Difficulties have arisen this year in the area of intrusion prevention systems (IPS). Vendors have struggled to recast their appliances …
Public cloud saved FarmVille, but private cloud saved us money, says Zynga CTO
Allan Leinwand, CTO of infrastructure at social gaming giant Zynga, has revealed how the company’s deployment of public cloud saved the …
VMware ups its collaboration offering with Lithium integration
VMware has announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external …
Gartner says half of enterprises are wasting money on social media
Getting a positive return on investment from a social media campaign is about more than tracking the number of your …
Microsoft to retire Windows Live brand ahead of Windows 8 launch
Microsoft will retire the Windows Live brand as it gets ready to release what it describes as a more connected …
Video for the enterprise
Much has been spoken of the benefits of using Facebook and Twitter for a company to reap the rewards of …
Sony set to roll out VAIO E14 Series across the region
Sony, the consumer electronics brand, today announced that the new VAIO E14 Series, a 14-inch notebook with stylish new ‘wrap …
Taptu update adds news synchronisation across devices
Taptu has tried to carve out a space for itself in the world of mobile news aggregators by compiling news feeds and …
Barracuda Networks signs Redington Value to accelerate distribution in ME
Barracuda Networks has signed up distribution partner Redington Value, the value added distribution division of Redington Gulf to help take …
Salesforce.com hypes social enterprise at cloud conference
Salesforce.com is touting social enterprise as the next major evolution in business computing and focussed on its emergence at its …
A delicate balance
With the rise in the influence of social media on the business, it’s time for CMOs to get better acquainted …
Infor aims at global ERP deployments with new Local.ly platform
Infor is planning to release a new platform called Local.ly that will allow customers of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) …
Venture capital poured into enterprise software in Q1
The buttoned-down IT industry outshone flashy consumer internet startups at raising money in the first quarter, logging a big increase …
RIM launches in India low-cost phone for emerging markets
Research In Motion will start selling in India from today a low-cost smartphone with the BlackBerry 7 OS that will …
Appcelerator’s development tool Titanium now comes with cloud services
Appcelerator has announced version 2.0 of its cross-platform mobile development platform Titanium, which includes integrated cloud services that will make …
Google CEO ‘worried’ about the future of the internet
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed his concern that the freedom of the internet is under constant threat by governments, …
Twitter acquires social media analytics team
Twitter has acquired the team at social media analytics company Hotspots.io, signalling its intent to go after the big data …
Local YouTube advertising to launch in the UAE
YouTube will next week launch the first advertising aspect on YouTube in the region to allow advertisers to engage with …
Big data is for everyone, not just large enterprises, says Oracle
Companies should not make the careless mistake of assuming they do not have big data out there to take advantage …
The future of big data is in the cloud: Oracle
The future of big data as something that any company can capitalise on is as a cloud service, says Andrew …