According to research firm Gartner, the Middle East and Africa IT infrastructure market is set to reach $3.9 billion in …
Google unveils touchscreen Chromebook Pixel
Google on Thursday unveiled the $1,299 touchscreen Chromebook Pixel, a pricey slab of hardware that runs Google’s Web-centric Chrome OS, but defies …
VCE announces two systems, SAP HANA qualification
Calling it the biggest news since its creation, VCE last week added two low-end models to its line of Vblock …
Coke bottler forgoes SAP for SaaS
A recent Gartner report showed that even in the poorest segments of the SaaS market, the annual growth rate is …
Citrix unveils MDM tool for Android, iOS devices
Citrix on Wednesdy announced XenMobile, a rebranded and integrated mobile device management (MDM) software, which the company acquired through its acquisition …
Dell comes out fighting
Dell executives went on the offensive this week, claiming that the firm can trump Cisco in the information technology security market, as …
Cisco declares war on Microsoft’s Lync
Cisco has apparently declared war on Microsoft’s unified communications platform, having chosen the eve of the first Lync conference to describe …
HP makes huge converged portfolio announcements at GPC 2013
HP today announced major innovations that strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio, on day one of its global partner conference in Las Vegas, USA.
The virtual legacy
It took a long time for companies to come around to the idea of virtualising their environments. Virtualisation is a …
Pick of the bunch
When somebody decides to host a global tour, one of the things they have to decide is in which city …
Symantec awards EMEA channel partners
Symantec on Monday announced the 2012 EMEA Channel Excellence Award winners at its annual EMEA partner conference, recognising six partners …
It’s all about mid-market
The burgeoning mid-market is offers a plethora of opportunities for the channel willing to invest in services and solutions, and …
du virtualises with Cisco Unified Data Centre
du announced on Wednesday that it will deploy the foundation layer for its virtualised infrastructure based on Cisco’s Unified Computing …
Cisco posts Q2 revenue increase
Cisco CEO John Chambers has reiterated the company’s ambitions to become the biggest company in IT after the firm posted …
Symantec unveils super-secure SSL certificates
Symantec on Wednesday began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what’s known …
Grappling with information management
A holistic approach to information management means big benefits in cost reduction and risk management, says Allen Mitchell, Senior Technical …
Defining the new value
With a right combination of resources, Alamasa Value Distribution is bringing technology solutions to the market and in the process, …
Cyber security challenges in 2013
The security issues affecting businesses are similar around the world, writes Florian Malecki, Head of Product Marketing Manager –EMEA, Dell …
Blazing a new trail
Karl Driesen, VP EMEA, Palo Alto Networks
Unstoppable force
When Cisco sold its home networking arm, Linksys, to rival Belkin in January, the firm said that it wanted to …