ALKESH SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Emirates’ Information and Technology industry is at an all-time high, courtesy the UAE government’s progressive policies and presence of world-class IT growth catalysts in the country. It expects a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of nearly 3.6 percent over the period of2015-2019, suggests a Business Monitor International (BMI) Research report. According to the survey, the …

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business As the region gears up for the 21st edition of Gulfood, Egypt’s food and beverage industry is all set to showcase and promote its halal products. Around 167 Egyptian companies are expected to participatein the event, which is scheduled from February 21-25, at Dubai World Trade Centre. “With more than 85,000 food and beverage, wholesale, …

ALKESH SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS Dubai-based eHostingDataFort (eHDF) has joined hands with IT-giant Cisco, an initiative that would ensure better services to its clients through Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI). ACI would unify all the component of IT infrastructure — networking, storage, compute, network services, applications, security —into a single, dynamic entityand facilitate improved operational efficiency, productivity, scalability and improved security. This …