It might be just another year in the technology evolution chain, but vendors believe that 2012 will bring with it …
Do and re-do
Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look …
HP updates software for cloud
Hewlett-Packard has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their …
Oman International Bank opts for SunGard solutions
Oman International Bank has chosen SunGard to help integrate treasury operations, reduce operational costs and better manage its cash, liquidity …
CIO 50 Awards honours the region’s leading IT decision makers
CIO 50 Awards and Forum 2012, the event honouring the leading lights of IT leadership in the Middle East, came …
Ultrabook shipments to reach 178mn by 2016: Juniper Research
Ultrabooks will grow at three times the rate of tablets over the next five years, according to Juniper Research, with …
Big and growing
Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. …
Healthcare should take up digital trends: mHealth conference
Mobile health is here and will change the way people in the Middle East receive health care and interact with …
Google shuts down multiple services
Google will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase, amongst changes to other services, it announced on Friday. Google …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Retail banking technology spending to increase by $1.2bn this year
Retail banking technology spending in the Asia Pacific region is expected to increase by $1.2 billion this year and will …
Learning innovation
Although young to the UAE, the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi is making the right investments to offer a competitive …
WAN optimisation gets cloud-ready
WAN optimisation is going to be critical in guaranteeing application performance in cloud environments. WAN optimisation has been typically deployed …
US government CIO joins Salesforce
The U.S federal government’s first ever CIO Vivek Kundra has joined Salesforce as executive vice president of emerging markets. “Excited …
“We are a supply chain services provider in the emerging markets” Raj Shankar, Managing Director, Redington Gulf
Shankar heads the largest IT distribution business in the region. At close to Dollar Two billion, Redington Gulf has the …
NetBase, SAP offer social media analytics
To help global enterprises capitalise on the use of social media data, SAP AG and NetBase have announced that SAP …
GSMA partners with Qtel, Qualcomm to launch mobile health university challenge
“Pressures on the health services around the world are growing and mobile is seen as a channel to deliver …
GE, Microsoft launch JV aimed at global healthcare system transformation
General Electric Company through its healthcare IT business and Microsoft announced plans to create a joint venture aimed at helping …
HP bets big on information optimisation
HP is betting its future on big data and is hoping its acquisition of software company Autonomy will help drive …
Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration
Dell Wednesday unveied a new disk-based backup appliance that can perform data deduplication and replication tasks. The company today also …