Stephen Phillips, head of Bain & Company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa IT practice, speaks about IT transformation, how to make effective investments in IT and IT programme management.
On the fringe
With margins for traditional commodity gear at all-time low, partners are looking to the peripherals market to make up on lost revenue.
du swoops Green prize at Asia Communication Awards
du recently announced that it is the recipient of The Green Award from the Asia Communication Awards, in recognition of its extensive green initiatives. The award was received by AbdulMajid Harmoodi, Director of Electro Mechanical Division, du, during a ceremony held at the Conrad Centennial, Singapore.
Huawei outlines telecom managed services roadmap
Huawei has outlined a series of recommendations and expectations for how telecom managed services contacts will be planned, executed and evaluated according to operator business outcomes rather than simply network KPIs.
R&M commits to R&D of the 40GBASE-T data centre
Swiss structured cabling specialist, R&M Middle East, Turkey and Africa, today announced its active contribution to the research and development of the 40GBASE-T data centre cabling standard through its involvement with international standardisation bodies and measuring equipment manufacturers.
Prologix bags deal with Anite Finland
Anite Finland Ltd today announced that it has signed on Prologix Distribution as an authorised distribution partner for its NEMO range of network management solutions in GCC.
MATCO wins second successive EMC award
For the second year in a row, MATCO came out a big winner at the 2013 EMC Europe, Middle East and Africa Velocity Solution Provider Breakout awards.
Everything and all
Cisco is in the hefty transition between networking giant and total IT company. At Cisco Live! 2013 in Florida, it claimed the vehicle to get it there will be a new business group and partner ecosystem revolved around the ‘Internet of Everything’. Ben Rossi reports.
Kaspersky Lab MD resigns, announces immediate replacement
Kaspersky Lab’s regional managing director, Tarek Kuzbari, has announced that he has resigned from his post and that corporate sales …
WD offers “ultimate mobile storage solution”
WD today announced the availability of the My Passport Ultra line of portable hard drives, which combine additional layers of data protection with super-fast USB 3.0 connectivity, a slim, compact design and four colour choices to offer mobile consumers the safest and easiest way to protect their digital content while travelling.
Alcatel-Lucent signs with Jumbo Electronic to renovate services
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a unique deal with Jumbo Electronics to refresh and renovate its data centre, LAN infrastructure and Wi-Fi services, the vendor revealed.
Red Hat reveals new VP for global strategic alliances
Red Hat today announced that it has named a new vice president of Global Strategic Alliances. Scott Musson, previously of VMware, will be responsible for Red Hat’s global alliance, system integrator and independent software vendor (ISV) relationships, and will manage Red Hat’s strategic relationships with HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco.
Do-it-yourself Big Data
Gulf Air shunned the expensive solutions of the big vendors jumping on the Big Data bandwagon, and became the first Middle East organisation to implement the technology by embracing open-source software with an in-house team.
You have 1 new hack request
If 3,370,780 UAE residents use Facebook, and 80 percent of those replicate their passwords for other accounts, then the opportunity for cyber theft and hackers to infiltrate personal accounts is extremely high.