Enterprises across the Middle East risk damaging their businesses through the use of pirated software, with an estimated two-thirds of …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Backing Up and Restoring a Microsoft Exchange Environment
Backup and restore: Are you running an organisation where your Microsoft Exchange servers are considered mission critical? Learn more in …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Omar Obeidat
Omar Obeidat has been with the IP/IT department at Al Tamimi & Company since 2000. He gained valuable experience at …
Security trends to watch in 2010
The IT industry has reached an inflection point where new malicious programs are actually being created at a higher rate …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
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 …
Forming links
It is a well documented fact that the Middle East remains a largely IT hardware market to date. As the …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
Striking back
It can’t be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft’s chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill …
Executive exchange
At the recent SAP user group (SUG) MENA meet held in Bahrain, customers of the German-software giant got together to …
A perfect fit
It would seem obvious that for the effective functioning of an enterprise data centre it is imperative that both IT …
Reviving ERP
Everybody knows it. The major ERP suites are old and not as flexible as some newer stuff, and they can’t build …
Riyadh Municipality invests US$5m in call centre
25 July 2010 The Municipality of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia has invested USD 5 million towards an initiative called ‘Emergency …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
The security channel
For organisations too big to outsource all security functions and too small to have their own IT army, the mid-market …
HP consolidates, protects data centres
For server connectivity in a converged data center, HP unveiled a FibreChannel-over-Ethernet module for its A5820 data center switch, which …
HP consolidates, protects data centres
For server connectivity in a converged data center, HP unveiled a FibreChannel-over-Ethernet module for its A5820 data center switch, which …
Security lesson
Education has, at its core, a belief that information is meant to be shared and learned. And this is exactly …