IBM has announced a new network security appliance to help deal with increasing threats posed by social media sites and malicious websites. …
Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack
Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into …
Microsoft completes Windows 8, ships to manufacturers
Microsoft announced yesterday that it has completed the development and testing of Windows 8, a major upgrade of its OS for …
Gulf Business Machines to offer IBM PureSystems Technology Demonstrator
Gulf Business Machines (GBM), a prominent IT solutions provider, recently announced the launch of the first IBM PureSystems technology demonstrator …
Playing catch-up
As infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models gain popularity in the U.S. and Western Europe, adoption amongst Middle East enterprises remains low. …
Microsoft debuts Hotmail replacement Outlook.com
Microsoft yesterday previewed a new webmail service called Outlook.com that will soon replace Hotmail. The company hopes that new features …
IBM attempts to redefine the IPS
IBM yesterday introduced what it’s calling a “next generation” intrusion-prevention system (IPS), an offering that not only is designed to …
Lenovo and EMC join forces, target Chinese storage market
Lenovo and EMC will team up to develop and sell server and storage technology, with an eye to the Chinese …
Securing wireless networks
When it comes to ensuring 24/7 security and compliance monitoring of corporate Wi-Fi networks, straightforward business economics demands the need …
HP unveils all-SSD option for 3PAR storage array
Hewlett-Packard is extending its 3PAR enterprise storage offerings with an all-SSD version of the P10000 array. The all-SSD (solid-state disk) …
Intel employees prefer to choose their own devices
The vast majority of employees would rather choose their own enterprise device than bring their own device to work, according …
Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a …
The good, bad and ugly
Vendors and law enforcement agencies are cracking down on counterfeit and grey market operations, yet these operations continue to witness explosive growth across developing nations.
Steady direction
Logicom Dubai has experienced exponential growth since its inception.
Women of the channel- The learner
Khan made the transition to the IT sector from Citibank where she worked as a relationship manager. More than a …
New tools can crack PPTP encryption in under a day
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any …
Huawei records $16bn sales revenue in H1
Huawei recorded sales revenue of $16.16 billion in the first half of 2012, a 5.1% increase over the first half …
Apple to spend $356 million on security company
In a deal that should help Apple boost its enterprise security offerings, the iPhone maker is planning to buy mobile …
Riverbed, Juniper enter technology-sharing partnership
A new technology partnership between Riverbed and Juniper will see the latter license Riverbed’s application delivery controller for use in …
Oracle aims to poach SQL Server users with migration tool
Oracle is going after users of Microsoft’s SQL Server with a new tool for migrating data from SQL Server to …