Shankar heads the largest IT distribution business in the region. At close to Dollar Two billion, Redington Gulf has the …
NetBase, SAP offer social media analytics
To help global enterprises capitalise on the use of social media data, SAP AG and NetBase have announced that SAP …
GSMA partners with Qtel, Qualcomm to launch mobile health university challenge
“Pressures on the health services around the world are growing and mobile is seen as a channel to deliver …
GE, Microsoft launch JV aimed at global healthcare system transformation
General Electric Company through its healthcare IT business and Microsoft announced plans to create a joint venture aimed at helping …
HP bets big on information optimisation
HP is betting its future on big data and is hoping its acquisition of software company Autonomy will help drive …
Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration
Dell Wednesday unveied a new disk-based backup appliance that can perform data deduplication and replication tasks. The company today also …
Enterprises to buy more Apple Macs and iPads in 2012
Enterprises buying Apple Macs and iPads will increase by 58% in 2012, an analyst with Forrester Research said yesterday. Corporations …
Intel enters smartphone market
Intel on Tuesday announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones after years of uphill struggle …
Cisco and Etisalat sign strategic MOU
(Left to Right) Etisalat Group CEO, HE Ahmad Abdul Karim Julfar and Cisco’s Senior Vice President for Emerging Markets, Duncan …
Dubai’s dancers break marathon record using Microsoft Kinect Dance Central 2
A duo of dancers broke the standing record of non-stop video game marathon dancing using Microsoft Kinect’s Dance Central 2 …
Trend Micro revamps partner programme
Trend Micro has announced an aggressive new partner programme focused on rewarding proactive partners, driving new business, customer retention, while …
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to …
Google Chrome finally gets malware download protection
Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently …
Symantec confirms source cod leak in enterprise security products
Symantec confirmed, just before the start of the Middle East weekend, that source code used in two of its older …
Data appliance for SMEs
SAS and EMC Greenplum come together in the region to launch a power packed data management solution for SMEs In …
Visioglobe and Flagship tie up for map services
Visioglobe, a French company that specialises in visualisation of map data on smart phones, has entered into a strategic partnership …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …
IBM acquiring Green Hat
IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, …
Huawei debuts Giga DSL prototype
Huawei has launches what it says is the industry’s first Giga Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) prototype. The Giga DSL system …
Qtel launches high capacity network solution
Qtel Business Solutions (QBS) today launched an innovative new network solution that that will allow customers with high bandwidth requirements …