In a world where most people use computers at home, where the Internet is a basic medium for everyone and …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
Entry and exit
Identity management (IDM) is no longer what it used to be. From the most basic access management IDM has become …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
Measure for measure
Information security metrics have a bad rep. Mention metrics to a CISO and immediately his thoughts may well turn to …
Silo state
It is here. Information explosion and excess data are realities that we as individuals, and as members of larger organisations, have …
Dell to acquire storage vendor Ocarina Networks
Dell announced Monday that it plans to acquire Ocarina Networks, a maker of hardware and software designed to reduce the …
Brocade aims high
At its annual Brocade Technology Day held in New York, the company took the wraps off Brocade One – its …
Cisco vs Juniper
The argument began in 1996 with Juniper's founding; until then, Cisco had ruled the router roost in both the enterprise …
And the winners are…
The awards which honoured the Middle East’s channel architects are a barometer for measuring which vendors, distributors, SIs, resellers and …
Global data storage demands to rocket in next decade
The amount of information in the world is set to rise 44-fold in the next decade according to IDC, with …
And the winner is
The Awards that recognized innovative IT initiatives and product leadership were presented at a glittering gala dinner and awards ceremony …
High speed datacentre backups
“EMC has far exceeded the inline deduplication performance benchmark it set with its previous top-of-line Data Domain system, but more …
Dell announces object-based storage, de-duplication
Dell has announced its first object-oriented storage system for data archiving capable of storing more than 2 petabytes of data. …
Paramount opens office in Oman
This latest addition takes the number of Paramount offices across the region to six including its headquarters in Dubai and …
Seven questions with Cisco CEO John Chambers
This goal of being the number one IT company puts Cisco into a different market. People know you as the …
Ciena completes Nortel business unit acquisition
The $773.8 million (USD) aggregate purchase price for the acquisition consists entirely of cash. The purchase price is subject to …
RSA extends security tools to VMware
EMC's RSA division is embracing the virtualization trend that its VMware spinoff helped kick off, announcing that three of its …
IDC: Worldwide disk storage capacity grows 33% in 2009
The amount of disk storage capacity shipped worldwide grew 33.4% in 2009, with more than 3.3 petabytes worth of capacity …