The ‘greenest’ supercomputer in the world is still made by IBM, which has taken the first two sports on the latest …
Rebates, incentives, loyalty programmes, promotions: What works?
By any theory of channel marketing these are established instruments of “reward power”. However with shorter life cycles and new …
High-end SME and retail, key areas for Lenovo
With growth and product movement in these segments, the vendor has made them a priority for this year At DCC …
The new generation of apps
The world today is at the confluence of several trends, each sufficiently disruptive in its own right to affect profoundly …
Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance
IBM’s Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyse up to 10 petabytes of data “in …
SGI, Intel plan to speed up supercomputers 500 times by 2018
Silicon Graphics International hopes by 2018 to build supercomputers 500 times faster than the most powerful today, using specially designed …
SGI to speed-up supercomputers by 500 times using Intel chips
Silicon Graphics International hopes by 2018 to build supercomputers 500 times faster than the most powerful today, using specially designed …
Cloud now used by 80% of firms: Capgemini
A worldwide survey of 1,250 C-level executives and IT directors shows that 81% of firms have already moved at least …
EU ministers to ban creation of ‘hacking tools’
Justice Ministers across Europe want to make the creation of “hacking tools” a criminal offense, but critics have hit back …
How hot is your data?
According to industry commentator James Taylor, “Analytics simplify data to amplify its value”. The problem is that data today for …
Itqan’s second wave
Growing competition and increasing regional demand for its services are making it bullish to cross over When Feras Al-Jabi, General …
Virtual blind spot
Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of virtualisation, where the threats are new and …
Reseller announces award winners 2011
AMD, Asbis, Kaspersky pick up prestigious awards at Reseller Awards 2011 Component vendor AMD and regional distributor Asbis, picked up …
Etisalat to launch LTE service soon
Etisalat today, announced that the company is in the final stage of testing the advanced Long Term Evolution (LTE) network …
Obama’s CTO eyes the cloud
The federal government is “bullish” on prospects for using cloud and mobile technologies, although perhaps not at the expense of …
Epson WorkForce 840 All-in-One Printer
Epson’s WorkForce 840 All-in-One Printer is a color inkjet multifunction printer (print/copy/scan/fax) for small offices. At the price of $299, …
Jumbo’s service centre completes one year
Jumbo also plans to continue growing business in non retails areas such as IT solutions The Jumbo service centre, the …
Oracle returns growth to Sun server business: IDC
Oracle logged a small milestone in its Sun acquisition during the first quarter, expanding sales of Sun’s server hardware for …
Sophos introduces enhanced encryption solutions
IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced the availability of a number of new and enhanced enterprise product …
An app store future and what it means
Apple’s App Store for its iPhone and other iOS devices is an unqualified success, blowing through the 10 billion downloads …