A new report from McKinsey Digital, which looks at cloud cost-optimisation levers and value-oriented business use cases, foresees more than $1 trillion in run-rate EBITDA up for grabs across Fortune 500 companies in 2030, a number that will grow as cloud facilitates the adoption of emergent technologies such as augmented reality and blockchain.

The Arabian Gulf’s leading maritime repair and fabrication facility signed a contract with Infor, the New York-headquartered multi-national enterprise software firm, to implement a new state-of-the-art facility-wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

IBM and Joyalukkas, a leading jewellery retailer, plan to design, develop and deploy a new cloud native e-commerce platform across 11 countries including India, UAE, USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.

In a cloud-first world, the nexus of activity is no longer in your data center; it’s at the network edge. The hub and spoke way of networking cannot keep up with the soaring demand for direct-to-cloud access at the edge.

Global packaging firm Amcor, has further consolidated its corporate applications in a hybrid cloud and remodelled its enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools. The hybrid cloud integrates its global data centres and network infrastructure utilising Orange Business Services’ solutions and expertise to make its overall business more responsive.

The first rule of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is that communications will fail. One challenge is rising volumes of data place increasing loads on both the main server and the communications networks connected to it.

In their quest for digital transformation, manufacturers and industrial firms will spend $19.8 billion to transform and support their IIoT data analytics value chains by 2026, up from $4.92 billion in 2020.