Mainframes are stable, secure and under your control – perfect for anchoring a private cloud- but where’s user provisioning? Mention …
Backup to the future
I was shocked to hear recently that an established telecoms company had lost revenue because its billing system wasn’t backed …
What comes round
When I first started writing about enterprise IT, some 25 years ago, there were three key areas of interest for …
More fibre in the telecom diet?
There’s been strangely little fuss about Etisalat’s announcement that Abu Dhabi is now the first capital city entirely covered with …
Data – the big picture
In the modern world, data overwhelms us. The power of numbers seems, more than anything, else the power to confuse …
The truth about malvertisements
Online advertisements are a part of our daily browsing experience as it has also become an essential part of companies’ …
Dubai – a different future?
Before I finally leave Dubai, a place I’ve worked in for 20 years and called home for the last ten, …
Haves vs. have-nots
A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
SecureVAD to recruit partners
SecureVAD, the exclusive distributor for STEALTHbits across EMEA and Asia-PAC is planning to set up shop in the UAE. The …
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 …