Gartner on Sunday predicted that the MENA public cloud services market will generate $462.3 million in revenue during 2013, marking …
Dell unveils pricing tool for partners
Dell on Sunday unveiled a new tool to improve its Online Solutions Configurator, PartnerDirect, which now promises to allow partners …
Jabra names Westcon EMEA distributor of the year
Westcon Group on Sunday announced that it had been named EMEA Distributor of the Year for the second year running …
Alcatel-Lucent CEO to step down
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it is hunting for a new CEO, following reports of a fourth-quarter net loss of €1.37 …
Mobile workers to reach 1.3 billion by 2015 – report
According to a new report commissioned by ClickSoftware Technologies, the number of mobile workers across the globe will reach 1.3 …
HP slams Dell over buyout deal
HP has come out fighting. Following the announcement that Dell had finalised its buyout deal, the technology giant criticised its …
SAP users speak out against support price hike
Following SAP’s announcement this week that new customers will soon have to pay more for Standard Support, a number of …
Cloud World Forum quickly attracts delegates
Over 200 delegates have already signed up to join global cloud experts at the third annual Cloud World Forum MENA, …
Bit9 chooses Bridge as distributor
Bridge Systems this week announced that it had been chosen by advanced threat protection vendor Bit9 to be a value-added …
Gartner: IT pros will warm up to OS X
According to Gartner, by the end of next year, Apple laptops and notebooks will be just as accepted by IT …
Microsoft unveils big Africa plans
Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband …
Dell goes private
Following weeks of speculation, Michael Dell has teamed up with investment firm Silver Lake to buy computer maker Dell, in …
Is VMware in trouble?
It would be hard to disagree with the opinion that VMware has had a tough couple of weeks. In the …
Why you don’t need the new Microsoft Office
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Microsoft Office 2013 has arrived. So has Microsoft Office 365. Some would argue that the …
Sophos unveils Mobile Control 3.0
Sophos on Tuesday unveiled Mobile Control 3.0, the latest version of its MDM (mobile device management) product for Android-based tablets …
Red Hat joins HP alliance programme
Following on from more than a decade of collaboration, Red Hat on Tuesday announced that it has joined the HP …
Oracle to buy Acme Packet
Oracle announced on Monday that it has agreed to pay $1.7 billion for Acme Packet, a network equipment vendor that …
SAP raises Standard Support fees
SAP on Monday announced that it is planning to impose a higher price on its Standard Support software maintenance services. …
Computerlinks named Sophos distributor
Sophos on Monday announced that it has signed Computerlinks as its value added distributor for the Middle East, as part …
HP uses SDN to scale up TippingPoint
HP announced last week that it plans to use its recently unveiled SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention …