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Qareeb Data Centres and Gcore sign MoU in Middle East

Gcore and Qareeb Data Centres have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for digital infrastructure in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Gcore's artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and Edge products will be integrated with Qareeb's data center platform, as part of plans to meet growing...

November 29, 2024

Middle East

Quantum Transistors secures funding from European Council

Israeli quantum computing startup Quantum Transistors has secured funding of up to €17.5 million ($19 million) from the European Innovation Commission. The council selected 68 companies that will receive an estimated €411 million ($446.1m) in funding, of which up to €165 million ($179m) is in...

July 28, 2024

Israel

Grid Telecom signs MoU to build Greece-Saudi Arabia subsea cable system

Grid Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Electricity-owned Dawiyat Integrated to build a subsea cable system connecting Greece to Saudi Arabia, and other major destinations ...

July 27, 2024

Saudi Arabia

ADNOC partners with e& for private 5G wireless networks

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has paired with telco e& to build a private 5G wireless network that spans 11,000 square kilometers which will be the largest private 5G wireless network ever built in the energy industry.“This landmark project with e& is a milestone step in A...

July 06, 2024

Abu Dhabi

Du to unveil cloud and sovereign AI services for UAE

Du, an Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC)-owned company is set to deploy Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to the government and public sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company will focus its offering on Dubai and the Northern Emirates and wi...

June 13, 2024

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Ooredoo Group names Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub

Qatari telco Ooredoo Group has named Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub, its newly established carrier-neutral data center branch, set up to provide colocation services to hyperscalers in the Middle East region.“Sunita’s appointment marks an exciting milestone in our journey to trans...

June 05, 2024

Qatar

DataVolt unveils debut datacenter in Uzbekistan

Saudi firm DataVolt has broken ground on its debut data center which will offer 10MW via a $150 million investment. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan this week. DataVolt said the data center features a modular infrastructure design, allowing for scalable solutions able to accommodate various workloads “...

May 08, 2024

Saudi Arabia

LightSolver makes laser-based computing system generally available

Laser-based computing startup LightSolver has made its LPU100 system generally available to selected enterprise clients of LightSolver via the company’s new cloud platform. This system utilizes all-optical coupled lasers that require no electronics to compute and combines the company’s all-op...

March 22, 2024

Israel

HPE begins production at new facility in Riyah, Saudi Arabia

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has started production at its new facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, manufacturing servers for the company’s ProLiant Gen11 portfolio. The company first announced this production site as a partnership between HPE and digital solutions provider Alfanar in Februa...

March 09, 2024

Saudi Arabia

Armada partners with Edarat Group to deploy data center modules in Middle East

Edge data center firm Armadathis week announced a strategic collaboration with Edarat Group, a data center engineering consulting and cloud services firm in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Following the terms of this partnership, Edarat Group will deploy Armada's modular data c...

March 08, 2024

Middle East

DustPhotonics raises $24 million in new funding round

Silicon photonics company DustPhotonics has raised $24 million in a Series B follow-on funding round. This funding came from both new and existing investors, including Sienna Venture Capital, Greenfield Partners, Atreides Management, and Exor Ventures. The company revealed in a statement that ...

February 22, 2024

Israel

Batelco and e& to land Al Khaleej subsea cable in UAE

Telecoms firms Batelco and e& announced on February 14 that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to land the Al Khaleej subsea cable system in the UAE. This MoU will see the 1,400km-long cable connecting the UAE to Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. Nabil Baccouche, group chief carr...

February 16, 2024

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

SpaceX to de-orbit Starlink satellites that could potentially cause failures

SpaceX has revealed plans to de-orbit about 100 of its early Starlink satellites after finding a “common error” that could potentially cause failures. In a recent update on the company site, it revealed plans to perform controlled descents of the early-version 1 Starlink satellites in the comi...

February 14, 2024

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Yahsat and analytics provider Bayanat agree to an all-share merger

In a joint announcement earlier this week, Satellite operator Yahsat and analytics provider Bayanat revealed that they have agreed to an all-share merger. The combined entity will be worth 15 billion dirhams ($4.1 billion), with the new entity named Space42 with Bayanat being the legal entity ...

December 23, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

UAE & Egypt to collaborate on data center projects

The UAE's Ministry of Investment and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to invest in Egypt's digital infrastructure. This MoU could lead to the development of 1GW of data center capacity in Egypt, though timelines have n...

December 22, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

DataVolt plans a new data center facility in Uzubekistan

New Saudi firm DataVolt has revealed plans for a new data center campus in Uzbekistan and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Digital Technologies, the Ministry of Energy, and the Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to deve...

December 04, 2023

Saudi Arabia

Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel

Last month, Elon Musk mentioned that he would look into providing Gaza with its Starlink service to "support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza." In recent developments, Israel has responded to Musk saying Starlink's satellite network will only be allowed to ...

November 29, 2023

Israel

Gaza completely loses Internet access again after another outage

Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off...

November 01, 2023

Israel

Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere

High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to anno...

October 31, 2023

Abu Dhabi

Nokia Reveals Plans to Build Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE

Finnish vendor Nokia has revealed plans to launch an Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, to drive its Cloud RAN in the Middle East and Africa region. In a release, the vendor explained that the initiative will increase the regional focus of its established collaborations with Dell Technologies ...

September 27, 2023

Dubai

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