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Finesse implements IBM Cloud disaster recovery for Al Masah Capital Management
Finesse announced the commencement of Infrastructure as a Service for Al Masah Capital Management. Al Masah Capital Management is a Dubai based alternative investment management firm and has contracted Finesse to offer them with IBM Cloud solutions.
Finesse will assist them with their business and IT platform transformation programme using IBM Cloud. Finesse has been signed up for their capabilities in offering infra service and cloud provisioning capabilities.
Al Masah Capital Management had their legacy datacentre and respective disaster recovery running with peak utilisation for more than five years. Finesse, with offerings on IBM Cloud, transformed them to new datacentres with high availability and disaster recovery sites using the latest scalable technologies. This covers a revamp of all the corporate datacentre and disaster recovery sites.
Al Masah Capital Management offers private equity, asset management, corporate and real
Finesse ensures end to end implementation and support to Geo & Logic GIS Solutions for the next five years
estate advisory as well as public market research services. It provides fund raising and advisory services primarily in alternative investments in the MENA region to individuals and entities wishing to participate in such markets.
Previously in December, Finesse has been signed up by Geo & Logic GIS Solutions, a Dubai based tracking and fleet management solutions provider to offer cloud solutions on IBM Cloud.
Microsoft Azure skills training and certification being promoted regionally
In its efforts of fueling digital transformation in the region, Microsoft has launched Azure Skills, cloud related trainings and certification offers for IT professionals across UAE. With the aim of increasing adoption for new cloud technologies, the Azure Skills programme will help participants advance their technical acumen on cloud; driving true digital transformation in line with UAE Vision 2021, and contributing to the country’ s innovation, economic competitiveness, and smart initiatives.
Azure training and certification offers are a high-value, simple, and customisable way to increase the technical skills of individuals and enterprise IT teams, and help participants to earn valuable Microsoft Certified Professional MCP status to advance their careers and clearly stand out.
IT professionals signing up for the courses will have access to a broad range of technical resources and trainings at different levels, from free Massively Open Online Courses in a self-paced interactive environment, to full certification offerings. Those opting for a free training will have access to Microsoft’ s online catalogue of new Azure fundamentals and technical trainings, added each month.
Digital certificates of completion for each course will be given.
Samer Abu Ltaif, Regional General Manager, Microsoft Gulf
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