Google will pay $20,000 to the first researcher who successfully exploits its Chrome browser at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest. …
SABIC deploys OpenText for 37,000 users
OpenText has entered into a global agreement with SABIC, one of the world’s top six petrochemical companies, in which SABIC …
Organisations drag their heels on network automation
Nearly half of IT managers are being hit by network problems every month thanks to human error. That’s according to …
du selects Ericsson to augment IT environment
du has extended its long standing business relationship with Ericsson into the IT space. As part of the new five …
EMC’s Greenplum offers ‘data’ at no charge
EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining …
Amazon to offer Oracle DB in the cloud
Oracle’s database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services’ Relational Database Service, the companies …
Lenovo breaks ground on new operations centre
Chinese PC maker Lenovo has broken ground on a new operations centre in southwestern China that will produce computers, as …
The cost of security compliance – $3.5m: survey
The cost of achieving regulatory security compliance is on average $3.5 million each year, according to a survey of 160 …
EMC appoints GM for KSA
EMC has appointed Mohamed Talaat as GM of the company’s Saudi operations. Based in Riyadh, Talaat will be responsible for …
Computers need radical redesign: research
To use multicore processors effectively the IT industry needs to radically rethink the basic computer architecture it has used over …
Microsoft Windows revenues plunge 30%
Revenues from Windows plummeted 30% last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said yesterday. But in …
Bad business process management will topple firms: Gartner
Easily identifiable business process management defects “will topple” ten global 2000 companies by 2014, according to analyst house Gartner. Gartner …
New Intel technology to reduce data centre cabling
The days of data centres containing large bunches of cabling could be numbered according to Intel. The company is set …
EU to lay down cloud guidelines
The European Union is set to introduce a set of guidelines for cloud computing covering such areas as data protection, …