Though U.S. officials have consistently blamed Iran for the ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against major …
IBM top patent producer 20 years running
IBM has always been bullish on patents and 2012 proved to be no exception. IBM once again amassed more patents …
Lenovo and EMC target SMBs with LenovoEMC collaboration
Two major IT brands, Lenovo and EMC, have collaborated on storage products in the SMB market by creating joint …
Blue Coat outlines top 5 BYOD traffic disruptors
Blue Coat has identified its Top 5 bring your own device (BYOD) traffic disruptors – activities and content sites that …
Windows 8 shifts 60m licenses
Microsoft has sold more than 60 million Windows 8 licenses so far, a number that is “roughly” in line with …
CIO SPOTLIGHT: Master of the trade
From front of house to IT, Mahmoud Kamal knows the hospitality industry inside out and has shown resilience, heart and …
Half of business networks breached by personal devices in 2012
Over half of the UK’s business IT networks (51 percent) were breached during 2012 due to employees using their personal …
CA Technologies appoints global boss
IT management solutions provider, CA Technologies, has appointed IT services industry veteran, Michael Gregoire, as chief executive officer (CEO), effective January …
Nicira CTO shares sneak peek of company’s SDN plans
Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent …
The scariest software project horror stories of 2012
Sure, plenty of enterprise software projects go just fine and end up giving customers all the things vendors promise: lower …
Top 10 tech stories of 2012
Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace …
Facebook sued over App Center data sharing
German consumer organisations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting …
IBM closes $1.3B Kenexa acquisition
IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based …
Rittal showcases data centre solution
Rittal Middle East, a system supplier for enclosures, power distribution, climate control, IT infrastructure and software and services, organised two …
Microsoft sells 40 million Windows 8 licenses
Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. “We believe Windows …
A forgotten cause
Dr Sassan Dieter Khatib-Shahidi, CEO, German Imaging Technologies (GIT) Dubai LLC, says the Middle East IT industry is not doing …
Microsoft promises Surface RT support until 2017
Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after …
Intel CEO Otellini set to retire in May
Intel CEO Paul Otellini will retire as an officer and director of the company in May, ending a four-decade career …
Schneider announces strong growth in last quarter
Schneider Electric today announced it has seen 4% growth in the last quarter, as well as 9% in the first …
Schneider Electric anticipates major cloud adoption in region
Schneider Electric has announced it has registered stable growth of four percent over the last quarter, as well as nine …