Most outsourcing analysts and consultants will tell you that the future of the traditional IT services industry is uncertain. Arjun …

Slick Support
In the UAE, Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) does not require an introduction. One of those rare organisations that touch …

Intel to acquire Infineon's wireless division
ntel will acquire Infineon Technologies' wireless division for US$1.4 billion, the company said Monday. The acquisition of Infineon's wireless division …

Al Otaiba launches Sitecom MD-500
Sitecom MD-500 Digital Media Set can safely store digital photos, music and movies on a central location and share this …

Molding the Future
In the world of enterprise software, there are but a handful of “rock star” analysts who cover the industry well, …

Package Deal
Q: Is there any particular reason for your visit to the Middle East now? A: I am in town …

Packard Bell debuts in Lebanon
Jean Haddad, GM and chairman, TeleTrade Holding Group, said the group is proud to have Distinet as the first distributor …

Overpowering Pirates
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 …