In a PDF titled Xserve Transition Guide, Apple says that it will not develop a future version of Xserve. As …
Content needs to be king
Mark 2012 in your diary. That's the year that Marcus Weldon, Alcatel-Lucent's CTO, believes that the network industry may no …
Clearing the clouds
Middle East enterprises are slowly warming to the promise of cloud computing and are beginning to implement services in specific …
Disrupting the market
Chuck Schaeffer, chairman of Aplicor Standfirst: SaaS-based ERP and CRM vendor, Aplicor, is a veteran in its space with clients …
Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform
Oracle detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas …
Banking on the channel
With the software solutions market being touted as the sector that holds lots of opportunities for solution providers in the …
Oracle provides Sparc road map, but questions remain
Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of …
A practical guide to migrating to VoIP
One of the most crucial steps any organisation should take in deploying a solution for voice over IP (VoIP) is …
Framework Wise
CIOs have long struggled to measure and demonstrate the business value of IT investments. But there’s a relatively new approach …
Speedy justice
The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) ensures the delivery and administration of justice and equality for all citizens and residents …
RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in
Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Mission: obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Sa’di M Awienat, director of IT at Qatar Foundation Formed in 1995, …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
It's not them, it's you
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
The supercomputer on your desktop
One reason is that processing that took an hour on a standard PC about eight years ago now takes six …
IT sins to avoid
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
Mission: Obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Formed in 1995, the Doha-based Foundation is dedicated to building human capital …
Optimising oil exploration
By incorporating flash memory as intelligent cache in its unified storage systems, NetApp helps customers optimize performance without adding complexity, …
Reviewing security policies
It’s an exhilarating feeling to be back at the blog again after a long hiatus owing to strict consulting project …