Fadi Hindi is the Head of Strategic IT Planning & Enterprise Architecture at Dubai Customs. Hindi has eighteen years …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
It's not them, it's you
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
The supercomputer on your desktop
One reason is that processing that took an hour on a standard PC about eight years ago now takes six …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
IT sins to avoid
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
Measure for measure
Information security metrics have a bad rep. Mention metrics to a CISO and immediately his thoughts may well turn to …
Map to the future
There has been a major shift in CEO priorities from early in 2009 with top priorities switching from cutting costs to …
Silo state
It is here. Information explosion and excess data are realities that we as individuals, and as members of larger organisations, have …
Made for the Middle East
Technology vendors never miss a chance to state that the Middle East market is a very crucial one for them. …
Mission: Obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Formed in 1995, the Doha-based Foundation is dedicated to building human capital …
Brocade FCoE Solutions for Server I/O Convergence
For several years, Fibre Channel networks have been providing organizations with exceptional reliability, performance, and network intelligence for low-latency, high-bandwidth …
Brocade, McAfee in JV channel enablement programmes
The two vendors have developed a series of jointly designed, end-to-end network security solutions with advanced functionality, including fully automated …
Unmasking DLP
If you have been following the security technologies landscape, chances are that you have already heard of Data Loss Prevention. …
Optimising oil exploration
By incorporating flash memory as intelligent cache in its unified storage systems, NetApp helps customers optimize performance without adding complexity, …
Refined backup and recovery
The NetApp GeoFrame enhanced backup and recovery solution significantly improves protection of valuable GeoFrame data by dramatically increasing backup and …
The renaissance netbook
Like most manufacturers in the netbook space, Toshiba has gone and refreshed its knockout netbook with Intel’s Atom Pine Trail …
Symantec completes acquisition of PGP, GuardianEdge
These acquisitions extend Symantec’s ability to help customers secure and manage their most critical information. By bringing together PGP and …
Netgear eyes 10% growth in KSA
In line with this, the company is planning to roll out a nationwide expansion and awareness campaign in KSA, which …