A rapid shift in attitude towards cloud banking is happening within the financial services (FS) industry, according to Gartner. A …
A solutions company
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell outlines the company’s aggressive plans to grow its portfolio of solutions by acquiring more intellectual …
ARM leads march to 64-bit tablets, smartphones: analysts
ARM’s new 64-bit ARMv8 architecture could be used in tablets and smartphones in a few years, which could help deliver …
Turning a new leaf
CIOs in the Middle East still struggle to give green ICT investments a business language, and this is hampering the …
Critical connections
KSA’s Jarir Bookstore battled the challenges associated with connecting disparate centres of business by deploying SonicWALL’s NSA Series and building …
EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage
EMC held its user forum last week and used the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualisation and the …
“Touch has become ubiquitous”, Somanna Palacanda, Director of Marketing for Surface, Microsoft
Four years into the making and Microsoft?s Surface is beginning to look like the board room device of tomorrow. With …
ARM unveils Cortex-A7 chip for smartphones
ARM Holdings has introduced the Cortex-A7, a new microprocessor design that will be used in sub-US$100 smartphones, as well as …
SAP and Dubal stress innovation as essential for the UAE
A vibrant and innovative IT sector will be vital for business development, sustainable job creation and economic diversification in the …
VMware unveils management portfolio for cloud era
VMware has unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations …
Viva vibe
Kuwait’s Viva Telecom implements a data warehouse and business intelligence (DWBI) solution to benefit business operations, Pallavi Sharma reports. As …
Apple: It’s the iPhone 4S, not the iPhone 5
Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook and other company executives introduced the new iPhone 4S, an upgrade to the existing iPhone …
Ellison unveils ‘Exalytics’ in-memory machine
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled the Exalytics Intelligence Machine, the latest member of the company’s products that combine software and …
AMD reduces third-quarter revenue projection
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) yesterday reduced its revenue projection for its third fiscal quarter ending Oct. 1, citing manufacturing yield …
Smart grids pave way for efficient energy: Huawei
With energy consumption in the Middle East set to double in the next decade, electric utilities and energy providers need …
Dell Latitude 2120- rugged and overpriced
Dell touts the Latitude 2120 as the ideal netbook for business. That engenders the question: is an old-school, underperforming, under-screened …
99.999% availability
Fault tolerant servers from Stratus have redundant components and can ensure annual downtime is less than 6 minutes Stratus Technologies …
Blue Coat launches new CacheFlow appliance
Blue Coat Systems, today announced its next-generation Blue Coat CacheFlow 5000 appliance, which according to the company, delivers a significant …
NetLogic will help tap into 4G, cloud: Broadcom
Broadcom’s deal to buy communications processor vendor NetLogic Microsystems for US$3.7 billion will help the company feed the fast-growing demand …
Embedded systems market to double by 2015: IDC
The market for embedded computer systems, which already generates more than US$1 trillion in revenue annually, will double in size …