Cutting through the confusion

Cloud and Big Data are two topics that have been shrouded in confusion over the past 12 months. Quite apart from the never-ending hyperbole surrounding the two mega-trends, their reputations have taken something of a battering over the past year.

Positive grounds

Reseller ME chats with Mathew Boice, Vice President EMEA & India, Ellucian to understand how the channel plays a role in the growing market of delivering technology solutions to the education sector

Taking stock

As data is generated by the minute through various mediums, Reseller ME explores the channel’s role in optimising storage solutions.

What wearable tech has up its sleeve for CES 2014

Wearable technology is an exploding field in desperate need of a category-defining product. And now, with the Consumer Electronics Show upon us, we get to see whether any company can release an uncompromised, mainstream consumer hit in 2014.

Innovate to profit

Adrian Pickering, Area Vice President, MEA, and Mario Georgiou, Area Partner Director, MEA, from Juniper Networks discuss the company’s partner strategy and the way forward

Why are so many IT projects failing?

Fifty percent of businesses had an IT project fail during the last year, according to a survey by cloud portfolio management provider Innotas. The primary reason, according to 74 percent of respondents, was a lack of resources to meet project demands.

A class of its own

All-in-one colour printers have been gaining popularity in the last few years. Reseller ME analyses why and how it impacts the channel.

Analysis: security weak spots

Reading the coverage of the recent breach of Adobe passwords, we learned that 1.9 million users used “123456” as their password. That’s right: out of 38 million cracked passwords, almost two million adults used ones more suited to five-year-olds.

Through the looking glass

And it was all going so well. As vendors began to build more comprehensive cloud-based product roadmaps, Middle Eastern users were beginning to see just how cloud services can streamline their businesses. According to a Gartner report from earlier in the year, cloud adoption was due to grow monumentally in the region up to 2016. This was largely due to issues surrounding security and compliance being ironed out.

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