February 16, 2020
Public Cloud Services in the MENA region to Grow 21% in 2020
Government initiatives such as Smart Dubai, Smart Abu Dhabi, Israel’s Cloud Strategy and Bahrain’s Cloud First Policy of 2019 have bolstered cloud adoption among large organizations in the region,” said Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner.
February 10, 2020
Gartner CIO survey identifies key challenges for governments
Governments are struggling in many areas, following disruptions including changes in leadership, reorganizations and funding shortfalls. For many government CIOs, disruption will affect their IT budget growth, and the funding and launch of new business initiatives will suffer,” said Alia Mendonsa, senior research director at Gartner.
February 5, 2020
Avaya and Afiniti expand partnership
Avaya AI Routing with Afiniti AiRo identifies subtle and valuable patterns in human interactions, which facilitates better pairings between a customer and the optimal agent to drive better outcomes from resulting conversations. The product represents a significant step-change in the availability of AI-driven behavioural pairing technology for organizations of any size, rather than solely large enterprises, expanding the total addressable market by millions of agents.
February 3, 2020
GEMS Dubai American Academy launches the CoE for AI and Robotics
The vision of the Center of Excellence is to promote educational and research activities in the field of AI and Robotics. It bridges the gap between businesses and educators with a distinctive capability to harness the intellectual energy of the academic world with state-of-the-art AI and robotics technologies.
January 27, 2020
GE Healthcare unveils new imaging tech
For healthcare executives, the new offerings help save costs, improve technology utilization, and increase patient volumes. Clinicians also will benefit from intuitive workflows, improved diagnostic confidence and less rework, allowing them to devote more time for patients.
January 27, 2020
Network Security must keep up with VSS
The Middle East is one of the fastest-growing markets for video surveillance systems. Research firm MarketsandMarkets reports that a big driver for the increasing use of video surveillance systems globally is in large part due to the increasing concerns for public safety and security, prompting deployment at airports, malls, schools, office buildings, public places and so on.
January 25, 2020
Using AI to level the cyber playing field
According to one report, cyber criminals cost the global economy a total of $1.5 trillion last year. And the rate of growth for cybercrime looks likely to continue for some time unless organizations make a significant paradigm shift as to how they think about and deploy security.
January 8, 2020
American Hospital in Dubai to offer robotic surgery
The launch of the service aligns with the overarching goals of the UAE Centennial 2071 and the recent three-year budget cycle (2020-2022) approved by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
