Server vendors on Monday came out in support of Advanced Micro Devices’ latest Opteron 6200 server chips, which advance chip …
HP aims high
HP aims high HP has rolled out an array of networking products for the enterprise campus, branch and data centre, including a switch …
Turkey’s largest ISP chooses EMC Documentum xCP
TTNET, Turkey’s largest internet service provider, is automating several business processes across multiple departments using EMC Documentum xCP, an integrated …
AMD’s 16-core Opteron chips arrive after wait
After a brief delay and more than a year of chatter, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the availability of …
Value spin off
Almasa has chosen to spin off its value division leveraging on industry stalwart Roger El Tawil to deliver on the …
“It is better to work with one distributor having a channel network within a country,” Mathis Lai
EMPA distributes the Philips brand of monitors in UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. However Hong Kong based TPV …
US cyber chief says cloud computing can manage cyber threats
The security of cloud computing is often debated but such debates seem to be over for the general tasked with …
HP releases new Slate tablet after retaining PC unit
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced the new Slate 2 tablet with the Windows 7 OS, just under a week after the company …
Sony to acquire Ericsson’s share of Sony Ericsson
Ericsson and Sony Corporation announced that Sony will acquire Ericsson’s 50% stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (“Sony Ericsson”), …
Financial sector facing shift in attitude towards the cloud: Gartner
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 …
Motorola to lay off 800 more workers
Motorola Mobility will lay off 800 people, the latest in a string of worker reductions at the handset maker, as …
Facebook data centre project takes aim at vendor lock-in
By launching the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardise the market for …
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 …
LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce
Fabless semi-conductor maker LSI today announced it will acquire SandForce, a maker of flash memory controllers for enterprise-class and consumer …
Spinning off PC group would have cost billions: HP
Spinning off its PC unit would have been too costly for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and that was one of the reasons …
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 …
Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs
Quantum this week unveiled a backup appliance for $5,139 that offers smaller businesses 8TB of capacity and data deduplication capabilities …