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elcome to the
latest edition of
Intelligent Data
Centres. Our cover
story this month
features Emirates
Steel, a steel producer headquartered in
Abu Dhabi, which deployed Commvault
HyperScale and Commvault Complete
Backup and Recovery solutions to
support its digitalisation ambitions and
safeguard its manufacturing operations.
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Mohammed Azam, IT Infrastructure
Head at Emirates Steel, tells us how
the Commvault solutions are helping
to future-proof the organisation and
providing a new milestone for effective
data storage.
In our first feature this month, we find
out how an energy storage project which
took place at the Johan Cruyff Arena
in Amsterdam has implications for the
future of data centres, while our second
feature explores the launch of Microsoft’s
two new cloud data centre regions in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE).
It is hoped that the new cloud data
centre regions will accelerate Digital
Transformation to enable job creation,
entrepreneurship and economic growth
across the Middle East.
The IT infrastructure industry is at a
crossroads in terms of product sales to
cloud vs. traditional IT environments,
according to the International Data
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about life inside and outside the office.
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of all the latest news in the data
centre sector, while our ‘intelligent’
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operations, infrastructure, power and
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