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August 15, 2020

Pure Storage partners with Cohesity Forge to bring rapid recovery at scale

Pure and Cohesity have formed this partnership based on strong customer demand for an integrated all-flash data protection solution that empowers customers to easily, quickly, and reliably back up and recover their data at scale.
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August 15, 2020

Data centers: The unseen villain in the climate change combat

Is watching Netflix for half an hour as bad for the world as commuting four miles in an ordinary car? So, in October 2019, online blog "Big Think" claimed in a story that quickly made headlines.
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August 15, 2020

Study reveals 94% organizations experienced a cyberattack in past 12 months

Only four out of ten security leaders say they can answer the fundamental question, “How secure, or at risk, are we?” with a high level of confidence, despite the prevalence of business-impacting cyberattacks.
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August 15, 2020

Protecting a mobile workforce with hybrid DNS security

Meeting the demand for greater speed and mobility means that internet traffic from mobile workers tends not to be backhauled to an organisation’s network via corporate points of presence such as servers or routers. As a result, DNS traffic to and from an organisation’s mobile users will not generally be visible to corporate security monitoring.
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August 15, 2020

UAE headquartered Foundation Holdings to invest $42m in India’s Ed-tech

Foundation Holdings, a strategic global investment firm headquartered in the UAE announced an investment of US$42 million in Toppr Technologies Pvt Ltd, an AI ed-tech platform. Toppr provides the widest K12 syllabus coverage with thousands of course combinations. Its AI ed-tech platform currently boasts more than 10.3 million learners and enables the students to prepare for various school.
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August 15, 2020

Dubai Municipality visits Moro Hub to discuss joint cooperation

The visit aimed to discuss the opportunities of the joint cooperation between the two parties, where the municipality can enhance its capabilities by adopting more digital technologies to increase efforts in boosting its citizen happiness index, ensuring performance excellence and provide citizens and residents with the best place to live in.
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August 15, 2020

Cloud kitchen solutions provider iKcon secures $10m funding

Currently iKcon operates ten cloud kitchens across the UAE with plans to start operations in Saudi Arabia in Q4 2020 and other countries in the region throughout 2021.
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August 15, 2020

DIFC FinTech Hive receives over 600 applications from start-ups

30 per cent of applications were from UAE based firms, demonstrating a strong pipeline of financial technology talent within the Emirates. 46 per cent came from the MENA region and 24 per cent were received from global firms.
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August 15, 2020

The Great Skills Reset: Ways to Prepare for the Middle East’s Digital Economy

Change can be daunting, not least in choosing a new career path. If the pandemic is to represent an opportunity to pursue a ’Great Reset’ of our economic and social foundations, it’s imperative that we transform how we up- and reskill.
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August 9, 2020

Sharjah Performing Arts Academy completes first academic year

The dedicated performing arts academy in the Middle East welcomed its first cohort of BA students in September 2019 from the UAE, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Morocco and Iraq. Following a conservatoire template, the highly select students were immersed in intensive, practice-based training and performance for the first half of the academic year.
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