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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

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AI and machine learning are poised to drive innovation across multiple sectors, particularly government, healthcare, and finance. Governments will prioritize investments in technology to enhance public sector services, focusing on improving citizen engagement, e-governance, and digital education.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

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A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

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Cyber attacks and data breaches can wreak havoc on a business’ IT systems, resulting in massive costs to fix the damage and a long-lasting impact on customers that could hamper a company’s growth for years to come.

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

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As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on.

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New regulation intensifies focus on IT risk management and operational resilience

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With integrated capabilities like service management, operations management and monitoring, mainframe management, and business process automation tools, BMC Helix empowers financial institutions to ensure compliance with DORA’s requirements for governance, visibility, risk management, business continuity, and incident management.

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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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AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain. In Bahrain, the figure is over 40%.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership. Role growth: 20% of businesses have added cloud systems engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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