Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 03 | Page 58

Tata Communications and Emirates Data Clearing House partner to improve settlements
D2L appoints regional resellers for Brightspace learning cloud solution
Businessware offers Acronis backup as a service in UAE
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Tata Communications and Emirates Data Clearing House partner to improve settlements

Tata Communications, a provider of communications and Emirates Data Clearing House, a regional leader in roaming solutions and seamless settlements, announced a bilateral partnership for mutual business cooperation in their data and financial clearing offerings to mobile network operators across the globe.
The partnership will enable Tata Communications to provide a more robust portfolio of solutions as an integrated mobility service provider with its existing range of innovative solutions. Emirates Data Clearing House will in turn expand their geographical avenues significantly towards global markets with an enhanced roaming and mobility management portfolio. The collaboration will allow both companies to enhance value and deliver a superior experience to new and existing customers.
Established in 1994, Emirates Data Clearing House holds credibility of being an Intelligent Roaming and Revenue Management partner. Emirates Data Clearing House helps mobile operators visibly enhance their revenues and subscriber experience through comprehensive roaming solutions such as Data Clearing, Financial Clearing, Revenue Assurance, Value Added and Hub services.
Tata Communications owns and operates the world’ s largest and advanced whollyowned subsea fibre cable network.

D2L appoints regional resellers for Brightspace learning cloud solution

D2L, which has helped transform learning for people all over the world, is now doing the same for Middle East and Africa. After increasing its presence in the region last year with a dedicated office in Dubai, and on-boarding several thousand unique users in the region since then, the global learning technology provider is set to scale up its regional footprint. The creator of the Brightspace Learning Management System has recently added new resellers to meet the market’ s growing needs for smart learning technology.
D2L is currently providing its Brightspace LMS to high-profile academic institutions within the region such as Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia, Ankabut in the UAE and University College of Bahrain, to name a few. The provider is now increasing its resellers in the region to include, International Turnkey Systems and Regional Valley for Technology and Innovation, in addition to knowledge solutions provider Naseej Arabian Advanced Systems.
Available in fourteen different languages including English, Arabic, French, Turkish and Portuguese, the Brightspace LMS is well aligned with the region’ s diverse language requirements. D2L has recently selected Amazon Web Services AWS as its strategic public cloud infrastructure provider.
Businessware offers Acronis backup as a service in UAE
Buzinessware, a Middle East hosting specialist, revealed a strategic new partnership with Acronis, a global data protection provider, which will result in the roll-out of next generation Backup-as-a-Service for small medium enterprises in UAE. Under the new alliance, Buzinessware will now be able to offer hybrid cloud backup and recovery solution from its Middle East datacentres. Resulting in SMEs enjoying a safe, secure and scalable offsite backup for any data or system and a 100 % assurance of recovery from anywhere, anytime.
According to Buzinessware senior executives, enterprise backup has been a key challenge that SMEs have been facing for over a decade now, which includes constant troubleshooting failures, optimising performance, managing media, and meeting backup windows— all resulting in operational overhead that offers no competitive advantage. W
With this in mind, Buzinessware offers BaaS as a key solution to protect all their mission-critical systems; physical, virtual, and cloud with one efficient business backup solution managed by a single, easy-to-use console hosted for the first time in Middle east datacentres. The company is currently offering its cloud backup and recovery service starting from as low as AED 29 per month and also with a free 30-day trial period for its SME customers.
The company has pointed out that lost files and system failures can paralyse a project, which is why having a contingency plan is both crucial and essential. Buzinessware’ s hybrid cloud backup and recovery solutions safeguards any business.
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