McAfee plans to acquire Stonesoft, a Helsinki-based maker of firewalls, for US$389 million in cash, the companies said Monday. The …
Juniper closer to Cisco in shipping SDN brains
Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule. The …
HP announces new ProBooks, including touchscreen model
Hewlett-Packard on Monday kicked off a series of upcoming PC announcements with new ProBook 400 series laptops, including a 15.6-inch …
Toshiba takes on Surface Pro with WT310 tablet
Toshiba has announced its WT310, a Windows 8 tablet to rival Microsoft’s Surface Pro. With Windows 8 Pro, an 11-inch Full HD screen …
AMD thinks beyond PCs with new custom chip business unit
Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established …
Study: High growth companies are better at analysing data
The Economist Intelligence Unit has found a strong relationship between the growth of corporate earnings and companies’ use of data …
IBM launches an appliance for the ‘Internet of things’
Preparing its customers to join the emerging ‘Internet of things’, IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route …
The mobility wave
Mobility is sweeping across the enterprises in the Middle East, creating bright opportunities for a channel reeling under pressure on …
Nanjgel gains Elite Partner Status with McAfee
Computerlinks partner Nanjgel has recently skilled up on McAfee solutions in order to gain Elite Partner Status, opening up a …
EMC storage business grows amid slight net profit shrink
EMC reported first-quarter revenue rose 6 percent to US$5.39 billion, while net income fell about 1 percent year-over-year to $580 …
SAP, Oracle still out in front as software growth slows, says IDC
A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according …
Infor CEO: Enterprise software sucks
Charles Phillips, CEO, Infor, today highlighted the ugly look and feel associated with most enterprise applications, teasing the efforts of …
Blackstone says Dell offer is off
By John Ribeiro and Agam Shah, IDG News Service Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than …
Cyber crime batters small businesses, says Symantec
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small businesses due to their less sophisticated defences, according to a new report from Symantec. …
Siemens and Teradata form big data partnership
Siemens’ Smart Grid division has announced a global strategic cooperation in big data with Teradata, through which it will further …
Getting the most from cloud contact centre solutions
CIOs need to evaluate certain criteria in order to smoothly migrate from an on-premise solution to a cloud based deployment, says …
Windows RT finds support from Dell
Dell remains committed to Microsoft’s Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices …
Dell: ARM servers waiting for 64-bit support
The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell’s top …
Teradata delivers Hadoop data to the enterprise
Teradata today became the first company to offer business analysts streamlined and self-service access to Apache Hadoop. Teredata Enterprise Access …
Teradata adds new components to its Unified Data Architecture
Teradata today introduced the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6700 platform, which adds a fabric-based hyper-speed nervous system and a …