Google’s head of Android, Andy Rubin, is reportedly stepping aside, which could mean big changes for the mobile platform as …
StorIT offers pre-built data centre bundles
StorIT on Tuesday introduced the concept of pre-built data centre solution bundles, which the distributor claims, are ideal for resellers …
MEA external storage market in decline – IDC
According to the latest figures from IDC, the MEA region’s external storage market suffered a year-on-year decline in the last …
Redington Value to distribute VMware in Africa
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, has been appointed as a VMware distributor in WECA, marking a …
Gartner – 2013 the year of big data
This year will see a much larger scale adoption of big data technologies, according to Gartner. The analyst firm recently …
STC inaugurates Security Operations Centre
Saudi Arabian STC this week inaugurated what it calls the largest information security control centre in the region to improve …
With flying colours
When Patrick Naef, Emirates Group’s CIO, joined seven years ago, the team had just begun rolling out its Knowledge Driven …
Telepresence of mind for ROI
The most important question on the mind of every CIO when pitching a project to senior management revolves entirely around …
The big fuss over big data
There is no denying the hype that has surrounded big data over the past few years. Big data is set …
State of flux
The sixth edition of IDC’s Middle East CIO Summit had a strong sense of urgency to it. From the nature …
Whitman dismisses HP break-up claims
In an effort to assure concerned users and investors that it is working to put past distractions aside, struggling Hewlett-Packard …
AccessData: Region not equipped for cybercrime
According to AccessData Group, the Middle East is fast becoming a prime target for cyber criminals, mostly because so many …
Reaching for the cloud
Despite a very challenging political and economic milieu in the region, the home networking major D-Link has grown at a …
New kid on the block
Qais Gharaibeh, UAE Managing Director, SAP MENA
Cautious optimism
Amid a declining global PC market, Lenovo seems incredibly upbeat about its regional prospects. Perhaps that has something to do …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
AWS provides easy entry to SAP HANA
It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features …
ARIS 9.0 launched at CeBit
Software AG last week announced the availability of ARIS 9.0 at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The vendor …
Virtually unstoppable – VMware: We’re miles ahead
“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 …