After forming in 2009 and stalling a couple of times since, the Open Cloud Initiative formally launched yesterday in an …
Inevitable Innovations
As organisations across the world invest in a variety of applications to differentiate themselves from competitors, developers of these applications …
Sneak peek into Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 features
Oracle yesterday announced a sneak peak at features slated for MySQL 5.6, the next version of its open-source database, that …
Mo’men Group deploys Oracle E-Business Suite to boost growth
Oracle today announced that Mo’men Group, a food processing company in Egypt with a diversified portfolio of fast food chains, …
Navigating wireless landscape
With 802.11n, enterprise Wi-Fi networks are shifting from convenient to critical. They’re becoming the preferred and primary network access for users …
Google being investigated for not playing fair
Google is being scrutinised by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for allegedly deceptive practices when it comes to online search …
Global market for AML technologies witnesses record growth
The emergence of Anti Money Laundering (AML) technologies has helped drive in a fresh wave of demand across the global …
Region’s smart card market set for marked growth
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) smart cards market will reach USD 328.5m by 2014, with the telecommunication sector …
EMC expands high end storage market reach with VMAXe storage system
EMC Corporation today introduced the new EMC Symmetrix VMAXe storage system, innovative storage technology designed for virtualised cloud and mission …
Canon Middle East assumes responsibility over East African markets
Canon Middle East, announced it is assuming responsibility over operations in East African markets as part of a strategy to …
Norton reveals top threats targeting smartphones
Cybercrooks are increasingly capitalising on the mass adoption of mobile devices by exploiting smartphone users, at home or at work. …
Android phones help poor farmers in Uganda
Mobile-phone companies and aid agencies have talked for years about deploying feature phones, coupled with basic text information services about …
Subway changes its menu, adds SaaS
Subway is a fast-food franchise operation with some 35,000 restaurants worldwide. Like many big enterprises, it expected to host a …
Yahoo revenue drops as display ad business slows
Yahoo’s total revenue took a steep dive in the second quarter as it struggled in display advertising, a core market …
MBC selects Limelight solutions for online video publishing
Limelight Networks, today announced that Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) has selected Limelight as its sole solutions provider for online …
Asia Pacific traders prefer open source: Red Hat
Some of the busiest stock exchanges in the region have shown a preference for open source software as indicated by …
Structuring data
Comprehensive data management – bringing together structured and unstructured information – within an organisation is popularly touted as the next …
VMware leading virtualisation market: V-Index survey
VMware is the primary hypervisor for 58% of organisations that use x86 virtualisation software, with Citrix and Microsoft’s Hyper-V splitting …
Adobe acquires electronic signature company EchoSign
Adobe Systems has acquired EchoSign, a web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation, for an undisclosed amount. Adobe plans …
Everybody wants to be connected to Exadata: Polk
Oracle wants to triple the number of installed Exadata database machines to 3,000 in its current fiscal year, and it …