Oracle has announced plans to acquire Internet performance and DNS provider Dyn in an effort to pump up its cloud-based offerings.
Why platform innovation is coming of age
The country right now is buzzing with talk of digital innovation and the opportunities it presents to small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Al Sahraa Group launches duo of smart apps
Driven to develop its diversified business, transport and logistics provider Al Sahraa Group has developed in-house software to provide better accountability of its processes, which has enabled the firm to build a duo of sleek customer-facing apps.
IBM, General Motors introduce new cognitive mobility platform
General Motors and IBM have announced a partnership to bring the power of OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go – the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform.
F5 Networks’ Diego Arrabal on securing a cloud-first world
Diego Arrabal, Director, F5 Networks, MEA, says it is time to modernise security in the cloud-first, mobile-centric world.
Gulftainer adopts in-memory database for ‘real-time’ insights
Aligning with the business’s digital transformation vision, Gulftainer’s IT department has recently rolled out SAP S4/HANA to provide ‘real-time’ insights into key business decisions. As one of the first Middle East customers to go live with the solution in September, Group IT Head Vinay Sharma reflects on the benefits that are expected to come.
Centre of transformation
Legacy data centres may have been a blue chip company dominated space but today smaller organisations too are eyeing the space, thanks to evolving business models. Reseller ME puts the spotlight on the regional data centre market and the opportunities it presents for the channel community.
Peace of mind
The increasing use of digital technologies within hospitals is bringing about significant changes to healthcare. How can the industry ensure that these new technologies work to both physicians’ and patients’ best advantage?
The infrastructure of things
Are networks prepared for the era where tens of billions of connected devices dominate the enterprise?
The race to 5G
While it may still be years away, developing an understanding of how 5G will impact your enterprise will be hugely beneficial in the long run.
Verizon aims to pump up its IoT presence with fleet management deal
Verizon Communications plans to buy cloud-computing-focused fleet management firm Fleetmatics Group, in a deal that will pump up the telecom carrier’s internet of things portfolio.
Building the next Smart City
With Dubai Expo 2020 also on the horizon, the government is solidly behind smart development initiatives. As the UAE ushers in this new era of advancement, much has been predicted and promised about the integration of ICT into every aspect of completed city developments.
The need for speed
Adrian Pickering, Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Juniper Networks, describes how businesses can be empowered by network innovations to compete in the fast-moving digital economy.
Multi-factor authentication goes mainstream
Good-bye username plus password, hello smartphone plus thumbprint
Going virtual
Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) promises to significantly change the way telecom networks are built and operated. However, there remain several challenges to widespread adoption.
Data curators
On a recent visit to the UAE, SAP CEO Bill McDermott told James Dartnell about the company’s plans to build a data centre in Dubai, with the possibility of an additional site in Riyadh.
Ericsson takes part at Smart City Expo Istanbul
Ericsson has presented its latest solutions in the field of smart sustainable cities at the Smart City Expo Istanbul held on 1st to 3rd June at the Halic Congress Centre in Istanbul, Turkey.
Bahrain’s Kalaam Telecom joins Etisalat SmartHub
Etisalat has recently announced its partnership with Kalaam Telecom, a telecommunications provider for corporate services in Bahrain, to establish point of presence (PoP) at Etisalat’s SmartHub in UAE.
Study reveals companies see IT as a customer-focused business
EMC Corporation has recently held their fourth annual CIO Connect Summit at the Yas Viceroy, Abu Dhabi, on 25th – 26th May, during which the company EMC also highlighted the findings of its State of IT Transformation report.
Consumer is king
As data centres move towards being software-defined, application response time is deemed as more important than infrastructure capacity management. With applications consisting of a plethora of services delivered from a range of resources, end-user experience (EUE) is key.