Whether it the flood of Apple iPad’s that made their way to the UAE or the Blackberry fiasco that ensued …
Cloud computing dominates IDC conference agenda
Running under the theme 'Building a Smarter Infrastructure', the event attracted more than 170 of the UAE's most prominent IT …
Juniper buys WLAN pioneer Trapeze
The purchase fills a gaping hole — WLANs — in Juniper's enterprise networking portfolio. Juniper had been evaluating WLAN players …
Juniper Networks to acquire Trapeze Networks
The acquisition is anticipated to close in the Q4 of 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and …
Brocade embarks on ME business expansion
The vendor also intends opening offices within the next year in Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt and Pakistan in addition to the …
Redington Gulf prepares for growth
In addition, Redington Gulf is also anticipating an increase in PC shipments to the Middle East by 30% in 2010 …
HP to buy ArcSight for $1.5 billion
Hewlett-Packard will soon purchase security vendor ArcSight for $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Citing unnamed sources, the …
The end of outsourcing
Most outsourcing analysts and consultants will tell you that the future of the traditional IT services industry is uncertain. Arjun …
Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says
The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought …
Server growth
Worldwide server shipments grew 27.1% year over year in Q2, while revenue climbed 14.3%, according to Gartner. “As in the …
3PAR finds HP's offer superior
Storage technology firm 3PAR confirmed late Friday that its board has accepted Hewlett-Packard's acqusition offer of $30 per share, ending …
Server sales post biggest jump since 2003, IDC says
Worldwide server sales posted their biggest jump since 2003 during the second quarter as Hewlett-Packard outsold rival IBM to take …
Brocade readying 100G Ethernet for data centers
Brocade Communications is preparing a 100-Gigabit Ethernet module for its NetIron MLX switch family, breaking the next LAN speed barrier …
Time for change
Breaking up is hard to do. And when it comes to IT outsourcing, it can be expensive and risky, too. …
Speedy justice
The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) ensures the delivery and administration of justice and equality for all citizens and residents …
RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in
Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary …
The supercomputer on your desktop
One reason is that processing that took an hour on a standard PC about eight years ago now takes six …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
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 …
Oil spill partly caused by IT failures
The news comes as US officials announced BP had begun to slow the rate that oil is spewing into the …