November 12, 2020
MEA Fintech Forum to discuss “Bank of the Future” in light of the pandemic
With more than 2,000 participants including regulators, financial services and fintech leaders expected to attend; the event will explore financial services beyond digital and ways to navigate the current economic crisis, possible paths to recovery, and uncover new and exciting opportunities to drive positive change in the financial services sector.
September 29, 2020
The future of brick-and-mortar retail is omnichannel
Visa's insights show that cash-only retailers have been most negatively impacted while merchants who moved online and adopted contactless payment systems have been able to better weather the economic adversity. Contactless payments usage in UAE and KSA, for example, grew by approximately 10% in Q2 2020 compared to Q1 2020
September 16, 2020
“New Normal” is a myth – future is definitely not going to be normal
The lessons companies learned in the months after the outbreak were profound. Virtual, digital and automation initiatives, for both customer interactions and internal operations, accelerated at an astonishing speed. As leadership teams dig into the complex process of recovery, we cannot afford to go back to the old way of doing things.
September 9, 2020
FTTO: The finest solution for future green network
FTTO networks require significantly less equipment, consume less energy and require less cooling. In a traditional copper-based Ethernet network with 1,000 ports, the annual electricity consumption is estimated to be 82k kWh.
August 31, 2020
COVID-19 will foster much needed collaboration in the future of work
Before the outbreak of the virus, many businesses had been experiencing lost productivity, highlighting a need for change. While the problem can’t be fixed with one solution alone, workplace teamwork is vital to not only improving productivity but also fostering creativity and problem-solving, ultimately leading to better employee retention and more successful business outputs.
August 5, 2020
Hybrid Cloud – The Future of Storage
For storage and data management, this means that the exponentially growing data volumes not only have to be constantly maintained, stored and restored as quickly as possible in the event of downtime, but that data losses should be kept to a pre-calculated minimum.