According to the latest findings revealed by Dell Technologies on its ‘Digital Transformation Index 2020,’ the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to accelerating digital transformation and embracing cutting-edge technologies.
Article by: Charbel Khneisser, Regional Director - Technical Sales, META at Riverbed Technology
Almost 5 years ago, augmented reality (AR) leaped into our consciousness in the form of a Pokemon GO game where gamers went ga-ga over catching and collecting digitised fictional character Pokemon using their smartphones.
“We have a deep need and desire to connect. Everything in the history of communication technology suggests we will take advantage of every opportunity to connect more richly and deeply,” says Peter Morville, president of Semantic Studios.
The Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) published a public consultation related to the Wireless Local Area Network (Wi-Fi 6) and CRA's proposed policy for assigning the full frequency band (5925 - 7125 MHz) to this network.
By Ammar Hamdan, head of sales for MEA and the Indian subcontinent, Enea
The Internet landscape in the Gulf region has grown tremendously in time. The latest report by RIPE NCC highlights the market development, infrastructure, and Internet routing within Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen.
Data centers have become the fifth utility and as critical as water, electricity, gas and telecoms, observes a UK based data and analytics company report. It attributes the acceleration of their importance to the COVID-19 pandemic .
It was clear enough during the virus-ridden year of 2020 that physical sales channels rather than digital ones made it hard for all industries, including the ICT industry to operate at an optimal level. Despite the best efforts, delivering result-oriented customer engagement initiatives suffered, to say the least.
Known with many names such as ‘edge data centre’, ‘intelligent edge’,’edge node’ or just ‘the edge’, edge computing has come out of the shell and garnering interest from mobile systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) as it fulfills the requirements for low latency and high resilience.
