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BUILDING THE FUTURE MORO HUB EMBRACES A SUSTAINABLE MULTI-CLOUD STRATEGY AND HELP POWER THE UAE’S SMART GOVERNMENT AND SMART CITY AMBITIONS.
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s part of 10X, DEWA mobilised its innovation unit to create a new entity called Digital DEWA, which uses innovation in artificial intelligence and digital services to meet the current and future requirements brought about by the 4th industrial revolution. This entity required an innovative, agile data hub, and thus Moro Hub was established in 2018. Forming the backbone of Digital DEWA, Moro Hub was established to fulfil the need for an innovative and agile data centre and to drive digital transformation throughout the UAE and meet the country’s ambitious sustainability goals by helping to reduce IT’s carbon footprint. Moro Hub proudly contributes to the UAE’s future vision. It works alongside other strategic initiatives, including the 16
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Dubai Plan 2021, UAE Centennial 2071, and Dubai 10X, an attempt to position the city as 10 years ahead of the rest of the world. For Moro Hub to deliver its mission, it needed to become an end-to-end service provider, hosting, and delivering sustainable cloud-based services to organisations across the UAE. As well as offering a sustainable cloud-hosting solution, it also wanted to provide cybersecurity services along with managed and professional services. Moro Hub is upgrading the country’s IT infrastructure, and it launched the first Green Data Centre that was the region’s first tier-III, solar-powered data centre in Dubai in October 2020. In May 2021, due to strong demand, Moro Hub announced plans to build a second data centre in Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar
Park. This will be the largest, 100 percent solar-powered, tier-III data centre in the Middle East and Africa, with a capacity of more than 100 megawatts (MW). While Moro Hub’s data centres had the core infrastructure in place, it still needed to develop a modern service catalog. This would allow it to automate manual processes and enable organisations across the UAE to transform their operations. To help move organisations to the cloud, it also needed access to the right expertise to build cloud offerings and services to launch on its cloud platform. Embracing cloud for a service-oriented approach Moro Hub selected VMware to help build a multi-cloud platform to enable its customers, including government
