NEWS
NeuroMem Technologies expands
into Mauritius
Intelligence Council comprising of the public,
private sector and international experts
which aims to foster the development of a
new growth pole revolving around Artificial
Intelligence, Blockchain technologies and
Fintech. Neuromem is setting up a full
programme of workshops and seminars
for secondary level education through to
workplace skills to enable to support the
country’s plans.
From left: Dr Kaviraj Sharma SUKON, Director
General, Prof Pierre Brunswick and Subhashini
Gopee, Registrar (right) from Open University
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euroMem Technologies, a General
Vision company, has expanded and
established a presence in Mauritius to
support the ecosystem leveraging the
growing importance of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) in the country. The announcement was
made by CEO, Professor Pierre Brunswick,
during a recent trip to Mauritius where,
with the support of Economic Development
Board (EDB), he met with key senior advisors
from the various ministries and the business
community in the country.
The move comes in support of the vision
outlined by the Prime Minister of Mauritius,
Pravind Jugnauth in his budget speech for
2018/2019 where he said the government
intends to set up a Mauritius Artificial
Mauritius’ EDB organised a three-day
programme constituting of meetings
with senior advisors from the PM’s office,
Ministry of Technology, Communication and
Innovation, Ministry of Education, Public
Universities in Mauritius, the Mauritius
Research Council and the Human Resource
Development Board. During the event,
Prof Brunswick also hosted a 90-minute
open workshop within the Mauritius
Open University discussing emerging
neuromorphic technology in AI.
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Z Services and McAfee to transform
cloud-based security offering
Z
Services, an innovative cloud-based
cybersecurity solutions provider in the
MENA region and McAfee, the device-to-
cloud cybersecurity company, will bring
the first in-country cloud security solution
to organisations across the Middle East
and North Africa. The solution, powered by
McAfee’s MVISION Cloud, will be available
through Z Services’ in-country multi-tenant
cloud security infrastructure.
With the addition of this solution, Z Services
will extend its cloud-based customer
offering and enhance its consistent data
protection and threat prevention capabilities
across SaaS, IaaS and PaaS platforms such
as Office 365, Box, Dropbox, AWS and
Microsoft Azure. The in-country solution also
enables customers to remain compliant with
regulations around data storage.
Z Services President Nidal Taha said:
“Operating within an environment of constant
security threats, organisations in the MENA
region need a solution that assures security
across multiple cloud applications and protects
data. Cloud Security provides organisations
with better visibility of Shadow IT cloud
services, monitoring of cloud application
usage, prevention of cloud data leakage and
protection against diverse threats.
“The addition of the McAfee’s MVISION
Cloud to our cloud-based offering
demonstrates our commitment to
innovate with customer needs in mind
and offer newer layers of security that
regional businesses may not even have
considered yet.”
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