CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

At yesterdays Oracle Cloud Summit in Dubai, the company made several key announcements, highlighting not only its deepening commitment to the region but also the exciting trajectory of AI and cloud adoption across the UAE and KSA. A key point shared during the summit was how the Kingdoms organizations are increasingly investing in AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2025

Migration toS/4HANA must be completed by 2030, and thats only if they buy into SAPs special three-year reprieve beyond standard maintenance end-of-life at the end of 2027. In contrast, justunder 30%follow the standard set by SAP and have chosen the public cloud as their hosting option. SAP user companies are up against the clock.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

Oracle has added a new AI Agent Studio to its Fusion Cloud business applications, at no additional cost, in an effort to retain its enterprise customers as rival software vendors ramp up their agent-based offerings with the aim of garnering more market share. billion in 2024, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 45.8%

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2019, Gartner analyst Dave Cappuccio issued the headline-grabbing prediction that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centers and moved everything to the cloud. So, Cappuccio wasnt totally wrong; cloud is growing fast, but on-prem isnt declining as precipitously as anticipated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 27, 2025

All told then, migration to S/4HANA would need to be completed by the end of 2030. DSAG: On-prem customers must not be pushed to the cloud In general, the delay is welcomed,said Jens Hungershausen, chairman of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG), commenting on the report.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC. Adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions will enhance flexibility and compliance, deepening partnerships with global providers.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Citi is using Amazon Braket, a cloud-based service, to see how well quantum computers could handle portfolio optimization tasks. It works with regular cloud computing and AI tools, so businesses can start integrating quantum capabilities into their existing operations. Full cloud deployment is also possible per customer request.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With the rise of digital technologies, from smart cities to advanced cloud infrastructure, the Kingdom recognizes that protecting its digital landscape is paramount to safeguarding its economic future and national security. The Kingdoms Vision 2030 is also a driving force behind its cybersecurity efforts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Data sovereignty and the development of local cloud infrastructure will remain top priorities in the region, driven by national strategies aimed at ensuring data security and compliance. The skills gap, particularly in AI, cloud computing, and cybersecurity, remains a critical issue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Like the PC revolution of the 80s and 90s, and the rise of cloud computing and SaaS in the early 2000s, when everyone has access to the same tools, its the way theyre used that confers a competitive advantage. McKinsey has calculated that global demand for data center capacity could rise at an annual rate of 19% to 22% from 2023 to 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Proof of this is the KSA Cloud First Policy, announced in October 2020 by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and InformationTechnologies, after the launch of a cloud data center in the city of Jeddah, by Oracle. The importance of education in supporting the success of Saudi Vision 2030 cannot be overstated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

AI-friendly buyers drive spending Buyers comfortable with AI could drive about half of all consumer spending in the US, Germany, and Australia by 2030, the reports claims, amounting to $4.4 Sellers that fail to adopt AI concierges will probably suffer, and bigly, adds Lars Nyman, CMO of CUDO Compute, a cloud GPU platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

Become reinvention-ready CIOs must invest in becoming reinvention-ready, allowing their enterprise to adopt and adapt to rapid technological and market changes, says Andy Tay, global lead of Accenture Cloud First. Reinvention-ready companies are positioned to succeed in the long term, Tay observes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

The company that just turned 35 years old in the UAE will continue to invest in local infrastructure to bring cloud capabilities that will help the UAE Government entities and private sector. Cloud is the platform for innovation and provides a rich source of services for digital reinvention. said Jasim Al Awadi, CICTO (Acting) at du.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Todo esto con el anuncio de SAP de la finalizacin del mantenimiento de ERP para el 2030 . Para Jos Luis Sierra, CIO Gasib, los desafos en materia de TI se han centrado en dos focos: llegar a una empresa 100% cloud y mejorar atencin al cliente y el ecosistema de proveedores que atienden nuestro servicio como colaboradores.

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Network World

JANUARY 29, 2025

The company cites a McKinsey report , which states that 60% to 70% of AI workloads are expected to shift to real-time inference by 2030. As the technology evolves, our industry leadership, best-in-class edge-to-cloud connectivity, programmable network and assets will enable us to meet these needs and accelerate innovation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2024

The new public cloud region in Riyadh is Oracle’s second cloud region in Saudi Arabia and part of Oracle’s US $1.5 Located in Riyadh, the new cloud region will be part of a planned USD 1.5 billion investment from Oracle to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the Kingdom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Oracle has announced the launch of Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability — an app that integrates data from Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM , enabling analysis and reporting within Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By migrating its essential systems to Google Cloud, Almarai now leverages a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective platform designed to accelerate its pace of innovation and enhance resilience in a competitive global market. “Our Our partnership with Google Cloud reflects our dedication to innovation and excellence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

And yes, I recognize that AI is different because previous hot technologies such as client/server and cloud didn’t get a parking space in the boss’s brain box. And despite Gartner forecasting that by 2030 every dollar of IT spend will have an AI component , CIOs nevertheless need to broaden the collective technology imagination beyond AI.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

billion by 2030, according to a report from MarketsAndMarkets. Additionally, Nvidia has partnered with cloud service providers and other vendors, such as Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and Google Cloud to make its NIM microservices available through their enterprise AI platforms such as OCI, Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry among others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Google has opened a second cloud region in Germany as part of its plan to invest $1.85 billion in German digital infrastructure by 2030. Other Google Cloud regions in Europe include locations such as Milan, Paris, Zurich, Warsaw, Madrid, Turin, Belgium, Finland, The Netherlands, and London. Cloud Computing, Data Center, Google

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

In a report released in early January, Accenture predicts that AI agents will replace people as the primary users of most enterprise systems by 2030. Mitre had to create its own system, Clancy added, because most of the existing tools use vendor-managed cloud infrastructure for the AI inference part. And thats just the beginning.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model thats designed to let enterprise IT professionals order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks. But thats beginning to change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

THG Ingenuity Cloud Services’ commercial footprint is equally robust. The company’s offerings are also diverse, with hybrid, public and private clouds – including a Managed VMware Cloud – and services that encompass everything from Infrastructure-as-a-Service to high performance computing, custom software, and backup and data protection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Thanks to AI, 5G-A, cloud, and other technologies, the physical world is merging with the digital world. The new Global Digitalization Index or GDI jointly created with IDC measures the maturity of a country’s ICT industry by factoring in multiple indicators for digital infrastructure, including computing, storage, cloud, and green energy.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The heightened demand is set to pose challenges for tech giants and cloud providers who rely on consistent energy to maintain operations, and experts predict these constraints could affect innovation and the rollout of future AI applications, the report added. An AI hyperscale data center can consume as much as 100 MW of power.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Seattle 2030, with a skyport at the top and a view of the Seattle waterfront and Space Needle in the distance. Constructed predominantly of mass timber, with a hybrid system of steel exoskeletal frames and concrete cores, Seattle 2030 is a hexagonal configuration defined by three interconnected sub-towers with a central multi-storied void.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. Historically, we’ve been more multicloud or hybrid cloud, with private services as well,” says Claire Dickson, DS Smith’s CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2024

SkillsBuild courses are offered in more than 20 languages, including Spanish, covering topics such as communication, leadership skills, AI, analytics, cybersecurity, cloud, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A fleet of green data centers and a well-advanced plan to stop using fossil-fuel powered vehicles are among the key steps driving Intermax’s mission to be the most sustainable cloud services provider in the Netherlands. It aims to become carbon neutral in 2027 and carbon negative by 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“The barriers confronting organizations in South Africa that want to achieve carbon neutral status by 2030 are significant. Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Providing hardware, software, and IT solutions and services, the company also delivers an extensive array of cloud offerings from dedicated private clouds to deployments with the world’s largest hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The cloud computing company has been working to cut its water use, paring it down 39% since 2021. based company released its Datacenter Community Pledge in which it vows to “design and operate our datacenters to support societys climate goals and become carbon negative, water positive and zero waste before 2030.”

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Network World

AUGUST 28, 2024

This achievement sets the technology on a course to reach its projected early fault-tolerant phase, which is expected to arrive around 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

In the coming years, the region will see a surge in investments focused on AI capabilities, spanning areas such as data governance, cloud infrastructures, foundation models, and the architecture needed to support these advanced technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

One recent example from the cloud computing space is Googles announcement of the Umoja fiber optic cable route , which connects two of the continents strongest economies, Kenya and South Africa. African Union, The Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa (2020-2030) , May, 2020.

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