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CNME November 2016
What’s Inside
Security Operations Centres to face greater challenges in the coming year
0 23447SOCs to face greater challenges from cybercriminals targeting governments and media.
Trump-Musk feud leads to reevaluation of SpaceX contracts
0 9The review shows the administration is following through on a threat by Trump during his spat with Musk to possibly terminate business and subsidies for Musk ventures.
Toshiba outlines how best to revitalise your hard drive for a long lifespan
0 22Rainer W. Kaese, Senior Manager Business Development Storage Products Toshiba Electronics Europe, outlines optimal operating conditions for hard drives and the best practices to help avoid device failure.
Dataiku launches new FSI Blueprint designed to accelerate Agentic AI in financial services
0 48Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform™ has announced a new FSI Blueprint for deploying agentic AI systems in financial services. This …
Amazon to invest billions in Australian data centre ecosystem
0 84Companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google have been ramping up data centre investments to secure market share and meet AI workload requirements.
Cyberattack hits Microsoft Accounts of Washington Post journalists
0 74The reporters whose emails were targeted included members of the national security and economic policy teams.
Taiwan tightens export control on Huawei
0 64Taiwan has also repeatedly vowed to crack down on what it says are efforts by Chinese companies, including SMIC, to steal technology and entice chip talent away from the island.
MWC25 Doha focuses on advancing next-gen digital societies
0 91MWC25 Doha will bring together industry leaders, policymakers and innovators from around the world, with a focus on advancing the next generation of digital societies in the Middle East and globally.
Meta makes strategic investment in Scale AI
0 77Meta will take a 49% stake for $14.3 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Will you love your AI twin?
0 274Imagine discovering that somewhere in the expanded universe, a version of you solves problems faster, thinks clearer, and never needs …
Opinion: TeKnowledge CTO on the Enterprise AI Execution Gap
0 438Mahmood Lockhat, Chief Technology Officer at TeKnowledge, discusses the execution gap faced by many organisations when it comes to AI and how their new partnership with Kore.ai aims to address this in this exclusive op-ed.
AMD takes steps to ‘Advance AI’
0 172AMD said that many aspects of the Helios servers - such as the networking standards - would be made openly available and shared with competitors such as Intel
US puts limits on Huawei’s AI manufacturing
0 164US mandates that China's Huawei can't exceed production of 200,000 AI chips in 2025.
Google suffers brief global service outage
0 158The outage began around 1:50 p.m. ET on 12/6/2025 and there were 14,729 reports of Google Cloud being down in the U.S.
Hoko Agency acquires Everdome for creative AI venture
0 135UAE-based Hoko Agency Acquires Everdome to Strengthen HumAIn Assets – A New Creative AI Venture.
NTT DATA launches AI powered software defined infrastructure services for Cisco
0 220Reimagined Software Defined Infrastructure services enhance optimisation, reduce costs and accelerate transformation in the era of AI Dubai — NTT …
Strategy One delivers personalized AI experiences in the UAE
0 165Atul Kaul, EVP International at Strategy One, discusses the potential for their AI agents to inform data-driven decision-making in this exclusive Q&A.
How AI is Revolutionising Warehousing Intralogistics
0 166Alexander Honigmann, Director, Transportation and Logistics, EMEA, Zebra Technologies, outlines the improvements that artificial intelligence has brought to modern warehouses by reworking the scale of data analytics.
Amazon enters nuclear energy partnership to power data centres
0 155Both companies will also explore building new Small Modular Reactors within Talen's Pennsylvania footprint and pursue expanding the nuclear plant's energy output.
Google appoints new Chief AI Architect
0 224Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead AI-powered product development as chief architect.
Oracle anticipates strong demand for its cloud offerings
0 176For fiscal year 2026, Oracle expects total revenue to be at least $67 billion, Safra Catz CEO said on a post-earnings call.
Nvidia aims to build industrial AI platform in Germany
0 150The technology aims to help carmakers such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz with processes from simulating product design to managing logistics.
Vertiv appoints Mike Giresi as new Global CIO in bid to reinforce their ambitious AI strategy
0 186Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, has announced that Mike Giresi will join the company on June 30, …
Japanese giant FUJIFILM opens new offices at Expo City in bid to expand its regional footprint
0 163FUJIFILM Middle East and Africa has announced the inauguration of its new offices at Expo City Dubai, – an innovation-driven, …
Khazna announces major collaboration with NVIDIA to build AI factories across the Middle East and Africa
0 218Khazna Data Centers have announced a strategic collaboration with global AI leader NVIDIA, that is designed to accelerate AI infrastructure …
Salesforce blocks AI rivals using data from Slack app
0 255Slack, a Salesforce workplace messaging app, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages reported online publication, …
TeKnowledge announces global partnership with Kore.ai in bid to close the enterprise AI execution gap
0 199Kore.ai, a global leader in enterprise AI technology, has announced a strategic partnership with TeKnowledge, a global provider of expert …
Threads to test direct messaging feature
0 217Threads and Instagram have long been intertwined as part of Meta's plans to leverage the image and video sharing platform's massive user base to better compete with rivals.
“IBM is charting the next frontier in quantum computing, one that will solve real-world challenges.” – Arvind Krishna, IBM CEO
0 228IBM has outlined its plans to build the world’s first large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer, which will ultimately pave the way …
GameStop revenue declines as online gaming rises
0 257Despite expanding its ecommerce platform to include digital downloads and online merchandise, GameStop is yet to fully capitalise on the shift.
