Data Systems has announced major updates to the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) portfolio, providing a path to digital transformation for enterprises while achieving “significant cost savings” over public cloud.
The best of both worlds: Dell EMC World 2017
In its second annual Las Vegas ‘World’ outing since the completion of the record $67 billion merger, Dell EMC laid …
Sharper edge: Microsoft’s Azure compute head Corey Sanders
James Dartnell sat down with Microsoft’s director of Azure Compute, Corey Sanders, at the firm’s Build 2017 conference in Seattle, …