GITEX Shopper was officially opened yesterday by His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the …
FDC holds 1st annual channel conference
FDC recently hosted a channel conference for its partners from the MENA and CIS region. The event brought together 120 of the company’s channel partners who participated in a series of vendor focused presentations and workshops at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai.
GITEX Shopper to be held at Dubai World Trade Centre
With analysts expecting the UAE’s consumer electronics market expected to reach a record US$3.8 billion this year, and an ever-growing demand for exhibition space at GITEX Shopper, organisers of the region’s largest consumer IT and electronics show have announced the relocation of the show this year to the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).
Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a …
The storage dilemma
Here’s the ultimate question about storage, do we tend to store lots of rubbish because we have loads of empty …
Women of the channel- The go-getter
Newly appointed channel sales manager, for Seagate Middle East, Aysha Mir began her career with a company called Ideal Hardware …
60TB disk drives could be a reality in 2016
The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives are expected to more than double by 2016, according to an IHS …
Greenplum Analytics Workbench announced at EMC World 2012
At EMC World 2012, EMC announced that the Greenplum Analytics Workbench – a 1,000-node cluster that will act as a …
“We are a supply chain services provider in the emerging markets” Raj Shankar, Managing Director, Redington Gulf
Shankar heads the largest IT distribution business in the region. At close to Dollar Two billion, Redington Gulf has the …
HDD washout in Thailand
October?s flooding of Thailand has knocked out close to half of the global hard disk manufacturing base. Normalcy will take …
China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns
After winning the approval of regulators in Europe, Australia, and Japan, Western Digital may have hit a snag in its …
Hard drive manufacturers slash warranty periods
Seagate and Western Digital are cutting back on hard drive warranties, in some instances from five years to one, in …
Impact of hard drive shortage to linger through 2013: IDC
Hard disk drive supply shortages in the wake of Thailand flooding will continue to affect consumers, computer system manufacturers and …
Thailand floods will hurt overall PC shipments: IDC
Widespread flooding in Thailand will directly impact PC markets in the first half of next year, with worldwide shipments dropping …
Value spin off
Almasa has chosen to spin off its value division leveraging on industry stalwart Roger El Tawil to deliver on the …
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 …
OCZ releases its first hybrid drive
OCZ has introduced its first hybrid drive, the RevoDrive Hybrid, which combines 100GB of NAND flash memory with a 1TB …
Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix yesterday launched its first product, a slim, virtualised server that is clustered together with solid state and hard …
Packard Bell’s summer wave
With its new range of consumer products ready to roll, Packard Bell is hoping to regain its market share this …
Maingear EX-L 15 Gaming Laptop
Building high-performance gaming components into a 15-inch laptop chassis is an exercise in compromise. What you get is a little …