According to a recent research conducted by Morgan Stanley, 68% of respondents regularly used their tablets to browse the internet. …
Worldwide SaaS revenue to reach $12.1bn in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is on pace to reach $12.1 billion in 2011, a 20.7% increase from …
Oracle sets new world-record on SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark
Oracle today announced a new world-record result on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel (SD-Parallel) standard application benchmark running the SAP …
Cisco comes out swinging after cutbacks
Cisco Systems emerged from 150 days of restructuring yesterday as an aggressive competitor, laying out some of the problems that …
App stores should cooperate to improve smartphone security
App store vendors need to collaborate more closely to keep smartphone users safe, including putting together a system for grading …
Sophos to showcase integrated security solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2011
As more companies in the Middle East move towards consolidating their IT security requirements into one integrated solution, global IT …
IBM’s Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients
Watson, IBM’s game-show playing supercomputer, will soon try its hand at assisting physicians in the WellPoint health care plan in …
Nominations pour in for CNME’s ICT Achievement Awards 2011
ICT Achievement Awards 2011, which honours the most credible ICT deployments and IT teams in the region, has received hundreds …
IBM’s futuristic storage aims for speed, density
IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, …
Asiacell accelerates business transformation
Asiacell, the first and largest Iraqi telecommunications company and the first mobile telecom company to provide coverage for all of …
Bridging gaps
Bahman Enterprises Group achieves reliable connectivity across multiple offices with a Fortinet solution. Bahman Enterprises Group, an established powerhouse in …
On the air
In an industry synonymous with information sharing, media and broadcasting organisations in the region are investing in technology to manage, …
Allied Telesis and Saudi Trans Telecoms collaborate to optimise the value of KSA’s ICT sector
Allied Telesis, a provider of secure IP/Ethernet network solutions and an industry leader in the deployment of converged triple-play networks, …
Asiacell selects HP Service Management Software for greater efficiency
HP today announced that Asiacell, the Iraqi telecommunications company and the first mobile telecom company to provide coverage for all …
RSA adds blacklist data feeds and threat monitoring to it’s CyberCrime Intelligence Service
RSA, The Security Division of EMC announced significant updates to its RSA CyberCrime Intelligence Service designed to help enterprises monitor …
Google apologises for Docs outage
A software upgrade that went wrong caused parts of the Google Docs cloud-hosted office productivity suite to go offline for …
Businesses lining up cloud computing but not yet migrating: Survey
Over half of firms in a survey have said their top priority around cloud computing is “readiness”, rather than full …
Hitachi Data Systems buys NAS-vendor BlueArc
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today acquired high-end network-attached storage (NAS) vendor BlueArc in an all-cash deal, the company said. HDS …
IBM envisions futuristic storage needs
IBM is working on both super-fast and super-dense storage media that should reach enterprises before the end of this decade, …
Grasping governance
In recent years, the concept of IT governance has garnered much interest due to the integral role IT plays in …