The start of Citrix’s Synergy Summit 2011 yesterday in Barcelona, Spain, saw Mark Templeton, CEO of the company, introduce the …
Businesses unable to analyse 90% of their data: IBM
IBM has warned of a major data analysis problem among big businesses, with many unable to interpret over 90% of …
Turning a new leaf
CIOs in the Middle East still struggle to give green ICT investments a business language, and this is hampering the …
Critical connections
KSA’s Jarir Bookstore battled the challenges associated with connecting disparate centres of business by deploying SonicWALL’s NSA Series and building …
EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage
EMC held its user forum last week and used the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualisation and the …
RIM announces BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365
Research In Motion (RIM) announced BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new RIM-hosted online service for …
Cisco plans free telepresence client
Cisco Systems is taking several steps to extend its TelePresence videoconferencing technology beyond enterprise meeting rooms, introducing two endpoints and …
Accenture completes formation of joint venture with Al Faisaliah Group in Middle East
Accenture and Al Faisaliah Group have completed the formation of a joint venture aimed at strengthening their IT capabilities in …
Smartworld collaborates with Mobily to offer desktop management for SMEs
Smartworld, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services provider in the Middle East, announced that it has signed a Channel …
Sophos strengthens technical leadership with cloud security pioneer
Global IT security and data protection firm Sophos today announced the appointment of Gerhard Eschelbeck as CTO and senior VP. …
Oracle buys RightNow for $1.5bn
Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service …
Information management software industry to reach revenues of $37 billion: Ovum
The global information management software market will reach revenues of $37.4 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) …
EMAL fuels giant expansion drive with SAP
Emirates Aluminium Company (EMAL) is set up to increase the efficiency and improve the quality of its production with the …
30% of corporate BlackBerry users want new device: survey
The BlackBerry device and its maker, Research in Motion (RIM), were in serious trouble even before last week’s global service …
Riverbed expands cloud storage ecosystem
Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced an expansion of the ecosystem for the Riverbed Whitewater family of cloud …
VMware appoints new regional director for MENA
VMware, the virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions provider, announced the hiring of Sam Tayan as its new regional director for …
Genpact opens delivery centre in DOZ
Genpact Limited, a global leader in business process and technology management, today announced the opening of its Dubai, United Arab …
Microsoft quarter shows continued growth
Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012 with solid growth, reporting a 7% increase in revenue compared to …
Mobility surges on US campuses; cloud technology lags
Colleges and universities have been aggressive in expanding campus mobility, but slower in shifting key systems to cloud computing, according …
SMB’s more keen on the cloud: IBM
SMBs will deploy cloud services more readily than their larger counterparts, predicted an IBM senior executive at a company event. …