Bahrain may be a small country, but it is positioned to become a digital country by 2035, and it’s leaders are looking to the future where its citizens will have unique opportunities with technologies surrounding a cloud-first policy. The country is accomplishing this through a groundbreaking partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. “Our leaders said, ‘We are ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to expand outside of the U.S. On September 4, 2018, it signed a memorandum of understanding with the country of Kuwait to help spur the country’s vision of being a digital country by 2035. The MOU was signed in Washington, D.C., between Kuwait’s Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority and Teresa Carlson, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. recently announced that it’s setting up shop in the Middle East for the first time — in the country of Bahrain, to be specific. In early 2019, AWS will launch in the region with three Availability Zones, which will give their Middle Eastern customers and partners the ability to run workloads and store data with minimal latency. And the ...

As data becomes the new currency for modern-day businesses, many are still seeing challenges in being able to use their data in meaningful, tangible ways. This can hinder a business from moving forward and staying competitive, and it’s crucial to continue supporting efforts to help businesses know how best to handle their data. “Data becomes ...

MicrosoftCorp. turned 43 this year. And while that’s old by technology standards, the company’s age isn’t stopping it from continuing to staunchly advocate for the digital transformation. But from an analyst’s perspective, what steps are Microsoft taking to stay relevant as a multinational giant? Weighing in on Microsoft’s advancements in the digital age is Patrick Moorhead (pictured), founder, president and ...

While the education sector can sometimes be restricted in its adoption of technological innovations, the digital transformation is coming to the Ivy League — and the information technology professionals at Brown University are wrestling with the same kinds of conversations that enterprises are asking. Chris Menard (pictured), lead storage administrator at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has a ...

Is Hadoop dying? Will cloud solutions help mark the end of an era when companies relied on Hadoop for essential information technology and data operations like file systems and storage and server scheduling? Yaron Haviv (pictured), founder and chief technology officer of Iguazio Systems Ltd., believes that Hadoop may be outmaneuvered in the future with other ...

While many try to overcomplicate and monopolize matters of technology in today’s trend towards digital transformation, it’s important for organizations to simplify tech solutions and realize that there is no such thing as a monopoly when it comes to cloud solutions, according to David Richards (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of software company WANdisco PLC. Richards recently discussed his ...

Placing its bets on big data, betting and gaming company William Hill PLC is playing for high stakes in the world of artificial intelligence-boosted IT services. Based in the U.K. and expanding in the U.S. since 2012, William Hill has a wealth of gaming data from bets on sporting events, presidential elections and weather patterns to name a few. ...

While many dream of entrepreneurial fame in the tech world, few realize that what may seem like overnight success is often an accumulation of hard work over many years, not to mention the countless tough decisions for company founders. Alex Solomon (pictured), co-founder and chief technology officer of PagerDuty Inc., shared his story of co-founding PagerDuty in 2009, ...