The growing need for companies to manage surging volumes of structured and unstructured data is continuing to propel enterprise use …
MEA region strategic to growth: EMC
EMC describes itself as a “global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information …
CA Technologies updates cloud stack with management tools
CA Technologies has updated a number of its programs to make their users more ready to run some operations in …
Dubai Financial Market leverages power of the cloud
Dubai Financial Market (DFM) has harnessed the power of Microsoft Windows Azure to host a visually compelling, streamlined and innovative …
New initiative aims to certify open clouds
After forming in 2009 and stalling a couple of times since, the Open Cloud Initiative formally launched yesterday in an …
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 …
“Anonymous” arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says
The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of 14 individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous …
Banking on Sage
Fernand Rasetti, COO, Sage, a software development company serving the global financial industry in streamlining processes for core banking operations, …
Kootol Software sues Apple, Google among others
Another patent-holding company has set its sights on Apple and numerous other large companies, and even smaller developers like The …
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 …
Speaking in code
Most of the time, what we coin as new technologies are just standard improvements on older versions in the steady …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
Google Chromebooks ready for pre-order
Google Chromebooks can now to be pre-ordered at Amazon.com and BestBuy. Google made the announcement on Twitter, saying that Chromebooks …
Jobs unveils free iCloud sync, storage service
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today took the stage at his company’s annual developers conference to tout the new iOS 5, …
When the cloud evaporates
Over the past year, four cloud storage service providers have said they’re shutting down and Amazon’s cloud services have been …
New ‘Mango’ Windows Phone version integrates apps
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled many new features to its Windows Phone software but it left out a few that some …
Industry agrees on vulnerability reporting format
Three years after its founding, the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) is starting to bear …
Apple topples Google as top brand, says report
Apple has topped Google as the most valuable brand in the world, according to a study released over the weekend …
VMware’s Cloud Foundry suffers second outage
VMware’s attempt to recover from an outage in its brand-new cloud computing service inadvertently caused a second outage the next …
Red Hat pitches new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …