Huawei Technologies wants to be the number one choice for enterprises, especially in emerging markets, and is using its solutions …
Architecting growth
Not known for making bold investments in ICT, the construction sector is showing signs of rapid change. Pallavi Sharma discovers …
Alcatel promises better clouds for carriers
Alcatel-Lucent is developing a cloud computing platform for carriers that aims to take full advantage of their networks to deliver …
EMEA enterprise IT spend will decline: Gartner
Enterprise IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will reach €604 billion in 2011, a 1.4% decline …
Web sales through mobile apps and social presence to grow exponentially: Gartner
By 2015, companies will generate 50% of Web sales via their social presence and mobile applications, according to Gartner. Vendors …
Non-IT managers driving decisions on ICT investments: IDC Energy Insights
IDC Energy Insights’ latest annual survey of Western European utilities shows that utilities have positive expectations for the near future, …
Challenging the norm
Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) has managed something most IT managers only dream of – implement a network and …
DEWA creates first utility application with Samsung Smart TVs
Samsung Electronics and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) established an exclusive partnership which allows customers to utilise and benefit …
ADEC set to transform education With Cisco solutions
Cisco today announced that the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) has chosen a Cisco Borderless Networks solution to transform productivity and …
Citrix accelerates cloud strategy with acquisition of ShareFile
Citrix Systems recently announced it has completed the acquisition of ShareFile, a market leading provider of secure, cloud-based data storage, …
Nokia lays off 3,500 employees
Nokia is planning to lay off an additional 3,500 employees, as the company continues to restructure after announcing its decision …
New vCloud offerings accelerate journey to the hybrid cloud: VMware
VMware a virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions provider, today announced several new vCloud offerings that will make it easy for …
MasterCard gives sneak peek into mobile payments future
MasterCard over the weekend gave a sneak peek into the near future of mobile payment systems and said that the …
Connection in progress
IP telephony is only part of the gains expected from unified IP communication The business case to move to a …
99.999% availability
Fault tolerant servers from Stratus have redundant components and can ensure annual downtime is less than 6 minutes Stratus Technologies …
Syncplicity expands cloud storage to the iPad
The cloud-storage service Syncplicity has revamped its iOS app, expanding the previously iPhone-only offering into a iPad-friendly universal version that …
Avoiding telecom slippery slope
Telecom operators worldwide face numerous obstacles to continued success: stagnating growth; heightened competition; and growing consumer sophistication. As these trends …
MTN, Opera partner in Africa, Middle East
The soaring demand for faster Internet connectivity in Africa and the Middle East has led regional operator MTN to partner …
Norton reveals smartphones threats
Cybercrooks are increasingly capitalising on the mass adoption of mobile devices by exploiting smartphone users at home or at work. …
Gartner evaluates maturity of 1900 technologies in special report
Gartner’s 2011 Hype Cycle Special Report provides strategists and planners with an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future …