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W ith targeted delivery in the first half of 2025 , ServiceNow ’ s UAE Cloud will offer a new path to the Now Platform and industry-leading Now Assist generative AI capabilities .

ServiceNow , the AI platform for business transformation , announced plans for a ServiceNow UAE Cloud , hosted on Microsoft Azure . The company confirmed that the active build of the cloud region is underway , with a targeted delivery window in the first half of 2025 .

The cloud offering is in line with ServiceNow ’ s commitment to meeting the business transformation requirements of all business entities in the UAE , both public and private sector . ServiceNow will host its UAE cloud on Azure as part of the company ’ s ongoing expansion of its global strategic alliance with Microsoft , which began in 2019 . “ Upon launch of the UAE Cloud , our customers will be able to transform their operations and empower their employees like never before ,” said Mark Ackerman , Area Vice President , Middle East and Africa at ServiceNow .

With ServiceNow ’ s single , trusted AI and data platform , customers can realize the full potential of AI across their business , fast . With generative AI embedded directly into the Now Platform , customers get out-of-thebox intelligence to support their business transformation . Today ’ s announcement also follows the March availability of the Now Platform in Arabic , another step in ServiceNow ’ s ongoing investment in the UAE and Middle Eastern region .

ServiceNow and Microsoft most recently expanded their partnership by combining two of the industry-leading GenAI capabilities , ServiceNow Now Assist and Microsoft Copilot into one seamless enterprise experience to enhance customer choice and flexibility . Together , ServiceNow and Microsoft will help enterprise and government customers accelerate their digital transformation , creating great experiences and unlocking productivity .

Scality deploys RING distributed storage at genomics laboratory , SeqOIA Médecine Génomique

Scality , a global provider in cyber-resilient storage for the AI era , announced a largescale deployment of its RING distributed file and object storage solution to optimise and accelerate the data lifecycle for highthroughput genomics sequencing laboratory SeqOIA Médecine Génomique . This is the most recent in a series of deployments where RING is leveraged as a foundational analytics and AI data lake repository for organisations in healthcare , financial services and travel services across the globe .

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Alban Lermine , IS and Bioinformatics Director , SeqOIA

Plan , SeqOIA is one of two national laboratories integrating whole genome sequencing into the French healthcare system to benefit patients with rare diseases and cancer .

SeqOIA adopted Scality RING to aggregate petabyte-scale genetics data used to better characterise pathologies as well as guide genetic counselling and patient treatment . RING grants SeqOIA biologists efficient access from thousands of compute nodes to nearly 10 petabytes of data throughout its lifecycle , spanning from lab data to processed data , at accelerated speeds and a cost 3 – 5 times lower than that of all-flash file storage .

“ RING is the repository for 90 % of our genomics data pipeline , and we see a need for continued growth on it for years to come ,” said Alban Lermine , IS and Bioinformatics Director of SeqOIA . •

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