Over the past few months, numerous articles have been published citing the CFO’s increasingly influential role in IT. So, as …
Oracle buys InQuira to boost Fusion CRM
Oracle is buying knowledge management vendor InQuira in order to improve the capabilities of its Fusion and Siebel CRM (customer …
Employees enjoy work-related mobile apps: Sybase
Employees enjoy using work-related mobile apps, especially on smartphones and tablets that they choose themselves, according to a new survey …
Inevitable Innovations
As organisations across the world invest in a variety of applications to differentiate themselves from competitors, developers of these applications …
Just in time for Psilog
Spectrum’s acquisition made in 2009 is showing potential for good returns based on Dubai’s positive trading outlook In 2009, Ajay …
Cisco to cut 6,500 jobs in cost-cutting blitz
Cisco Systems will cut about 6,500 jobs as part of an effort to focus its business and reduce operating expenses …
Cisco makes additions to data centre and cloud portfolio
At Cisco Live, the company’s annual IT and communications conference, Cisco today introduced new technology to increase the efficiency and …
CFOs reigning over IT investments: Gartner
In an increasing number of organisations, it’s not the CIO who’s deciding which IT projects should get funding — it’s …
Netting profits
Based on the popular belief that customers are constantly shopping for better experiences, retail organisations across the globe are investing …
Is the BlackBerry PlayBook for you?
In early May, I was one of the fortunate few in the UAE to have had a BlackBerry PlayBook in …
Apple, Microsoft consortium outbids Google for Nortel patents
Nortel Networks has auctioned off its remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium of key technology companies for a …
BPOS users must wait for Office365 :Microsoft
Office 365 is now officially out, but customers of the suite’s previous version, called BPOS, will have to wait at …
Storm that cometh
Virtualisation and cloud technologies are storming their way into enterprise infrastructure deployments. But, what happens to networks and their management, …
Itqan’s second wave
Growing competition and increasing regional demand for its services are making it bullish to cross over When Feras Al-Jabi, General …
Driving innovation
With more organisations making the transition to virtual computing it is time to understand the basis for successful implementation of …
Mid-market CIOs focus on analytics: IBM
Implementing business analytics has risen to the top of midmarket CIOs’ to-do lists, according to a new IBM study announced …
Peel away controls
The dirty little secret of iOS remote control devices is that the vast majority of them are terrible. And they …
Business analytics is all the buzz at SUGMENA conference
The buzz was all about the increasing importance, functionality and relevance of business analytics (BA) in organisations around the world …
Networking chief Haas leaving HP
Marius Haas, who led Hewlett-Packard’s networking business through the 3Com acquisition that made it a broader competitor to Cisco Systems, …
HP networking chief Marius Haas leaving
Marius Haas, who led Hewlett-Packard’s(HP) networking business through the 3Com acquisition that made it a broader competitor to Cisco Systems, …