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du unveils ‘Cloud Miner’ its bitcoin cloud mining as a service

The company unveiled the service during a launch event at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa

Saudi freezes rents in Riyadh for 5 years: Inside the boldest housing reform

TCS launches AI-powered innovation hub with Google Cloud in Riyadh

TCS has been recognised globally for its partnership with Google Cloud, receiving multiple awards at Google Cloud Next 2025

Oracle pledges $14bn investment in Saudi Arabia

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to deploy 50,000 AMD GPUs for large-scale AI

The latest announcement builds on Oracle and AMD’s joint efforts to provide AMD Instinct GPU platforms on OCI

Core42's Mohammed Retmi on how sovereign cloud, AI are reshaping UAE’s digital economy

Core42’s Mohammed Retmi on how sovereign cloud, AI are reshaping UAE’s digital economy

The VP of Sovereign Public Cloud at Core42 outlines how sovereign cloud is driving innovation, compliance, and the UAE’s push to be a global AI hub

Huawei Cloud powers Saudi digital transformation with 2025 Developer Conference

Huawei Cloud powers Saudi digital transformation with 2025 Developer Conference

A central focus of the conference was on equipping local developers with specialised training, advanced tools, and globally recognised certifications

Christian Klein SAP CEO on Cloud, data, and AI: How to harness the new engines of progress

Cloud, data and AI: How to harness the new engines of progress

A cloud migration, consequently, is more than an IT project: it is the digital foundation for a thorough modernisation of the entire enterprise, for moving from “good” to “great”

How Microsoft and Core42 are powering the UAE’s digital sovereignty

How Microsoft and Core42 are powering the UAE’s digital sovereignty

The UAE’s public cloud spending reached $2.95bn in 2024 and is forecasted to soar to $6.47bn by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 21.7 per cent

Huawei strengthens cybersecurity with unified, AI-powered solutions

Huawei’s new Xinghe Intelligent Unified SASE Solution addresses growing cybersecurity threats resulting from cloud migration, branch breakouts, and hybrid working

Gulf Business tech panel: Dubai’s key players pave next frontier in innovation

The event brought together leading minds from telecoms, AI, cloud, and blockchain — fields rapidly becoming the foundation of the region’s economic future

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Abu Dhabi partners with Microsoft, Core42 for sovereign cloud system

The initiative will enhance government services by increasing efficiency, improving accessibility for citizens and residents, creating greater transparency

Saudi's stc Group, SambaNova launch sovereign AI cloud platform

Saudi’s stc Group, SambaNova launch sovereign AI cloud platform

This new platform is set to run the world’s largest open-source frontier model, powered by the fastest inference speeds for Llama 405B

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Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem to contribute over $74bn to UAE economy in 4 years

The report, launched at GITEX Global 2024, found that Microsoft, its ecosystem and IT departments in customer companies will add 41,800 new skilled IT jobs into the UAE economy between 2024-28

AWS, e& sign over $1bn deal to drive cloud, AI growth in region

AWS, e& sign over $1bn deal to drive cloud, AI growth in region

This collaboration comes as Middle Eastern businesses increasingly shift to cloud-based operations, with public cloud adoption expected to unlock $733bn in economic value by 2033

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GITEX GLOBAL 2024: Two mega venues, one massive tech event

The world’s largest technology exhibition, GITEX GLOBAL, returns for its 44th edition, bringing together tech innovators, start-ups, and investors from across the globe

New Oracle Database@AWS to ensure seamless cloud integration

New Oracle Database@AWS to ensure seamless cloud integration

The service is expected to be available in preview later this year, with wider availability planned for 2025

Fintech Surge

A sneak peek at the keynote speakers of 24 Fintech 2024

The 24 Fintech Summit promises to be a landmark event for Saudi Arabia as well as the GCC region, offering attendees a comprehensive view of the trends, challenges, and opportunities set to shape the industry in the coming years

Oracle

Oracle launches second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Oracle’s footprint expands to eight cloud regions in the Middle East and North Africa region

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Microsoft’s latest outage caused by ‘DDoS attack’

Microsoft revealed that a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack triggered the Azure cloud application outage in the US

Moody’s upgrades Turkey’s ratings to B1 on tight monetary policy

Turkey announces $30bn incentives package for high tech areas

President Erdogan said that Ankara would unveil an incentive packages for high tech areas totalling $30bn

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Core42, Qualcomm launch Compass 2.0 to advance AI solutions

The platform, which soft-launched in January, has successfully processed approximately 150 billion tokens since its inception

IT MICROSOFT-BDOS

World’s ‘biggest IT fail’ in numbers: Billions lost, millions of devices impacted, thousands of flights hit

The outage affected major companies including Amazon, Delta Airlines, Bank of America, and Visa among others

CrowdStrike CEO: “This is not a security incident or cyberattack”

CrowdStrike’s share price fell over 3 per cent in trade on the NASDAQ amid a ‘blue screen of death outage’

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Microsoft lays blame at CrowdStrike’s door for global outage

Microsoft’s cloud unit said it was currently investigating potential options its customers can take for mitigation

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LSEG platform suffers widespread downtime, trading hit

During Asian trading hours, LSEG said its news services were experiencing a global technical issue that prevented news from being published on its platform

Microsoft

Microsoft global outage: Major banks, airlines and media impacted

Microsoft attributed the error to a recent update from CrowdStrike

Amazon Web Services' Kevin Miller talks about the company's growth in the region

AWS’ Kevin Miller on AI, sustainability and plans for the region

In an interview with Gulf Business, Kevin Miller, VP – Global Data Centres at Amazon Web Services (AWS), delves into the company’s significant expansions and strategic initiatives in the MENAT region

du teams up with Oracle to launch hyperscale cloud, sovereign AI services for govt, public sector

du to launch hyperscale cloud, sovereign AI services for govt, public sector

The telecom operator has teamed up with Oracle, which remains the only hyperscaler capable of delivering AI and a suite of cloud services across dedicated, public, and hybrid cloud environments globally

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Oracle expands footprint in Morocco with new investments in R&D

An estimated 40 percent of the new positions will be located outside Morocco’s regions of greater Casablanca and Rabat-Salé-Kenitra

Insights: The future of cloud adoption in the Middle East

Insights: The future of cloud adoption in the Middle East

Cloud adoption in the Middle East is significantly transforming the digital landscape – but what does the road ahead look like?

Huawei

Huawei continues rebound with strongest earnings growth since 2019

While the company’s core ICT infrastructure business remained stable, its cloud business grew by more than a fifth, generating revenue of CNY55.3bn