“IBM has embraced — nearly — the growing bring your own device (BYOD) trend of allowing employees to buy and …
LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce
Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI today announced it will acquire SandForce, a maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class and consumer …
Forrester to CIOs: End the Mac Prohibition
Forrester analyst David Johnson likes to compare Macs in the enterprise with the heady days of the Prohibition Act of …
Spinning off PC group would have cost billions: HP
Spinning off its PC unit would have been too costly for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and that was one of the reasons …
RIM delays BlackBerry tablet OS to February 2012
Last week at its BlackBerry DevCon conference, RIM tried to excite developers about the forthcoming PlayBook OS 2.0 mobile operating …
Oracle ‘catching on to cloud importance’ with £940m RightNow acquisition
Oracle is catching on to the importance of cloud computing with its $1.5 billion (£941 million) acquisition of RightNow Technologies, …
Citrix expands on BYOD message at Citrix Synergy 2011
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 …