In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organisations have made it a high priority to develop and implement …
Information Builders gives its BI platform more cloud-like capabilities
Information Builders has added a range of improvements to its WebFocus BI (business intelligence) platform that will make it more …
Amazon expands cloud-based live streaming functionality
Amazon has added the ability for CloudFront to stream live content to Apple iOS devices and Microsoft Silverlight clients, the …
Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology
Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualisation offerings, …
BYOD Troubleshoot: Security and Cost-Savings
A few months ago, a Hungarian man got a hold of a business executive’s personal mobile device containing corporate customer …
Do insecure open source components threaten your apps?
Since Apache Maven, the brainchild of Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl, emerged as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in …
New iPad vs. iPad 2: Which is the better deal?
Everybody’s raved about the new iPad’s display and gauged its graphics prowess in benchmark testing. But it’s not the only iPad in …
Legal team of man who claims to own half of Facebook to present in court
Facebook is seemingly on top of the world as it continues to bring in ad revenue and prepares to go …
Patent shows Apple plans for cloud-based language translation on iPhone
A patent filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office last spring shows that Apple is planning to equip …
Red Hat: beware of cloud ‘open-washing’
Open source software company Red Hat believes that companies like VMware and Microsoft are skewing the definition of open cloud …
Dell expands virtual desktops into the cloud
Dell said this week it is expanding its virtual desktop offerings into the cloud through a partnership with another company. …
SuccessFactors offers free version of Jam software in hit against Salesforce.com
SAP’s SuccessFactors subsidiary is rolling out a version of its Jam social collaboration platform at no charge to all users, …
Box unveils cloud service for workplace mobile apps
Box, a provider of cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software, will announce on Wednesday a new service designed to …
Lenovo debuts App Shop for larger businesses
Lenovo announced an enterprise-focused app storefront for tablets running Android 3.1 or higher. The Lenovo Enterprise App Shop offers larger …
Honouring innovation
The recipients of the Network World Middle East’s 3rd annual awards were announced at a gala ceremony in Dubai last …
Filling the gaps
The noticeable gap between the IT skills needed and those that are currently available in the market got Pallavi Sharma …
Global SaaS spending to rise 17.9% to $14.5 billion: Gartner
Global spending on SaaS (software-as-a-service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to $14.5 billion, according to figures released yesterday by …
Internet contributed SAR37 billion to Saudi economy in 2010: report
The Saudi internet economy contributed SAR37 billion to the overall Saudi economy in 2010, representing 2.2% of GDP and putting …
HP’s server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck
Hewlett-Packard (HP) says it will address the I/O bottleneck created by internal and external storage in its next generation of …
Logitech targets small workgroups with HD video conferencing unit
Logitech hopes to address changes in enterprise teamwork with a high-definition video conferencing unit designed for ad-hoc collaboration among small …