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 …
Dell sells preconfigured Hadoop system
Recognising Apache Hadoop’s growing presence in the field of data analysis, Dell will start selling servers preloaded with the open-source …
Capital scope
When it comes to embracing cutting edge technology to enhance business processes, beat the competitor and please the customer, the …
SAP offers premium support option in China
SAP is now offering its high-end MaxAttention support service to customers in China in response to increasing demand there for …
Java 8 gears up for the cloud
Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) …
Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine to reach virtualised servers
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to US$95 million to extend its on-server cache …
VMware backpedals on price changes after customer criticism
After criticism over new restrictions on the amount of virtual memory customers can deploy before having to buy new licenses, …
SAP will issue patch for NetWeaver vulnerability
A reportedly serious security bug affecting the J2EE (Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition) engine in SAP’s NetWeaver middleware will be …