KSA Business: Prince Sultan University, VMware to launch Innovation Centre – Gulf Digital News

KSA Business: Prince Sultan University, VMware to launch Innovation Centre – Gulf Digital News

Prince Sultan University (PSU) and VMware will launch an Innovation Centre that will enable students, researchers, and businesses to experience cloud, modern apps, and security solutions, supporting Saudi Arabia’s digitisation agenda.

For this they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The Innovation Centre is equipped with VMware software and resources to give students, researchers, and businesses hands-on experience with transformative digital solutions for app modernisation, cloud, networking, security, and digital workspace.

The MoU was signed under the patronage of Abdullah Alswaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Saudi Arabia.

The Innovation Centre, which is expected to start operating in the first half of the year, will help foster a culture of learning and build real-world information and communications technology (ICT) skills, while providing a valuable resource to research projects underway at PSU by expanding access to VMware’s solutions.

The Innovation Centre will also be used to demonstrate the benefits of VMware’s solutions to local customers and partners, with the aim of helping accelerate digital transformation amongst the local business community.

Dr Ahmed Yamani, president of PSU, said: “The Innovation Centre is intended to spur innovation, research, and learning at the university, and amongst local businesses and partners