Shipments of solid-state drives (SSDs) jumped more than 66% in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the same period …
BMC eyes Middle East for growth
BMC Software has announced that it is increasing its investments in the company’s Middle East (ME) operations following strong demand …
CNME opens nominations for prestigious CIO 50 Awards
CNME, the premier technology magazine of the Middle East, has announced today that nominations are open for the Middle East …
Big data, security and cloud identified as IT “super themes” in 2012
“Big data” analytics, security and cloud computing will be three of the most significant drivers of technological change in 2012, …
Oracle Q2 net income jumps 17%, but hardware sales slump
Oracle’s net income for the second quarter ended Nov. 30 rose 17% to $2.2 billion, with software sales rising but …
SAP and Google plan to tie cloud based business apps
SAP and Google executives yesterday provided a preview of the companies’ plans to tie their respective cloud-based business applications together, …
Technology for a new year
Gartner has revealed its top predictions for IT organisations and users for 2012 and beyond, and they herald changes in …
Smooth sailing
The transport and logistics industry in the region is making technology investments that span the entire length and breadth of …
Welcome change
It’s that time of the year when one sits down to take a long, hard look at the year gone …
Sophos launches MDM tool to simplify IT consumerisation
IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced Sophos Mobile Control 2.0, the latest version of its award-winning mobile …
IBM buys Emportis for supply software
IBM has signed a deal to buy supply and contract management software vendor Emptoris in another bid to fill out …
Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software
Salesforce.com announced recently it would acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software …
RIM delays new phone launch, takes a hit on tablets
Research In Motion (RIM) said it won’t start selling phones with its new software platform until the “later part” of …
Dell pulls back from netbook market
Dell has confirmed that it has ceased production of its Inspiron Mini netbook computer, in effect ending its pursuit of …
Hard drive manufacturers slash warranty periods
Seagate and Western Digital are cutting back on hard drive warranties, in some instances from five years to one, in …
DEWA chooses GBM to augment server infrastructure
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has selected Gulf Business Machines (GBM) to augment the utility company’s server infrastructure. As …
Poor data replication ‘costing hundreds of thousands’
Each major outage of business-critical data can cost over a million pounds, it is estimated, with data replication failures playing …
Twitter launches TweetDeck as web app
An application near and dear to the heart of Twitter fanatics everywhere, TweetDeck, is now available as a Web application. …
Gartner to CIOs: Weigh on Euro crisis
With the Eurozone crisis threatening to bring the world into another global recession, Gartner is advising CIOs to be on …
Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering
Microsoft and HP, hardly strangers to joint product efforts, are now teaming up to sell cloud services. The two companies …