The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cyber security instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing …
IBM closes $1.3B Kenexa acquisition
IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based …
EMC’s Project X may have wide impact on data centres
EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centres and is developing software to tie all those components …
HP reveals new information optimisation solutions
HP today announced new and enhanced information optimisation solutions that help enterprises manage, understand and act upon the variety, velocity …
AMD targeting cloud with new Opteron processors
To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for …
Driven to succeed
Waleed Al-Basheer, Intelligent Network Solutions Manager at GBM
Condo Protego ups the ante
Condo Protego, a value-added reseller focused on storage and data protection, is riding on the crest of the growth wave …
A mobile future
It has been an eventful year in the solutions world as enterprises witnessed the rise of managed services, mobility and …
Gaining momentum
The IT landscape is ever evolving as the divide between traditional business and personal consumption continues to narrow. At its …
3 steps HP should take to turn itself around
Generally, fixing any complex problem comes down to three steps: breaking the problem down into components, conducting triage and deciding …
Security without compromising performance
IT managers in corporate and mid-size businesses have to balance both network performance and network security concerns. While security requirements …
Businesses to increase SaaS spending over next two years
Nearly three quarters of enterprises in Europe are planning to increase spending on software-as-a-service (SaaS) over the next two years, …
Analyst and SAP tied up in software discount row
SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, claiming that a handful of …
Commscope boasts bold, new strategy during product launch
Commscope has announced the release of a new infrastructure management solution, coinciding with a bold, new strategy during its Middle …
Fedora 18 finally makes beta
After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date …
Red Hat rolls out private PaaS
Red Hat officially jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market yesterday. Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application …
Alcatel-Lucent enters crowding SDN field
Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability …
A forgotten cause
Dr Sassan Dieter Khatib-Shahidi, CEO, German Imaging Technologies (GIT) Dubai LLC, says the Middle East IT industry is not doing …
Security worries hinder cloud adoption in Gulf
Concerns over data security is the top factor delaying the widespread adoption of cloud-based services, according to a new survey …
Dual-identity smartphones to bridge BYOD private, corporate divide
Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an …