SAP’s co-CEO, Jim Hagemann Snabe, has responded to analyst Forrester’s criticisms following the launch of HANA enterprise cloud, claiming that …
Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales
Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the …
Cisco cites data centre, wireless for quarterly revenue increase
Data centre and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending …
SAP attracts new customers with Suite on HANA – but not Oracle’s
SAP’s announcement earlier this year that it is making its widely used Business Suite applications available on its in-memory database …
SAP’s co-founder addresses the myths of HANA
Dr. Hasso Plattner, Chairman of Supervisory Board, SAP, blasted Internet myths surrounding the capabilities and availability of its HANA technology …
Google rolls out by-the-minute cloud billing, introduces a new NoSQL database
Google, attempting to build its reputation as an enterprise and developer-focused cloud computing provider, today said its cloud platform is …
Taming printer chaos
As more regional enterprises look for ways to reduce costs and move from a Capex to Opex model, many are looking at managed print services as a way to tame largely undocumented and unpredictable annual printing costs. It is estimated that managed print services can reduce printing costs by as much as 30 percent. It provides a flexible way for organisations to procure printing hardware, supplies, service and support in one bundled contract.
Striving for excellence
Mohammed Zameer, General Manager, Al Rostamani Communications
Nokia unveils Lumia 925
Nokia on Tuesday released a new interpretation of its flagship Lumia 920 in the form of the Lumia 925, a …
BlackBerry Live: How BES 10.1 scores over BES 10.
The Enterprise Update session of BlackBerry Live gave the participants a chance to know in detail how the BlackBerry Enterprise …
SAP launches Afaria mobile management in the cloud
From today, SAP is offering its Afaria mobile management solution in the cloud, hosted on Amazon AWS, for only €1 …
BlackBerry unveils low-cost Q5 smartphone aimed at emerging markets
It’s an art to begin a presentation with a bang – and Thorsten Heins, CEO, BlackBerry seemed to have mastered …
‘Smart, speed, secure’ – SAP delivers opening Sapphire message
Co-CEO Bill McDermott raised the roof of the Orange County Convention Center in Florida today during the opening keynote of …
Interactive Intelligence partners with Kuwait-based FutureTech
Interactive Intelligence on Monday announced that it has partnered with Kuwait-based FutureTech, which will now promote and distribute its range …
StarLink named Guidance Software’s master distributor
StarLink on Tuesday announced that it had been signed as master distributor for Guidance Software in the Middle East. The …
Embrace mobility or be left behind, says SAP
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s business leaders need to embrace enterprise mobility, or they risk suffering rapid …
Linux code is the ‘benchmark of quality’, study concludes
Fans of free and open-source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open-source code typically has fewer defects per …
Four more years
Even the best storage products must eventually be retired – a fact that many belt-tightening CIOs are at pains to …
Learning the ropes
At its Universe event in Copenhagen, Teradata unveiled a new approach to big data which allows organisations to embrace the …
The big issue
As CNME prepares to host the Middle East’s first event entirely focused on big data, it delves head first into …