NEWS
Acronis enters official AI
partnership with AS Roma
Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, has announced
the official Artificial Intelligence partnership with
Associazione Sportiva Roma, an Italian professional football club.
Under the agreement, Acronis will be providing AI and Machine
Learning (ML) solutions to process football data to optimise
game and business operations and cyber protection solutions for
mission-critical workloads.
A.S. Roma’s Chief Operating Officer, Francesco Calvo, shared
his thoughts on the importance of the partnership: “The sport of
football is constantly evolving, and we have entered an age where
we are more dependent than ever before on data to make gamewinning
calls. However, the more important data is, the more at risk
it becomes. This is why we are partnering up with Acronis to not only
help us analyse and improve the quality of the data we collect, but
also to protect it. We are excited to be #CyberFit with Acronis.”
AI/ML technology is a major factor of the partnership. Not only is
it being applied in data analysis, but it is also a core part of many of
the solutions that AS Roma will be using to protect its systems. One
such solution is Acronis Cyber Protect, an AI-powered integration
of data protection and cybersecurity. Everything an organisation
needs to protect itself from cyberthreats and data loss, including
backup and recovery, anti-malware and security management can be
managed from a single console.
StarLink and Cloudera enter
into distribution agreement
StarLink, a true Value Added Distributor (VAD) in the Middle
East, Turkey and Africa (META) region, has announced
signing up with Cloudera for distribution in the Middle East and
Egypt. The two companies will collaborate to expand Cloudera’s
global footprint into the rest of the ME region beyond UAE and
KSA, which holds huge potential for the enterprise data cloud.
Data analytics has evolved over the last decade and
organisations that successfully generate business value from
their data are known to outperform their peers. Cloudera
Data Platform (CDP) helps manage data, interpret analytics
and put those insights into action, empowering organisations
to transform complex data, anywhere it resides, into clear
and actionable insights. Cloudera Data Platform creates and
maintains a safe and secure data store for on-premises, hybrid
and multi-cloud architectures, including private and public
clouds. CDP is a new approach to enterprise data that delivers a
full range of analytic capabilities, from the edge to AI.
“Cloudera, a enterprise data cloud company, is all about
data intelligence, AI, IOT, data analysis and forensics etc., which
is trending at this point in time. The most exciting aspect of
this alliance is that Cloudera perfectly complements StarLink’s
portfolio as it expands the use case with all our technology
partners. Thus, empowering our customers to do more with
their data in-hand and achieve actionable business insights,
making them stay ahead of the curve,” said Nidal Othman, Co-
Founder and Managing Director, StarLink.
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