Mashreq recently announced an expansion of its partnership with Oracle Financial Services to support its global growth strategy. The bank will implement Oracle’s solutions in key international hubs such as Hong Kong, the US, and the UK. This move aims to modernize and optimize operations, ensuring an exceptional customer experience. Mohamed Abdel Razek, Mashreq’s Group … Read more
GitHub Actions is a platform for continuous integration and continuous deployment that automates build, test, and deployment activities. Using GitHub Self-Hosted Runners on AWS allows for more control over the environment in which code is built, reducing security risks and costs. Best practices include understanding security responsibilities, using short-lived AWS credentials, configuring ephemeral runners, isolating … Read more
Google is expanding its AI capabilities beyond personal use and into educational settings, providing students with access to AI features through Google Workspace for Education accounts and school-provided Chromebooks in over 100 countries. Teens who meet age requirements can access AI tools like Help Me Write and Help Me Read, as well as collaborate with … Read more
IBM is developing a new feature called Hyperstore within its Storage Scale system to improve the speed of accessing data from remote drives using NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF). This is an advancement of IBM’s GPFS file system, which allows servers to operate in parallel, speeding up file reads and writes. Frank Kraemer, an IBM IT … Read more
Galaxy is a platform used in computational biology that aims to make genomics research accessible to those without computer programming experience. BioNTech, a research team, faced challenges with its growth, including IT bottlenecks and a lack of streamlined workflow. They collaborated with AWS Professional Services to migrate and customize Galaxy on AWS to streamline their … Read more
WinZO is an Indian skill-gaming platform that provides entertainment and fun for users to test their gaming skills. The platform offers over 100 games across six formats, available in 12 languages. Users engage in micro-transactions using digital payment methods like UPI, with the platform seeing over four billion transactions each month. WinZO differentiates itself by … Read more
Tarsus Distribution has partnered with Scale Computing to offer the SC//Platform in South Africa, aiming to provide a competitive alternative to VMware. The SC//Platform promises significant reductions in management costs and total cost of ownership, with Scale Computing even offering to pay for the remainder of a customer’s VMware term if they switch to their … Read more
At IBM’s annual THINK conference, the company unveiled new updates to its watsonx platform, a year after its initial launch. Additionally, IBM released a series of IBM Granite models in open source, including high-performing LLMs that can surpass larger models in various benchmarks. These announcements reflect IBM’s commitment to innovation and advancement in the field … Read more
During the annual IBM Think conference in Armonk, New York, IBM announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make its full portfolio of Watsonx data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform available for use with AWS services. This collaboration aims to enhance the scaling of AI in the enterprise through an open hybrid approach … Read more
At the IBM Think conference, IBM announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make the full range of IBM offerings within the Watsonx data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform available for use with AWS services. This collaboration aims to facilitate the scaling of AI across enterprises through an open hybrid approach with end-to-end … Read more