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Grand View Research. Meanwhile, global of Microsoft UAE Microsoft, its partners Bank, Mashreq Bank, DP World, Dubai
spending on public cloud services is and customers are expected to add more International Airport and Majid Al Futtaim
expected to rise by more than 20 per cent than 97,000 jobs to the UAE economy, Retail. More than two thirds of the jobs
annually to $495bn this year — about $84bn either through direct employment or created by Microsoft's cloud business in the
more than what was spent in 2020 — and through the indirect generation of jobs UAE will directly deal with the technology
hit $600bn in 2023, according to research in other organizations, the study said. itself, while the rest will be at the end-user
firm Gartner. Aside from Microsoft, other This will include an estimated 29,000 IT level, which highlights the need to boost
global technology companies such as jobs, “highlighting the ongoing need for the skills of users, Mr. Yazbeck said. “The
Amazon and Oracle have also set up collaboration between public and private challenge is the availability of skills. We are
data centers in the UAE to support the entities on skilling programmes to ensure focusing, with the government, on skilling
country's technological push. The cloud that qualified professionals are on hand to the workforce. You need more skills at
has been a critical factor in allowing many assume these roles”, it said. Microsoft's a high pace,” he said. “In specific highly
sectors — from education to payments and cloud customers and partners in the UAE regulated industries, we are looking if there
financial services to retail — to continue to include the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority, is a way to partner with them so they can
operate. Naim Yazbeck, general manager the Ministry of Education, First Abu Dhabi leverage the advantages of the cloud.”

Nokia Appoints Shaun McCarthy as President of

North America Sales

Nokia announced that Shaun McCarthy has
joined the company as President of North
America Sales. Shaun will be responsi-
ble for leading all aspects of sales across
the US and Canada, accelerating revenue
growth, and helping customers to adopt
transformative networking technologies
that enable the next phase of digitization.
Shaun will report directly to Chief Custom-
er Experience Officer Ricky Corker. Shaun
brings more than 20 years of experience
leading sales teams and driving go-to-mar-
ket strategies in the telecom, hyperscale,
and technology industries. He joins Nokia
from Cisco where he was vice president
of worldwide sales for the Mass-Scale am delighted to welcome Shaun to lead enable innovative, high speed, reliable, and
Infrastructure Group. At Cisco, he was in- the North America sales team. Shaun has affordable broadband access across rural
strumental in building a world-class sales a proven track record of leading success- and urban communities.” Nokia is supply-
team, leading multiple strategic M&A ac- ful teams, building long-term relationships ing 5G technologies across its portfolio to
tivities, and incubating new solutions with with customers, and helping customers the major service providers and leading op-
lighthouse customers. He has also served in their digital transformation journeys. erators, as well as hyperscalers, enterpris-
in several leadership roles at a number of His extensive experience in modernizing es, and government organizations in the
Silicon Valley companies, including Palo sales organizations will ensure that we US. Nokia provides the critical networks the
Alto Networks, Brocade, and Vyatta. As are engaging customers in new and inter- US counts on with decades of experience
President of North America Sales, Shaun’s esting ways.” Shaun McCarthy, President and investment in US infrastructure. The
mission will be to help Nokia’s customers of North America Sales at Nokia, said: “It’s company has an unrivalled track record of
build innovative new revenue generating an incredibly exciting time to join Nokia. innovation in the US, including Nokia Bell
services, grow existing revenue streams, Nokia’s end-to-end networking portfolio is Labs, which pioneered many of the funda-
and reduce their costs. Shaun’s sales team firing on all cylinders, the opportunities to mental technologies that are being used to
will lead customers through major archi- help customers modernize their operations develop 5G and fiber broadband standards.
tectural evolutions, including the transition and accelerate growth are plentiful, and the Today, more than 90 percent of the US
to 5G, broadband modernization, and the time to close the digital divide is now. In population is connected by Nokia network
deployment of private wireless solutions North America, we need to create ubiqui- solutions while seven out of 10 fiber homes
across industries. Ricky Corker, Chief Cus- tous access to today’s digital world, and no in the US are connected using Nokia fixed
tomer Experience Officer of Nokia, said: “I company is better positioned than Nokia to network equipment.

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