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HUAWEI PARTNERS WITH MORO HUB TO LAUNCH OPEN CLOUD
is Excellency Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), witnessed the signing of a collaboration agreement between Moro Hub (Data Hub Integrated Solutions), a whollyowned subsidiary of DEWA, and Huawei, a multinational technology company, to launch the multi-tenant Huawei Cloud Stack hosted in the UAE at Moro’s Green Data Centre, the first of its kind in the Middle East.
The newest developer-friendly, secure, and resilient Cloud Platform provides a range of futuristic managed cloud services with multi-availability zones while contributing to the sustainability objectives of governments and Enterprises. The agreement was signed by Eng. Marwan Bin Haidar, Vice Chairman of Moro Hub, and Jiawei Liu, CEO of Huawei UAE. The latest announcement is in sync with Moro Hub’s launch of Green Data Centre to invest its efforts in offering the latest
technologies and services to its clients yet be a responsible corporate citizen to the environment and its community. The new cloud offering reflects the share vision of both Moro Hub and Huawei to reduce carbon emissions and enhance environmental sustainability. HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer said, “At Moro Hub, we are committed to the vision and directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make the UAE the world’s leading nation, and the Dubai 10X initiative, which mandates the Government of Dubai to Position Dubai 10 years ahead of all other cities. Moro Hub’s vision is to be the digital transformation hub of choice. Therefore, its latest Cloud Platform with Huawei provides a full suite of modern, highly scalable and flexible infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) system capable of addressing the needs of prospective clients. CIOs are now seeking to extend their application capabilities by leveraging cloud-native and developer-friendly features with such unique platforms.”
VMWARE ANNOUNCES NEW INNOVATIONS TO DELIVER INTRINSIC SECURITY
adoption to build resilient, future ready digital infrastructure. “Amid global disruption, the key to survival for many companies has meant an accelerated shift to the cloud and ultimately, bolting on security products in their data centres,” said Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer, Customer Operations, VMware. “But legacy security systems are no longer sufficient for organisations that are using the cloud as part of their computing infrastructure. It’s time to rethink security for the cloud, organisations need protection at the workload level, not just at the endpoint. The future of cloud must be met with a better way to secure data and applications.” As organisations continue their journey towards cloud transformation and application modernisation, they require modern security solutions that are both powerful and easy to
operationalise. Unveiled at VMworld 2020, VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload, delivers advanced protection purpose-built for better securing modern workloads to reduce the attack surface and strengthen security posture. This innovative solution combines prioritised vulnerability reporting and foundational workload hardening with industry-leading prevention, detection and response capabilities to protect workloads running in virtualised, private and hybrid cloud environments. The solution combines Carbon Black’s security expertise with VMware’s deep knowledge of data centres to build security into workloads. VMware customers can experience the advanced new solution with a six-month unlimited free trial of VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload Essentials, available for all current vSphere 6.5 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 customers.
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VMware has unveiled new innovations to deliver intrinsic security to the world’s digital infrastructure. The solutions are designed to advance security for the public and private clouds, security operations and distributed workforces as organisations accelerate cloud 6
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