By launching the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardise the market for …
ARM leads march to 64-bit tablets, smartphones: analysts
ARM’s new 64-bit ARMv8 architecture could be used in tablets and smartphones in a few years, which could help deliver …
LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce
Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI today announced it will acquire SandForce, a maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class and consumer …
Spinning off PC group would have cost billions: HP
Spinning off its PC unit would have been too costly for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and that was one of the reasons …
Turning a new leaf
CIOs in the Middle East still struggle to give green ICT investments a business language, and this is hampering the …
Critical connections
KSA’s Jarir Bookstore battled the challenges associated with connecting disparate centres of business by deploying SonicWALL’s NSA Series and building …
EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage
EMC held its user forum last week and used the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualisation and the …
Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs
Quantum this week unveiled a backup appliance for $5,139 that offers smaller businesses 8TB of capacity and data deduplication capabilities …
Retail firms discuss data analytics at CNME’s CIO Council roundtable
SAS, a leader in business analytics, and Satvik, a consulting and analytics solutions provider got together to give retail end-users …
Information management software industry to reach revenues of $37 billion: Ovum
The global information management software market will reach revenues of $37.4 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) …
Salesforce.com to ‘unlock’ SAP’s core software for ‘social enterprises’
Salesforce.com is rolling out a set of consulting and integration services aimed at SAP customers who want to build a …
Microsoft quarter shows continued growth
Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012 with solid growth, reporting a 7% increase in revenue compared to …
“Touch has become ubiquitous”, Somanna Palacanda, Director of Marketing for Surface, Microsoft
Four years into the making and Microsoft?s Surface is beginning to look like the board room device of tomorrow. With …
VMware and NVIDIA to deliver true, virtual workstation experience
NVIDIA and VMware, announced today at VMworld 2011 a strategic partnership to advance virtual 3D graphics technology and enable the …
IBM announces preconfigured analytics servers
IBM yesterday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle’s Exadata. IBM’s Smart Analytics …
ARM unveils Cortex-A7 chip for smartphones
ARM Holdings has introduced the Cortex-A7, a new microprocessor design that will be used in sub-US$100 smartphones, as well as …
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, …
SAP and Dubal stress innovation as essential for the UAE
A vibrant and innovative IT sector will be vital for business development, sustainable job creation and economic diversification in the …
VMware unveils management portfolio for cloud era
VMware has unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations …
SAS launches D1 appliance at CNME’s CIO Council roundtable
At a crowded CIO Council roundtable today, the Middle East arm of SAS, an international leader in business analytics, announced …