“It’s nice to have competition,” says the senior director of VMware’s pre-sales division, Herve Renault. He sits in Grosvenor House …
Westcon named Motorola distributor of the year
Westcon Group was last week named Motorola Solutions’ EMEA Distributor of the Year 2012 at the vendor’s 2013 Executive Partner …
Beating the big data blues
Henrik Pederson, Senior Technical Account Manager, CommVault Systems, explains how an integrated data management strategy can help to manage big …
Huawei earns SAP HANA certification
Huawei’s enterprise division is ramping up its European presence, following an announcement last week that SAP has certified the company’s …
SAP expands insurance software portfolio with Camilion
SAP has announced that it is expanding its array of software products for the insurance industry, having agreed an acquisition …
EES named top HP software partner
Emitac Enterprise Solutions (EES) was awarded the “Top Software MEMA Partner of the Year” award at the HP Global Partner …
Pirate software market costs business $114bn, MEA market among largest
Pirated software is costing industry in excess of $114 billion, according to a new IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. Though …
US comes up short on security experts
According to a pair of recently released reports, demand for information security experts in the United States is outstripping the …
Rimini Street growth spooks Oracle, SAP
Rimini Street, a third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, posted impressive growth results in the EMEA region during …
Getting social with Infostreams
Over the past year, it’s been impossible to ignore what research firms IDC and Gartner describe as the four forces …
HP announces extended converged infrastructure innovations
HP today announced new innovations aiming to strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in …
Middle East IT spending to reach $192.9bn in 2013: Gartner
Middle East IT spending is projected to total $192.9 billion in 2013, a 5.5 percent increase from 2012, according to …
CRM is top priority for IT spending in 2013-14, says Gartner
CRM (customer relationship management) software will be the top priority for additional spending on enterprise applications around the world this …
Every downtime hour costs US$325,000, according to report
Every hour of downtime costs an enterprise US$324,793, according to the annual Virtualization Data Protection Report by Veeam Software. The …
SAP brings focus to Ariba at CeBit
After 12 successive quarters of double-digit growth at SAP, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has pinned his future hopes on the …
Fujitsu launches new Lifebook E Line laptops
Fujitsu promises that its Lifebook E Line laptops will use all the same standard components, including the main board, drives …
No jeopardy for Watson
Following IBM’s February announcement that Watson – its groundbreaking artificial intelligence computer system – will carry out its first commercial …
Eye of the storm
Experts recently pointed towards security as the main obstacle for adoption of all cloud types and claimed that cloud security …
30 years of PCWorld, 30 pivotal moments in PC history
Talk about longevity. Thirty years ago to this month, PCWorld published its very first print issue, a 310-page magazine loaded …
Software AG unveils in-memory webMethods 9.0
Software AG said on Monday that the new Version 9.0 of its webMethods server suite will bring in-memory capabilities to …