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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

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Bahrain EDB As cloud adoption grows, its impact on economies and businesses is starting to show that digital transformation can make good on the utopian promises of innovation and improved public services. Those who demand to see hard facts that prove the power of cloud should examine Bahrain. So why did AWS select Bahrain?

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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

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It also emphasizes Involta’s focus on the three pillars of its ESG strategy: environmental sustainability, employee well-being, and strong governance practices. Increasingly, we are also finding that these same customers are working towards sustainability goals of their own.” It’s important to be in tune with the communities we serve.

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Google Sustainability Efforts in the Cloud Now Claim to be “Carbon Intelligent”

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Google Sustainability is an effort that ranges across their business, from the Global Fishing Watch to environmental consciousness in the supply chain. Given that cloud computing has been a major draw of global energy in recent years, the amount of computing done in data centers more than quintupled between 2010 and 2018.

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German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor

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The Augsburg, Germany-based company has raised $20 million, funding that it plans to use to continue building out its business, as well as its technology, both in terms of the hardware and the cloud-based software platform, German Bionic IO, that works with the exoskeletons to optimize them and help them “learn” to work better.

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Arbisoft co-founder Yasser Bashir on building trust with early-stage startups

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Co-founded in 2007 by Yasser Bashir, Arbisoft falls on the larger end of the spectrum of software development partners that our readers have recommended in our ongoing survey. What started with three people in 2007 is now one of the most successful software companies in our region. Arbisoft is a manifestation of many of those ideas.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

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Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. AirConsole — a cloud-gaming platform where you don’t need a console and can play with all your friends and family.

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What is COBIT? A framework for alignment and governance

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Some examples of these focus areas include small and medium enterprises, cybersecurity, digital transformation and cloud computing. Later, in the 2000s, the ISACA developed version 3, which brought in the IT management and information governance techniques found in the framework today.