Intelligent Data Centres Issue 09 | Page 6

NEWS Corent Technology and eHosting DataFort announce partnership on cloud migration services orent Technology, a leader in cloud migration and modernisation technologies, and eHosting Datafort (eHDF), one of the leading hosting providers of cloud infrastructure, managed hosting and security services in the Gulf region, have announced the signing of a co-operation agreement. Corent platform SurPaaS MaaS is a fully integrated platform that allows system integrators and managed service providers to rapidly analyse, plan, optimise and migrate their customers’ enterprise applications into the target cloud. The target estate can be Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Softlayer, Oracle CI or even a hosted data centre, such as eHDF. C The power of the platform lies in the fact that it can automatically analyse, ‘cloudify’, ‘paasify’ and, if desired, ‘saasify’ practically any software application without programming. This enables organisations to manage and execute their migration journey to the cloud in a cost effective, accelerated and optimised way, in line with their own desired business roadmap. “We are excited to start this partnership with eHDF as it enables both eHDF and its customers to capitalise on their cloud ambition by guiding and migrating customer IT assets to the cloud or hybrid cloud environments,” said Feyzi Fatehi , CEO Corent Technology. “Adoption of cloud is increasing rapidly in the Gulf region as enterprises realise the business benefits of better agility and a reduced data centre footprint.” Plan to launch Kuwait as regional data centre revealed alem Al-Uzania, Board Chairman of Kuwait’s Public Authority for Communication and Information Technology, has spoken in favour of transforming Kuwait into a data centre region. S Al-Uzania, in a statement to the Kuwait News Agency, has confirmed that the authority as part of its strategy for the future is seeking to make Kuwait a regional data centre in line with the country’s Vision 2035 blueprint. He made the comments on the sidelines of the Huawei Connect 2019 Tech4All Summit which had a theme of ‘How Inclusive Innovation Can Empower the World’. 6 Issue 09 The Kuwaiti Authority will soon sign a deal with the Iraqi Ministry of Communications to establish the Regional Communication Passageway that will connect Iraq with Kuwait and the two countries with Europe. The project will facilitate data flow from the East to the West, he added. He also revealed that the authority is also planning to establish a national data and information centre. During the Huawei event Al-Uzania discussed the regional corridor for communications to be in tandem with China’s Silk Road enterprise. The minister also said that Chinese officials had praised Kuwait’s launch of 5G digital services. www.intelligentdatacentres.com