A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
The choice illusion
Recently I went shopping for a laptop. As a family, we have owned and still call ours a couple of …
A different beat
LTE, more tablets ,more apps. That pretty much sums up this year’s Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona. This bellwether …
Pre-nimbus perplexity
Just for once, let’s not talk cloud. Instead, let’s look at the technology initiative that, a few years back, was …
A word of advice
In the last month, separate CIO events were conducted in Dubai by two of the largest IT analyst groups in …
On a security conference
The 20th RSA security conference concluded last Friday at San Francisco Moscone Centre. Especially for someone like me, that had …
Doing a Ratner
It may be known only in the UK, but people in business anywhere in the world can recognise ‘that Ratner …
The quest for the data centre crown
Last month, on the sidelines of Brocade’s Annual Tech Day event in New York, I’d the opportunity to talk to …
Green vs. Cost – Moral vs. Financial
With like for like plant technology when comparing installation, footprint, CapEx etc for power and cooling solutions, and when we …
No optimisation in Dubai
On the one hand, IP09 in the UK focused very much on the theme of Optimisation, albeit was a much …
Space – the latest frontier?
This region, as much as any other in recent years, has been characterised by phenomenal growth, in businesses (large & …
SaaS it up
The present prevalent economic downturn has slowly started impacting telco’s cost and ability to serve customers. This growing problem may …
Does the data centre dustup favour Cisco?
Although the announcement didn’t come as a surprise to the IT industry, it is the way competitors lined up to …
How green is your valley?
Right from servers that consume lesser power, switches that drop to lower power while idle and even high-end videoconferencing systems, …