Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA and the digital arm of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) appoints NetApp, a cloud-led, data-centric software company, as its platform to power the hub’s application modernization platform offering for businesses in the UAE.

Moro Hub hosts the region’s first-tier III certified solar-powered Green Data Centre that focuses on sustainable practices to deliver customer-centric innovation.

“A key advantage is that NetApp’s unified software-defined platform supports all types of data across the Data Centre and the cloud, whether it’s Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), or Simple Storage Service (S3), which will help meet customers’ existing requirements while keeping the budgets affordable,” said Eng. Marwan Bin Haidar, Vice Chairman and Group CEO of Digital DEWA.

Moro Hub makes use of container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, to provide the scalability and flexibility required to modernize the applications and services. Through this collaboration, Moro Hub aims to leverage the underlying technology and enhance the Kubernetes-native integration.

“We are incredibly excited to be a key enabler in supporting Moro Hub’s efforts to provide businesses with sustainable data management offerings,” said Fadi Kanafani, Managing Director – Middle East at NetApp.

With NetApp’s vast experience in NAS and NFS protocols, along with the solution’s solid integration in containers, NetApp and Moro Hub aim to simplify, integrate and unify the use of the container platform as a service.