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. …
Golden Systems in partnership with PNY
Iman Mozaffari, Sales and Product Director of Golden Systems Middle East. Golden Systems Middle East announced they have signed a …
USB 3.0 to reach smartphones, tablets by year end
USB 3.0 ports will reach smartphones and tablets by the end of the year or early next year, the USB …
Acer to offer free cloud service
Acer kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday by previewing a free cloud service for storing images and other …
Symantec confirms source cod leak in enterprise security products
Symantec confirmed, just before the start of the Middle East weekend, that source code used in two of its older …
Data appliance for SMEs
SAS and EMC Greenplum come together in the region to launch a power packed data management solution for SMEs In …
PayPal president to become Yahoo CEO
Yahoo’s board has chosen as the company’s CEO Scott Thompson, president of eBay’s PayPal, ending a four-month search after Carol …
Big and growing
There is no easy way to say this. Ask a few people about what big data stands for, and you …
Brick-by-brick
Every once in a while, there comes an organisation that challenges the way other organisations have been dealing with strapped …
Google acquires more IBM patents
Google has acquired more IBM patents, adding more than 200 to approximately 2,000 patents it had previously bought from IBM. …
Imation buys Nine Technology
Storage vendor Imation has acquired intellectual property and other assets of online backup provider Nine Technology. Imation, a provider of …
Office 365: Microsoft rolls it out
A new paradigm of unified computing, targeted at small and medium enterprises, is being rolled out across the region. So …
Samsung and HTC smartphones picking up pace
The battle between Samsung and Apple for smartphone superiority continues. After an abundance of advertising, lawsuits and patents trying to …
Cisco debuts CloudVerse
Cisco has introduced Cisco CloudVerse, a framework that combines the foundational elements –Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud …
Big data, security and cloud identified as IT “super themes” in 2012
“Big data” analytics, security and cloud computing will be three of the most significant drivers of technological change in 2012, …