Cisco Systems will cut about 6,500 jobs as part of an effort to focus its business and reduce operating expenses …
Cisco makes additions to data centre and cloud portfolio
At Cisco Live, the company’s annual IT and communications conference, Cisco today introduced new technology to increase the efficiency and …
CFOs reigning over IT investments: Gartner
In an increasing number of organisations, it’s not the CIO who’s deciding which IT projects should get funding — it’s …
Netting profits
Based on the popular belief that customers are constantly shopping for better experiences, retail organisations across the globe are investing …
Is the BlackBerry PlayBook for you?
In early May, I was one of the fortunate few in the UAE to have had a BlackBerry PlayBook in …
Apple, Microsoft consortium outbids Google for Nortel patents
Nortel Networks has auctioned off its remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium of key technology companies for a …
BPOS users must wait for Office365 :Microsoft
Office 365 is now officially out, but customers of the suite’s previous version, called BPOS, will have to wait at …
Storm that cometh
Virtualisation and cloud technologies are storming their way into enterprise infrastructure deployments. But, what happens to networks and their management, …
Itqan’s second wave
Growing competition and increasing regional demand for its services are making it bullish to cross over When Feras Al-Jabi, General …
Driving innovation
With more organisations making the transition to virtual computing it is time to understand the basis for successful implementation of …
Mid-market CIOs focus on analytics: IBM
Implementing business analytics has risen to the top of midmarket CIOs’ to-do lists, according to a new IBM study announced …
Peel away controls
The dirty little secret of iOS remote control devices is that the vast majority of them are terrible. And they …
Business analytics is all the buzz at SUGMENA conference
The buzz was all about the increasing importance, functionality and relevance of business analytics (BA) in organisations around the world …
Networking chief Haas leaving HP
Marius Haas, who led Hewlett-Packard’s networking business through the 3Com acquisition that made it a broader competitor to Cisco Systems, …
HP networking chief Marius Haas leaving
Marius Haas, who led Hewlett-Packard’s(HP) networking business through the 3Com acquisition that made it a broader competitor to Cisco Systems, …
PayPal and eBay sue Google
PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their …
IBM lures Oracle users
IBM is attempting to lure Oracle database and middleware customers to “move up” to its own software with a new …
Making IT count
Post global recession, the banking and finance sector in the region is investing in technology solutions to manage data flows, …
HSBC streamlining IT in $3.5b cost saving drive
HSBC has laid out aggressive plans to streamline IT and realign business processes, as part of a bid to save …
RIM announces two new BlackBerry Bold phones
Research in Motion announced two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones on Monday that run on a new BlackBerry 7 operating system …