IBM has recently unveiled a new product line of integrated sets of hardware and software, called PureSystems. Jim Stallings, GM …
Server sales continue to decline in EMEA region, says IDC
Revenue from server sales declined by about 12 percent year-on-year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the first …
Dell says AppAssure now its premier backup product
Despite its longstanding partnership with Symantec and CommVault, Dell says that products from recently acquired AppAssure will become the company’s primary backup …
Secure future
The year 2012 is dominated by three key trends – cloud, virtualisation and big data. These may be revolutionising the …
Arista 10G switch
Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks’ DCS-7508 data centre …
MEA server shipments increased 10% in 2011: Gartner
Server shipments in the MEA region exceeded 78,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 10.3% year-on-year increase, while …
Google and Amazon cut prices of cloud services
Both Google and Amazon have reduced the prices of their respective cloud-based services. Google has cut the price of its Cloud …
Organised for speed
The UAE-based Al Shirawi Group is one of the largest manufacturing, engineering, distribution, contracting and services industries conglomerates in the …
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 …
Linux benefits from rise of cloud and big data: study
Cloud computing and big data are driving business use of Linux at the expense of Windows and Unix, a Linex …
DEWA chooses GBM to augment server infrastructure
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has selected Gulf Business Machines (GBM) to augment the utility company’s server infrastructure. As …
HP to put Xeon chips in high-end Integrity servers
HP has updated the road map for its high-end Integrity servers to include systems that can accommodate both Xeon- and …
McNealy: I would have run HP if they’d asked me
Scott McNealy, the former chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, would have accepted the job of running Hewlett-Packard if he …
Path perfect
In the second part of the interview, Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare explains the path ahead for the company across …
Bank of England selects EMC SAN
The Bank of England has signed a contract with EMC to expand data storage with new SAN devices, as it …
Servers with new Intel Xeon E5 chips due early 2012: IDF
Servers with new Xeon E5 chips based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture will become available early next year, Intel officials …
Server shipments, revenue grow, Gartner says
Worldwide server shipments in the second quarter of 2011 grew 8 percent year on year, while revenue moved upward 19.5 …
Worldwide server revenues increase 19.5% – Gartner
Worldwide server shipments in the second quarter of 2011 grew 8% year on year, while revenue moved upward 19.5% year …
IDC declares ‘statistical tie’ between HP and IBM
IBM’s worldwide server revenue jumped a healthy 24.5% in the second quarter, putting it neck and neck with HP for …
F5 releases new storage virtualisation appliances
F5 Networks has announced the release of two new file virtualisation appliances, an entry-level offering and a midrange product that …