The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted, when questioned about the …
VMware unveils VMware vSphere5 and comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite
VMware CEO Paul Maritz unveiled VMware vSphere 5 and a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies built to help customers …
Asia Pacific traders prefer open source: Red Hat
Some of the busiest stock exchanges in the region have shown a preference for open source software as indicated by …
VMware leading virtualisation market: V-Index survey
VMware is the primary hypervisor for 58% of organisations that use x86 virtualisation software, with Citrix and Microsoft’s Hyper-V splitting …
Avaya introduces contact centre tools to enhance customer service
Avaya, a provider of business communications and collaboration solutions and services, today announced new contact centre products that address the …
Companies ‘wasting millions’ with bad file management
Enterprises are estimated to be paying an average of $2.1 million (£1.3 million) a year as a result of inefficient …
Searching for the game changer
As organisations develop their operations to meet customer demands, managing the growth of physical assets is commonplace. Today, however, the …
Microsoft Office 365 goes live
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the much-awaited Office 365 yesterday, after a beta program of about nine months, as the …
Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage again
Microsoft’s BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage yesterday, the latest in a string of technical problems in …
CFOs lack faith in CIOs, survey shows
Increasingly, it’s the chief financial officer (CFO) who has direct oversight of the IT department and IT-related spending, but it …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
Storm that cometh
Virtualisation and cloud technologies are storming their way into enterprise infrastructure deployments. But, what happens to networks and their management, …
Huawei unveils latest tablet running Android 3.2
Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei unveiled a 7-inch tablet, called the MediaPad, running version 3.2 of Google’s Android mobile OS …
Starbucks using smartphone barcode system for payment
Starbucks said this week it has seen plenty of customers interested in using smartphones to pay for their coffee. The …
PCI Council releases guidelines on compliance in VMs
Enterprises got some much needed clarification on the implementation of PCI requirements in virtualised environments recently. The PCI Security Standards …
Fluke Networks rolls out OptiView XG Tablet
Fluke Networks has introduced the OptiView XG, a network analysis tablet that provides the fastest1 solutions for network and application problems …
Driving innovation
With more organisations making the transition to virtual computing it is time to understand the basis for successful implementation of …
Motorola launches Xoom in the region
Motorola Mobility has become the latest player in the Middle East’s tablet market with its new tablet, Motorola Xoom. “Motorola …
One billion smartphones to ship in 2015: IDC
Nearly 1 billion smartphones will be shipped globally in 2015, almost double the amount for all of 2011, as millions …
Nokia not ready for a tablet — yet
f cell phone maker Nokia rolls out a tablet device one day, it will be late to a game where …