Josef Miskulnig worked in IBM from 1977 to 1996. In 1997 he decided to set up Fast Lane as both …
Trend Micro revamps partner programme
Trend Micro has announced an aggressive new partner programme focused on rewarding proactive partners, driving new business, customer retention, while …
Nominations open for Network World Middle East 2012 Awards
Network World Middle East is seeking nominations for its 2012 innovation awards. Into its third year, Network World Middle East …
Consumerisation creates management blind spots: survey
As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it’s getting harder …
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to …
NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices
NetApp this week announced to customers that beginning Feb. 6, it will be raising the price of hard disk drives …
Intel bets big on ultrabooks
Intel will get a strong indication at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show whether its decision to bet heavily on ultrabooks …
Extreme Networks prepares to ship ‘world’s fastest Ethernet switch’
Extreme Networks’ latest switch, the BlackDiamond X8, billed as the “fastest Ethernet switch in the world”, went on general release …
Data appliance for SMEs
SAS and EMC Greenplum come together in the region to launch a power packed data management solution for SMEs In …
Interactive Intelligence signs agreement with Alnafitha, Malaz Technology for Saudi Arabia
Interactive Intelligence, a global vendor of unified IP business communications solutions, has signed a reseller agreement with Alnafitha …
HDD washout in Thailand
October?s flooding of Thailand has knocked out close to half of the global hard disk manufacturing base. Normalcy will take …
Huawei acquires Symantec stake in Huawei Symantec
Huawei and Symantec have announced an agreement where Huawei will acquire Symantec’s 49% stake in Huawei Symantec Technologies for US$ …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …
Qtel launches high capacity network solution
Qtel Business Solutions (QBS) today launched an innovative new network solution that that will allow customers with high bandwidth requirements …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …
Al Hilal Bank deploys digital pen technology
Al Hilal Bank, a progressive Islamic bank, is using state-of-the-art digital pens developed in the UK to revolutionise its document-based …
Qtel launches high capacity networking product
Qtel Business Solutions (QBS) today launched an innovative network solution that will allow customers with high bandwidth requirements to aggregate …
Big and growing
There is no easy way to say this. Ask a few people about what big data stands for, and you …
Brick-by-brick
Every once in a while, there comes an organisation that challenges the way other organisations have been dealing with strapped …
Mozilla persuades Firefox 3.6 users to dump old browser
Mozilla’s upgrade call last month pushed more Firefox 3.6 users to grab a newer edition than any month since June …