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Unlocking secondary storage’s data with cloud technology
Cloud technologies are enabling many new and fascinating ways to store, use and even reuse secondary data. In the past, the data was “locked” onto tape or server arrays, making it difficult to catalog, find and access. With the advent of cloud, that is no longer the case; cloud-based secondary storage is more agile, opening ...
Tips to minimize multicloud complexities from a Forrester analyst
While the very definition of “multicloud” can mean many different things, what it usually boils down to is where workloads should reside and the parameters used to determine those locations. Forrester Research Inc. has compiled extensive business data from its clients and research initiatives that shines light on the inherent complexities of moving to multicloud ...
Cybersecurity ideas for Bahrain’s expanding cloud ecosystem
As an advanced technology partner of Amazon Web Services Inc., Telos Corp. is in the business of making sure that workloads in the cloud are secure and compliant. While there were initial concerns regarding cloud security, workloads today that reside in the cloud are now regarded as less likely to be at risk than workloads on-premises. ...
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As Bahrain grows fintech businesses, more women than ever are participating
The island kingdom of Bahrain is noted among its Middle Eastern neighbors are being one of the most forward-thinking and liberal countries, especially when it comes to the societal role of women. The first Bahraini schools for women opened in 1928, and the Royal University for Women was founded in 2005, becoming the first private, purpose-built, ...
Bahrain cultivates fertile tech environment to refine the ‘new oil’ of data
As a tiny island monarchy, Bahrain was the first Middle Eastern nation to strike oil, and yet compared to its neighbors, its oil reserves are small. However, if Bahrain is not rich in oil, it is rich in its people. Most of the population is bilingual; many are trilingual. Historically, it’s been a place where ...
How Bahrain implements ‘cloud-first’ culture, starting with AWS training
As one of the smaller and less well-known countries in the Middle East, the island nation of Bahrain is refreshingly innovative when it comes to technology. Bahrain has been making remarkable investments in not only remaking itself into a tech-friendly nation, but also paying for its citizens to be trained and certified in Amazon Web Services, laying the groundwork ...
Cloud-native solutions strive to keep pace with the speed of change
The pace of change in cloud computing technology can be blindingly fast. A company can decide to, for example, move certain workloads to the cloud using the newest technology — only to find that during the migration the tech has gone from “best and latest” to “somewhat obsolete.” Catching trends in cloud tech can be frustrating and ...
AWS’ public sector push leads to investment in Bahrain’s citizens
With a decidedly global aim for public cloud domination, Amazon Web Services Inc. has been flexing its expansion muscles to all corners of the world, including the Middle East region. Bahrain, a tiny island kingdom, tapped AWS earlier this year to provide a cloud landing for its government agencies. From there, AWS is looking for business opportunities to ...
Hyperconverged operations: moving secondary storage to the cloud, seamlessly
Secondary storage is one of those “necessary evils” that any company with data is always looking for ways to solve. Whether it’s digital information hanging out on a tape drive in a closet, or multiple versions of an email wending its way through the system, that data has to be stored somewhere for backup and ...
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Why tech VCs invest in people, not ideas
Venture capitalists are regarded in Silicon Valley as the heroes of many of technology’s startup successes, bringing in money and expertise when entrepreneurs needed to develop original ideas or expand into larger markets. But it still comes down most of all to the entrepreneurs more than their ideas. “What I’m really looking for is in investing ...