Cloud and Enterprise Business

PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, and NAVER Business Platform (NBP), the leading IT Infrastructure and cloud services provider in South Korea providing a broad spectrum of IT services and public cloud services via the NAVER  CLOUD  PLATFORM,  today  announced  a  bilateral  interconnect  collaboration  to provide South Korean and multi-national enterprises direct, on-demand connections to the NAVER  Business  Platform  with  PCCW  Global’s  Console  Connect  Software-Defined Interconnection) platform.

UAE’s leading telecommunications services provider, du is driving major digital transformation with Oracle to accelerate the uptake of the UAE Federal Government Network (FEDNet) program that provides a common infrastructure resource for any federal government entity. This implementation will allow du to offer cost effective, integrated, secure and scalable cloud infrastructure services to power various Smart Government initiatives including ‘mGovernment’ and ‘Big Data’.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 69 Availability Zones within 22 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for nine more Availability Zones across three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, and South Africa.

To support its customers around the world, Oracle announced, at the annual Oracle OpenWorld, that it plans to launch 20 new Oracle Cloud regions by the end of 2020, for a total of 36 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions. This expansion includes regions in new countries and dual, geographically separated regions in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, U.K., EU, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and new government regions in the U.K. and Israel. In addition, Oracle is announcing updates to its roadmap for its interconnect with Microsoft Azure.

du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has taken a pioneering leap in the cloud arena by becoming the first cloud provider to be VMware Cloud verified in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. This accreditation solidifies du’s ability to support and drive cloud implementation for government entities and enterprises in the UAE.

Infinet Wireless, the global leader in fixed broadband wireless connectivity, announced the launch of its new corporate brand identity, in keeping with the significant potential of the 5G era.

Enterprise customers with international operations can now connect their public and private clouds with unprecedented network service availability and security

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, has introduced ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 – next-generation cloud SmartNICs and I/O Processing Unit (IPU) solutions.

B-Yond, the California-based leader in proven world-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) based network automation solutions, signed a collaboration agreement with Centrigent, one of the UAE’s leading Consulting 4.0 and Technology Operations firms, to bring the patent-pending INFINITY platform to the Telecom Services Providers (TSP) in the Middle East.