Copy data management company, Actifio, and dedicated Middle East partner, Spectrami, have launched a Customer Experience Centre in Dubai dedicated to enhancing the customer experience for their wide breadth of partners and users… More pictures inside.
US inventor of DRAM tech honoured with Japan award
A U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM has been honoured with a prestigious Japanese award and a $500,000 prize.
Many companies are negligent about SAP security, researchers say
SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to security researchers.
Safe investment
Quickly expanding strategic investment company, Tawazun, recently teamed up with Huawei in order to commit to its mission to develop the UAE’s defence sector. The company deployed Huawei’s IPv6-based solution across its vast industrial site, as it aims to ensure faster surveillance response times, a stronger technological backbone, and the capabilities for flexibility and expansion.
IBM in new round of lay-offs
IBM has cut about 1,300 employees and more lay-offs are possible, according to an employee organisation. The news comes from …
Cloud-based productivity apps – ‘don’t believe the hype’ says Gartner
Despite the hype, only a tiny proportion of firms have moved towards cloud email or cloud office systems, says analyst …
WWDC: iWork for iCloud highlights productivity suite update
iWork is getting down to business in the cloud. During an announcement-packed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple CEO Tim Cook took …
Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public cloud
Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public …
Reseller celebrates channel champions at Partner Excellence Awards
The channel community came together at Emirates Towers last night for the fourth annual Reseller Partner Excellence Awards, sponsored by Octagon.
Emirates Towers reaches capacity as Reseller launches Partner Excellence Conference
CPI Technology welcomed a heaving crowd inside the Jumeirah Emirates Towers today as it kicked off the 2013 Reseller Partner Excellence Conference and Awards.
The essentiality of optimising networks
Global demand for advanced broadband technology remains strong. In the last two decades, the Internet has become a necessity in …
Apple’s Cook: iOS 7 is the ‘biggest change to iOS’ since iPhone’s arrival
Apple on Monday took the wraps off iOS 7, revealing a dramatic new design that sheds six-year-old interface elements, and …
WWDC: OS X catches a wave, as Apple previews OS X Mavericks
When it comes to OS X, the cat is out of the bag. Apple senior vice president of software engineering …
Zscaler fixes BYOD risk with new mobile traffic cloud filtering
Zscaler has added mobile security to its arsenal of cloud-based security services, which the firm is pitching as a flexible …
Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS goes live
After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat OpenShift Online platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, …
Cisco overtakes IBM as top cloud hardware provider, research firm says
Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy …
Dell eyes up converged market with first SMB-targeted solution
Dell today announced the Middle East launch of its extended converged infrastructure portfolio, which includes the first converged solution specifically …
StorIT signs distribution deal with Supermicro
StorIT has signed a distribution agreement with Supermicro Computer, a server, storage technology and green computing company. According to the …
Spectrum group facilitates channel partners
Spectrum group, the holding company for Comguard, Spectrum Network Solutions, Spectrum Training, ComGuard Infosol (India) and Psilog International facilitated its …
Red Hat packages newer versions of Ruby, Python
Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer …