“Last year was a challenging environment,” Balall Yaqub says with some understatement. As group CEO of Emitac, he takes a …
Silo state
It is here. Information explosion and excess data are realities that we as individuals, and as members of larger organisations, have …
Doorstep delivery
SaaS is riding the wave of cloud computing and is increasing in popularity among Middle East enterprises. However, …
Made for the Middle East
Technology vendors never miss a chance to state that the Middle East market is a very crucial one for them. …
Mission: Obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Formed in 1995, the Doha-based Foundation is dedicated to building human capital …
Smartly mobile
Over the past few years smartphones have moved beyond the briefcases and boardrooms of the corporate world into the back …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Samsung to push MPS
The initiative which is part of the global MPS offering from Samsung was unveiled in the Middle East region recently. …
Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco
The company is in the midst of digesting and integrating Nortel's enterprise division, which it bought last year for $900 …
Brocade, McAfee in JV channel enablement programmes
The two vendors have developed a series of jointly designed, end-to-end network security solutions with advanced functionality, including fully automated …
Unmasking DLP
If you have been following the security technologies landscape, chances are that you have already heard of Data Loss Prevention. …
Optimising oil exploration
By incorporating flash memory as intelligent cache in its unified storage systems, NetApp helps customers optimize performance without adding complexity, …
Forrester: 2010 IT spending still looks strong
Despite fears caused by the European debt crisis, spending on technology products and services is set to continue growing around …
Technology challenges in Oil & Gas
These factors are placing exploration and production (E&P) asset teams under pressure to more precisely characterise prospects and existing dormant …
Streamlined data management
In both exploration and enhanced recovery, massive amounts of data are critical to the decision-making processes that lead to explorative …
Enabling business breakthroughs
In Australia, Karoon Gas found that as its business requirements grew, access to various data sets from different locations slowed …
Dell to acquire storage vendor Ocarina Networks
Dell announced Monday that it plans to acquire Ocarina Networks, a maker of hardware and software designed to reduce the …
Xerox software for ColorQube 9200 series
The Web-based software called Xerox Print Advisor uses on-screen prompts to alert users to simple actions they can take to …
Aptec signs distribution deal with Applied Security
In terms of the agreement, Aptec will distribute the vendor’s solutions in the whole of Middle East, North Africa, Turkey …
Symantec completes acquisition of PGP, GuardianEdge
These acquisitions extend Symantec’s ability to help customers secure and manage their most critical information. By bringing together PGP and …