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Cloudera honours 2024 Data Impact Awards winning organisations

Arnold Pinto 23/09/2024

MET winners felicitated in Dubai Cloudera, the Santa Clara, California-headquartered global leader in hybrid data, analytics, and AI platforms, honoured the winners of its 2024 Data Impact Awards at the Middle East edition of EVOLVE24 held at the Museum of the Future in Dubai City on September

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NetApp Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Enhance Cloud-Based Data Services

PR News Desk 19/09/2024

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced the expansion of its decade-long relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help joint customers continuously fuel business growth and innovation in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. Signing a new Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) builds on the commitment to benefit joint

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Oracle Announces New AI-Powered Products For Enterprises, App Development, and Data Intelligence

PR News Desk 12/09/2024

Oracle has announced new AI-powered products for enterprises, application development, and data intelligence at Oracle CloudWorld 2024 in Las Vegas, USA, as innovators from across the globe converge at the tech giant’s largest community gathering of the year. Below is a summary of key announcements with links to the full press releases with further information: […]

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In a first, Cloudera brings EVOLVE24 to Dubai City

Arnold Pinto 12/09/2024

At the Museum of the Future Cloudera, the Santa Clara, California-headquartered global leader in hybrid data, analytics, and AI platforms, is set to ignite the future of data technology at its highly anticipated EVOLVE24 conference in Dubai in September. EVOLVE24 is a global movement to redefine the future of data management and artificial intelligence (AI). […]

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Zebra Technologies Adds New Deep Learning Tools to Aurora Machine Vision Software

PR News Desk 26/08/2024

Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a leading digital solution provider enabling businesses to intelligently connect data, assets, and people, today announced a series of advanced AI features enhancing its Aurora machine vision software to provide deep learning capabilities for complex visual inspection use cases.   Sixty-one percent of manufacturing

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Data Breach Costs for Businesses Continue Their Upward Trajectory in the Middle East Reaching an Average of SAR 32.80 Million

PR News Desk 26/08/2024

IBM (NYSE: IBM) released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report revealing the average cost of a data breach for businesses in the Middle East reached SAR 32.80 million in 2024. This represents an increase of nearly 10% this year, from SAR 29.90 million in 2023. According to the organizations analyzed, the top three factors that […]

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SANS Institute’s Latest Strategy Guide Reveals Key Challenges and Solutions

PR News Desk 13/08/2024

As organizations continue to fortify their cybersecurity strategies in response to an ever-evolving threat landscape, many are turning to Zero Trust architectures to safeguard their data. However, implementing Zero Trust is not without its challenges. According to a new strategy guide from the SANS Institute, “Navigating the Path to a State of Zero Trust in […]

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Veritas Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

PR News Desk 12/08/2024

Veritas Technologies, the leader in secure multi-cloud data resilience, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions (EBRSS). Veritas is the only vendor that Gartner has named a Leader in each of its last 19 enterprise backup and recovery software reports.1 Continuously […]

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Almost 90% of Businesses Use AI, But Tech and Talent Challenges Remain

PR News Desk 09/08/2024

Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics and AI, recently announced the findings from its survey, The State of Enterprise AI and Modern Data Architecture. The report – which is based on a survey of 600 IT leaders located in the U.S., EMEA, and APAC regions – explored the challenges and barriers that […]

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Zebra Technologies Takes British University’s AI Spin-out Global

PR News Desk 08/08/2024

Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA),a leading digital solution provider enabling businesses to intelligently connect data, assets, and people, is taking AI computer vision global with a portfolio as well as research and development that is infusing ‘AI eyes’ into technology that businesses and their workers are using today. “We’re bringing computer vision to

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Cloudera enhances metadata management solutions

News Editor 2 08/08/2024

With data catalogue and Iceberg REST integration Cloudera has unveiled significant updates to its metadata management solutions, designed to boost open interoperability and meet growing data security and governance demands. The new features showcased at Cloudera’s EVOLVE24 conference at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore from August 6-7, 2024, mark a

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Foodics: Harnessing the Power of Data and Technology for Smarter Restaurant Management

News Desk 30/07/2024

Foodics, a leading restaurant operations and financial management technology company in the MENA region, is revolutionizing the food and beverage industry with its cloud-based all-in-one Restaurant Management System (RMS), Point of Sale solution (POS) and payment systems that are developed in-house with hands-on industry intel. Designed to empower F&B business owners

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Deepnote Acquires Hyperquery; Enabling Organizations to Democratize AI and Data Analytics

News Desk 30/07/2024

Deepnote, the AI-powered data workspace, announced its acquisition of Hyperquery, a competitor in the data science and analytics space. This acquisition marks a significant step in Deepnote’s mission to become the centerpiece of data democratization. Deepnote has redefined collaborative data analysis by building a data workspace that enables team members to share

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NetApp Expands Intelligent Data Infrastructure Capabilities to Power Strategic Cloud Workloads

News Desk 10/07/2024

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced the introduction of new capabilities designed for strategic cloud workloads including GenAI and VMware. These enhancements to NetApp data and storage services reduce the resources and risks for customers to manage these strategic workloads across increasingly complex hybrid multicloud

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OCBC NISP banks on Cloudera to transform banking services

News Editor 2 10/07/2024

By deploying data and AI capabilities In a strategic move towards digital transformation, Jakarta-based PT Bank OCBC NISP Tbk has announced its collaboration with Cloudera, a leading data company in enterprise AI solutions. The new partnership aims to propel the Indonesian bank towards becoming a digital-first entity, enhancing customer experiences through advanced data

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Data Highlights Rising Geopolitical Risks in 2024 and the Need for Proactive Strategies

News Desk 08/07/2024

In the face of an increasingly volatile global landscape, International SOS, the world’s leading health and security services company, emphasises the need for organisations to address the dual challenges of rising geopolitical risks and the ensuing impact on employees’ mental health and wellbeing. Insights from the International SOS Risk Outlook 2024 report reveal

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Moody’s and MSCI Announce a Strategic Partnership

News Desk 01/07/2024

MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI) and Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) today announced a groundbreaking strategic partnership agreement, leveraging each other’s strengths to bring greater transparency on ESG and sustainability to markets and power better decisions. Moody’s will leverage MSCI’s sustainability data and models, which are used by the world’s largest asset managers and asset

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BlackRock to Acquire Preqin, Leading Private Markets Data Solutions Provider

News Desk 01/07/2024

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) has agreed to acquire Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data for £2.55 billion or approximately $3.2 billion in cash. Bringing together Preqin’s data and research tools with Aladdin’s complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform will create a preeminent private markets technology and data provider. The

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Cognite Recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year

News Desk 27/06/2024

Cognite, the globally recognized authority in Data and AI for industry, today announced it has won the Energy and Resources 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. This is the third year in a row Microsoft has recognized Cognite as a global leader for its ability to deliver meaningful, scalable industrial transformation through its core […]

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AppsFlyer Collaborates with AWS

News Desk 26/06/2024

AppsFlyer has announced the expansion of its AppsFlyer Data Collaboration Platform (DCP) offering for brands and commerce media networks through an integration with AWS Clean Rooms from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Leveraging AWS Clean Rooms helps brands, commerce media networks, and social platforms with multiple use cases, such as audience analysis and targeting, that