As IT spending is slowly improving in the Middle East region, regional components specialist distributor Golden Systems is using this …

Anatomy of protection
Everything revolves around information and people. That was the core message of the Symantec Vision held in Barcelona last month, …

The power of one
NWME: In June, you have unveiled Brocade One converged data centre strategy and product plans. Have you been able to …

Juniper Networks to acquire Trapeze Networks
The acquisition is anticipated to close in the Q4 of 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and …

Apple discontinues the Xserve
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 …


