Qais Gharaibeh, UAE Managing Director, SAP MENA

Samsung exec hits out at Windows 8
The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints …

GBM awarded Cisco customer satisfaction gold star
Gulf Business Machines (GBM) on Sunday announced that it had been awarded a Customer Satisfaction Excellence Gold Star from Cisco. …

Beating the big data blues
Henrik Pederson, Senior Technical Account Manager, CommVault Systems, explains how an integrated data management strategy can help to manage big …

Rimini Street growth spooks Oracle, SAP
Rimini Street, a third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, posted impressive growth results in the EMEA region during …

WatchGuard to release new XTM models
WatchGuard Technologies has announced the upcoming availability of seven new models in its line of extensible threat management (XTM) products. …

ARM server maker offers cloud service to port x86 code
ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing …

Fujitsu launches new Lifebook E Line laptops
Fujitsu promises that its Lifebook E Line laptops will use all the same standard components, including the main board, drives …

No jeopardy for Watson
Following IBM’s February announcement that Watson – its groundbreaking artificial intelligence computer system – will carry out its first commercial …

Eye of the storm
Experts recently pointed towards security as the main obstacle for adoption of all cloud types and claimed that cloud security …

30 years of PCWorld, 30 pivotal moments in PC history
Talk about longevity. Thirty years ago to this month, PCWorld published its very first print issue, a 310-page magazine loaded …

HP Envy 23 Touchsmart
HP’s TouchSmart series is one of the more widely available, long-standing models of all-in-one. We tested the latest entry-level Envy …

PC shipments will decrease in 2013, says IDC
Worldwide PC shipments dropped in 2012 on an annual basis for the first time in more than a decade and …

Bitdefender: Government targeting MiniDuke malware is 21 months old
A version of MiniDuke, the cyberspy malware aimed at governments and agencies in Europe and elsewhere, has been operating for …

Malware-as-a-service market sees rise in services
Prices are falling and the number of services is increasing as developers in the online underground compete fiercely for criminals …

FireEye launches new threat protection platform
Security company, FireEye, has announced a new threat protection platform designed to help enterprises deploy new security models to counter …

Secure everything, everywhere ..and that includes performance and productivity
Dell SonicWALL’s Head of Product Marketing, Florian Malecki, talks devices, data, and security. We love our devices. IDC is predicting …

MiniDuke malware targets 23 governments
A cyber espionage operation dubbed MiniDuke has targeted government organisations in as many as 23 countries, security vendors said on …

4Gone conclusion
The UAE and KSA may have been behind 10 European operators when they became the first Middle East countries to …
Review: Chromebook Pixel
Anyone who thinks the Chromebook Pixel is a ludicrous idea hasn’t actually tried one – or at least that’s our …


