AMMAN – December 8, 2015 - In cooperation with The Arab International Society for Management Technology (AISMT), Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Information Technology International (TAG-ITI) held a seminar on cloud computing at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Forum.
The seminar aimed at raising awareness about this technology, supporting the various sectors to keep pace with the accelerated technological development and using the new technological means in all sectors, which represents one of AISMT most significant objectives.
The seminar was held under the patronage of HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh with the participation of a number of pioneers in the field of IT, representatives and managers of national and international providers of cloud computing, in presence of representatives of the various public and private sectors.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh stressed on the need to take a variety of steps in order to assist in e-transformation. First of these steps was to establish a permanent coordination commission involving all the stakeholders concerned in e-clouds. The commission will study the significance of this issue to the society, to make suggestions for starting work – provided being under the umbrella of AISMT pursuant to the agreement. In addition, he called for communicating a message using all available means to all decision makers in both public and private sectors calling for e-transformation.
Moreover, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh stated that the European Union has assigned Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) to raise awareness amongst Jordanians on the significance of renewable energy since the Organization has the ability to communicate messages to the media aiming at developing capacity and preparing the different training courses on modern technology, including cloud computing.
TAG-Org launched its private cloud (TAG-Cloud) in 2012. TAG-Cloud enables TAG-Org to transfer all applications, systems and software to the cloud for the purpose of saving energy, costs, flexibility and acceleration in education, business and competitiveness in the new global market; in addition to guaranteeing safety, and the unlimited ability to monitor and expand in the virtual environment.
TAG-Cloud helps deliver the professional and educational services to TAG-Org community, including Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University (TAGI-UNI) and its students and international suppliers of education. In addition, it provides each user in the group, each student at TAGI-UNI and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Colleges with remote access to the files, applications and storage from any computer and at any time.
TAG-ITI launched the specialized consulting services in cloud computing to support the local community in specific and the Arab community in general in the application of the latest solutions of transformation into cloud computing technology. TAG-Cloud will be a future platform of its program adopted in order to transform into a smart group in all internal and external transactions by the end of 2016.
Dr. Salem Al-Aqtash, ICT Advisor to TAG-Org Chairman, illustrated that cloud computing makes it easy for the users to perform their various duties, enabling them to access into their own data
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