Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. …
IT leaders continue to juggle multiple priorities in 2012: research
Analytics and business intelligence have moved back to the top of the technology priority list for CIOs, followed by mobile …
New piracy law proposed as Internet blackout stalls SOPA and PIPA
A SOPA opponent offered an alternative law for fighting piracy on the same day the Internet blackout urged U.S. Congress …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Crowd computing- the future?
While firms are up on their toes in their respective bids to take their companies to the cloud–touted to be …
Cyber war is here, and everyone can get caught in it: Kaspersky
The Internet is becoming a cyber war ground that companies and users will get caught in the middle of, warned …
Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company, the latest dramatic change at the top of the embattled Internet company. …
Buyers beware of unified networks: Salim
Enterprises should think carefully before turning towards internet protocol and unified ICT networks, says Muttahir Salim, principal consultant for reliance, …
IBM joins BIAN board
IBM has joined the independent BIAN board, which seeks to establish a service-oriented architecture standard for the banking industry that …
Lenovo U300s
Lenovo, the world’s second largest PC maker has released its first UltraBook. Overview The first concept of an UltraBook was …
Ultrabooks boost popularity of cache solid state drives
The rise of ultrabook laptops has boosted the popularity of cache solid state drives, which are a cheaper alternative to …
Google appoints VMWare’s former CEO to its board
Google has appointed Diane Greene, a co-founder and former CEO of VMware, to its board of directors and audit committee. …
Infor introduces ION
Infor, a vendor of business application software unveiled Infor10, which features a consumer type user experience, industry specific software applications …
NetBase, SAP offer social media analytics
To help global enterprises capitalise on the use of social media data, SAP AG and NetBase have announced that SAP …
GE, Microsoft launch JV aimed at global healthcare system transformation
General Electric Company through its healthcare IT business and Microsoft announced plans to create a joint venture aimed at helping …
Outlook 2012, Application explosion
IT environments in the Middle East are becoming increasingly complicated and the number of applications to manage is exploding. Virtualisation, …
Outlook 2012, Nations and networks
Gulf markets are leapfrogging developed economies by embracing new business models and technologies to achieve their social and economic goals. …
Outlook 2012, Reading the cards
Microsoft will begin to dominate new networking and technology areas by increasing its share of unified communication and voice over …
Oracle’s big data appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance product, which began shipping Tuesday , gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache …
Dell introduces new ultrabook
Dell has joined the ultrabook market after announcing the release of the XPS 13 at the Consumer Electronics Show yesterday. …