Maktoum bin Mohammed: Partnerships with international expertise leaders are a key enabler of Dubai’s digital transformation journey – Enterprise – Economic system and Finance

Maktoum bin Mohammed meets with CEO of Equinix
Serving the neighborhood extra successfully and enhancing sustainable improvement are key goals of Dubai’s digital transformation plan, says His Highness

His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the UAE, in the present day met with Charles Meyers, President and CEO of Equinix, one of many world’s main digital infrastructure corporations, at HH The Ruler’s Courtroom in Dubai.

Throughout the assembly, His Highness highlighted Dubai’s keenness to strengthen collaboration with main international expertise corporations. Profitable partnerships with main business gamers are a key enabler of Dubai’s digital transformation journey and its improvement as a worldwide expertise hub, he stated. 

His Highness additional stated that serving the neighborhood extra successfully and enhancing sustainable improvement are key goals of Dubai’s digital transformation plan. The initiative seeks to lift the effectivity of significant sectors and advance Dubai’s strategic goal of changing into one of many world’s high city economies, he added.

Based in Silicon Valley in 1998, Equinix is among the world’s main digital infrastructure corporations. It serves various sectors together with public, monetary, industrial, healthcare, retail, training and transportation by its 198 information centres positioned in 37 international locations, along with 50 further centres which can be underneath improvement. In 2022, the corporate’s revenues reached $7.263 billion, whereas Q1 2023 revenues amounted to $2 billion.

One in every of Equinix’s greatest information facilities, the DX1 Dubai Knowledge Centre, is positioned within the Dubai Manufacturing Metropolis. The ability spans an space of 41,000 sq. toes.

The assembly was attended by His Excellency Abdullah Al Basti, Secretary Basic of The Government Council of Dubai; His Excellency Helal Al Marri, Director Basic of Dubai’s Division of Economic system and Tourism; His Excellency Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Director Basic of Digital Dubai, and His Excellency Malek Al Malek, Director Basic of the Dubai Improvement Authority.

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