Fostering trust will be key to safeguarding business in a digital-first economy, reveals GBM Security Report 2022

Gulf Business Machines (GBM) today revealed top insights from the 9th edition of its cybersecurity report where it explored the growing significance of ‘digital trust’ for businesses, governments, and consumers in a digital-first world. The annual report examines the evolving role of cybersecurity and its impact on mitigating cybercrime as Middle East businesses accelerate their […]

Study shows public sector organizations are leading in multicloud adoption

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, announced the public sector findings of its global 2022 Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption, including the U.S. federal government and global public education sub-sectors. The research showed that more public sector organizations than average have adopted multicloud as […]

NetApp Announces Intent to Acquire Instaclustr, the Industry Leading Platform for Deploying and Managing Open-Source Data and Workflow Applications as a Service

Modern cloud applications rely on a growing set of foundational services including multiple open-source databases, data pipelines, and workflow solutions. Efficiently managing the growing complexity and operational requirements of these applications and services adds new challenges for already overstretched infrastructure, database and operations teams, increasing application integration and delivery costs, slowing application delivery and limiting […]

£2 million global Zayed Sustainability Prize opens to schools, NGOs and small businesses to develop environmental innovations

The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s global award for recognising organisations and high schools with sustainability solutions, has officially announced the 2023 cycle is open for submissions.  Small to medium enterprises, NGOs and high schools with sustainability solutions can submit entries in one of five categories: Heath, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools. The […]

Beewise’s mission to save the bees from climate change gets $80 million cash infusion

 Beewise, the climatech precision robotics company on a mission to save the bees, today announced an $80 Million Series C funding round led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with participation from Fortissimo Capital, Corner Ventures, lool ventures, Atooro Fund, Meitav Dash Investments Ltd, and Sanad Abu Dhabi. This brings the company’s […]

UAE Announces US $2 Million Global FoodTech Challenge Prize to Attract Cutting-Edge Agri-Tech Solutions

The second edition of the global FoodTech Challenge, that seeks to find the next wave of technology innovations on the cusp of transforming traditional agriculture practices, efficiently and sustainably, was launched at the EXPO2020 Dubai, and today unveils the competition’s pooled prize amount of US $2 million. Targeted at early-stage start-ups, ranging from international university-based research teams […]

IndusInd Bank’s ‘Indus Merchant Solutions’ App wins big at the Digital CX Awards 2022

IndusInd Bank announced that its flagship mobile application for merchants – ‘Indus Merchant Solutions’ has been awarded the ‘Outstanding Digital CX – SME Payments’ in the recently concluded Digital CX Awards 2022. The Digital CX Awards, is organised by Digital Banker, a globally trusted financial news service provider that recognises the world’s leading Financial Services Organisations (FSO) that blend […]