Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
The faster new world of healthcare
The healthcare industry is on the brink of unprecedented change.
Apache embraces cloud with Deltacloud approval
Extending its range of open-source projects to cloud computing, the Apache Software Foundation has approved the Deltacloud as a top-level …
Mobile apps fail at security: viaForensics
A study from digital security company viaForensics paints a stark picture of the vulnerability of smartphone user data. viaForensics evaluated …
OpenLogic to launch tool to build open source software support
Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of …
MEA region strategic to growth: EMC
EMC describes itself as a “global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information …
Dubai Financial Market leverages power of the cloud
Dubai Financial Market (DFM) has harnessed the power of Microsoft Windows Azure to host a visually compelling, streamlined and innovative …
Jobs unveils free iCloud sync, storage service
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today took the stage at his company’s annual developers conference to tout the new iOS 5, …
New ‘Mango’ Windows Phone version integrates apps
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled many new features to its Windows Phone software but it left out a few that some …
Apple topples Google as top brand, says report
Apple has topped Google as the most valuable brand in the world, according to a study released over the weekend …
EBay to acquire GSI Commerce
EBay has agreed to acquire for about US$2.4 billion GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and …
Stepping out of the shadow into the cloud
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker took a step out of Mark Hurd’s shadow yesterday, unveiling a new cloud computing platform that …
VMware buys WaveMaker, aims to ease app development
VMware said yesterday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications. WaveMaker …
Advice to an SP
He sums it up like this: “Content is important for people and people are important for service providers. Content excites …
Unified Communications in the cloud
Unified communications (UC) as we know it today is flawed. The initial investment is simply too high for the return, …
The end of outsourcing
Most outsourcing analysts and consultants will tell you that the future of the traditional IT services industry is uncertain. Arjun …
Cloud security: Try these techniques now
For Logiq³ Inc., the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a …
Cloud security: Try these techniques now
For Logiq³ Inc., the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a …
Should you move your small business to the cloud?
Cloud computing. For some, the term is wildly nebulous. Not long ago, even Oracle's Larry Ellison publicly asked what the …
Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying it
For all the hype around cloud computing, few business customers are actually storing data on Web-based platforms, according to a …