It is incredible how connected our lives are today. Increasingly sophisticated wireless devices are becoming common every day tools leading …
Explaining standards
The government of Abu Dhabi has realised their increased dependence on information and information processing systems and therewith the importance …
Asset management firm chooses SAP
Dubai-based asset management company wasl today announced the successful implementation of a suite of SAP software solutions to ensure efficiency, …
RIM launches smartphone management for small businesses
Research In Motion (RIM) launched a free online service for small businesses to help them centrally manage BlackBerry smartphones in …
HP offers integrated management for IT services
In what the company describes as a premium service, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is offering to help the world’s largest organisations impose …
U.K government to shut down social media if riots resume
Scrambling to deter future violent rioting, the U.K. government is considering shutting down social networks such as Twitter and Facebook …
ComGuard partner AirTight gets Gartner positive
ComGuard, a value added distributor for IT security solutions in the Middle East region announced that Gartner has rated AirTight …
Sage releases Peachtree suite
Sage Software, global supplier of ERP, CRM and HRM solutions to medium and large organisations, has announced launch of Sage …
OpenLogic to launch tool to build open source software support
Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of …
Cloud use greatly outpaces understanding: NPD
Despite huge investments in advertising on TV and on billboards– particularly in airports– survey after survey shows that when it …
Citrix buys VDI personalisation vendor
Citrix has acquired RingCube, a vendor of software for personalising desktops within virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), the companies announced. Financial …
CIOs must embrace mobility or be swept aside: IDC
CIOs in the Asia Pacific face being “swept aside” if they ignore mobility as an issue in the enterprise, IDC …
Private clouds: Storage architectures are key to maximising efficiencies
Today, enterprises across the world are crafting cloud strategies and starting to invest in private clouds to take advantage of …
MEA region to be driven by new domains and verticals: MSAT
Mahindra Satyam, a global consulting and IT services provider, today announced the first quarter financial results for the year and …
Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server, data warehouse
Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing …
Companies lose millions from missing memory sticks, states study
While data breaches by hackers get headlines, another form of data leakage can be very damaging to a company’s bottom …
Visa pushes merchants to adopt chip-based payments
Visa today announced plans that will let qualifying merchants in the U.S. eliminate the need to annually validate their compliance …
Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server
Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing …
African development hubs focus on mobile apps
Increased support of innovation hubs, availability of Web-based public data and increasing adoption of mobile phones have focused the attention …
Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software
Symantec has announced its next-generation email and content archiving software, Enterprise Vault 10 , which now purports to automatically classify email …