Brocade today announced innovative new cloud-optimised networking solutions to enable the next evolution in public cloud infrastructures. These advancements will …
Half way to the cloud
A CNME-Citrix CIO roundtable in Kuwait reveals that the local market fears that virtualisation and cloud computing may have to …
Samsung hits back at Apple lawsuits
Samsung Electronics has hit back at Apple with lawsuits in three countries alleging infringement of patents on smartphone technologies. Last …
End-users discuss IT management and decentralisation
“Organisations need to establish benchmarking techniques that track and facilitate maintenance processes across assets, inventory and other resources and the …
Tablets challenge mobile cost management
With tablets invading the enterprise, IT departments are facing new challenges around controlling mobile connectivity expenses. “These tablets now have …
EBay to acquire GSI Commerce
EBay has agreed to acquire for about US$2.4 billion GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and …
Oracle customers using Itanium chips rethink IT upgrades
Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said …
Regional CIOs pick networking and security as top investment priorities
By Sathya Mithra Ashok Networking infrastructure remained the top major technology stack that end-users will be looking for from across …
Shrinking data centre
Four forces operating in the market today could result in data center space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the …
Gunning for data centre control
F5 is described as an application delivery vendor, but that term is nebulous to some folks and it doesn’t really …
A word of advice
In the last month, separate CIO events were conducted in Dubai by two of the largest IT analyst groups in …
Regional CIO study reveals need for IT innovation focus
Organisations across EMEA agree on the need to refocus IT budgets toward IT innovation in order to improve business performance, …
Juniper launches security solutions for the cloud
Juniper Networks has announced the integration of its new Juniper Networks vGW Virtual Gateway with the Juniper Networks SRX Series …
Social networks credited with role in toppling Egypt’s Mubarak
As Egypt’s embattled President Hosni Mubarak gave up his presidency Friday, analysts and some of the Egyptian protestors said he’d …
Nokia-Microsoft: is this the path to success or continued failure?
The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership announced yesterday in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like …
Microsoft Windows revenues plunge 30%
Revenues from Windows plummeted 30% last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said yesterday. But in …
Networking to become cheaper in 2011: IDC
IDC analyst Jamie Jin said virtualisation will be a major trend across the sector, with the cost of networking for …
Banks may soon require new online authentication
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) could soon release new guidelines for banks to use when authenticating users to …
Tablets to put pressure on networks
Ovum's Tim Renowden and Nicole McCormick have noted the increased usage of iPads and other tablet devices is putting pressure …
IDC: Tablets, weak spending hurt PC shipments in Q4
Worldwide PC shipments were slower than expected during the fourth quarter of 2010, hurt by competition from tablets and a …