The popularity of netbooks has been so appealing that Chinese PC powerhouse Lenovo is weighing in on the options of …
Being counterintuitive
In a world where most people use computers at home, where the Internet is a basic medium for everyone and …
A datacentre with that server?
Faced with the continued commoditisation of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward …
A line of vision
IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT DR AISHA Butti Bin Bishr, former director of corporate excellence at The Executive Council …
The virtual desktop
“Desktop virtualisation changes the way people use computers. It is not a physical thing that sits on your desk; it …
Map to the future
There has been a major shift in CEO priorities from early in 2009 with top priorities switching from cutting costs to …
A perfect fit
It would seem obvious that for the effective functioning of an enterprise data centre it is imperative that both IT …
Silo state
It is here. Information explosion and excess data are realities that we as individuals, and as members of larger organisations, have …
Made for the Middle East
Technology vendors never miss a chance to state that the Middle East market is a very crucial one for them. …
Mission: Obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Formed in 1995, the Doha-based Foundation is dedicated to building human capital …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Pano Logic appoints Middle East distributor
Pano Logic solves major challenges inherent in the current PC-based, client-server computing model, while providing end users with the same, …
Virtualising the Wide Area Network
Mission-critical applications such as high-frequency trading engines demand the lowest latency and highest availability—features typically provided by optical networks or …
Brocade to grow its IP business
Networking solutions vendor Brocade is aware that competition in the networking arena is getting tougher by the day. It is …
WAN optimisation goes virtual
While the benefits of WAN optimisation are well documented-better application performance, cost reductions and bandwidth savings, to name a few- …
IBM BladeCenter H
Everything about the IBM BladeCenter H just screams IBM, from the mainframe-like aesthetics to the spartan management interface — even …
Not standing still
Although not a completely new message to the market, the HP Tech Forum 2010 in Las Vegas saw the tech …
Unifying storage
With storage it’s just like with everything else: there are different approaches. Take a bike, a two seater, a wagon, …
Dell has new UAE country manager
Based in Dubai, Moufarrej will be responsible for growing Dell’s commercial business across the region and will work closely with …
Carrier Ethernet grows up
There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and — let's be honest –more than a …