New entrant to the Egyptian mobile market, Etisalat Misr has carved out an enviable slice of the local market through …
Emitac Distribution partners with Azeti
Regional distributor, Emitac Distribution has signed a distribution agreement with Azeti Networks, a manufacturer of innovative high-performance solutions that monitor …
Intel and Micron shrink NAND flash
Intel and Micron Technology said they had shrunk NAND flash memory in size, which could help add more storage and …
Red Hat becomes cloud service provider
Red Hat officials never seem to stop talking about cloud computing, but until recently all the company’s efforts were targeted at …
Raising the bar
The UAE-based Landmark Group is one of the largest retail and hospitality conglomerates in the Middle East and India, operating …
Certifications that matter
As companies look bridge talent holes in their IT organisations, there is an increased emphasis on vendor-and technology-specific training. Here …
VMWare’s Cloud Foundry opens PaaS
VMware unveiled an open platform-as-a-service offering on Tuesday that supports multiple programming frameworks including Spring for Java, Ruby on Rails …
Comstor wins global award at Cisco Partner Summit
Comstor, a dedicated VAD of Cisco networking, collaboration and data centre solutions and a business unit of the Westcon Group, …
IBM expected to launch Websphere 8 in June 2011
IBM plans to release the next version of its flagship Java application server, Websphere 8, on June 17, according to …
Security investments in region are shifting, says IBM’s Lamb
“IT security investments in the Middle East are fast shifting from intrusion protection technology to more database protection solutions, although …
Alcatel launches “smart deskphone”
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the availability of its innovative “smart deskphone” on a range of communications platforms. The Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch 8082 …
Kaspersky aims for top three slots in IT security
Kaspersky Lab has announced plans to refine its organisational structure and become one of the top three IT security solutions …
Oracle releases free version of 11g database in beta
Oracle 11g Express Edition (XE), the free-of-charge version of Oracle’s flagship database, is now in beta. “XE provides an “entry-level, …
Comstor wins Cisco honour
Comstor, a dedicated value added distributor of Cisco networking, collaboration and data center solutions and a business unit of Westcon …
Orbit Showtime consolidates network with Orange
Orange Business Services, the B2B arm of France Telecom, has signed a three-year agreement with OSN – Orbit Showtime Network …
Cisco expands fabric technology across infrastructure
The recent data centre splash from Cisco means customers can now begin to implement the company’s fabric technology just about …
Save lives with IT collaboration: UN
A United Nations report into disaster relief calls for improved data sharing and technology collaboration between agencies to help save …
An EPIC story-WFP’s new IT platform developed in Dubai
The World Food Programme (WFP), one of the largest humanitarian agencies in the larger UN system, has recently finished development …
Web pages compromised in mass injection attack
More than 50,000 webpages have been compromised in an SQL injection attack that has been dubbed Lizamoon. Security firm Websense …
CIOs rely on outsourcers for process innovation, reveals survey
A survey of European CIOs reveals that 67% of IT leaders rely on outsourcers to turn ideas into new and …