On cloud nine: Saudi Arabia embraces the digital revolution
JEDDAH: Forced to stay at home and unable to travel or be connected to the rest of the world, cloud computing has gone from a technical marvel to almost a way of life for Saudi residents and workers. “In the immediate aftermath of COVID-19, all of us, in some sense, moved to the cloud,” said Dina Abo-Onoq, managing partner, IBM Services, Saudi Arabia. “Using cloud-based video conferencing, cloud-based education platforms, cloud-based document sharing and signing, and more. For companies that had to quickly establish distributed call centers or chatbots, the cloud provided them with a fa...