F5 is coming out with new hardware and software for service providers that will allow them to provide new revenue-generating …
Extreme agility
Dubai-based multi-billion dollar investment firm Legatum, which manages proprietary capital, has a unique management philosophy. The firm, which is focused …
On an upturn
Where does Riverbed go beyond WAN optimisation? You are a dominant player, but the danger is that you become a …
Clearing the clouds
Middle East enterprises are slowly warming to the promise of cloud computing and are beginning to implement services in specific …
Disrupting the market
Chuck Schaeffer, chairman of Aplicor Standfirst: SaaS-based ERP and CRM vendor, Aplicor, is a veteran in its space with clients …
Femtocells loose in the UAE
Etisalat’s customers will benefit from an enhanced quality of mobile broadband connectivity in remote areas of the UAE and in …
Unified Communications in the cloud
Unified communications (UC) as we know it today is flawed. The initial investment is simply too high for the return, …
Reaping rewards
HCL BPO, a division of HCL Technologies Limited, is a dominant player in the business process outsourcing (BPO) field with …
Primed for success
With the acquisition of 3Com now behind it, HP Networking has already begun positioning the new integrated product line that …
Avaya CEO on competition, cloud and Nortel integration
How's the Nortel integration going? The integration is going fairly well. If I were to look at it from the …
IBM to acquire OpenPages
OpenPages' software aggregates data pertaining to compliance and risk management (including operational risk, financial controls management, IT risk and internal …
The SMB promise
Software is one area in IT today that can drastically reduce the element of risk as one great implementation could …
Going Jade
From a single employee printing on both sides of a sheet of paper to a multi-million dollar investment in energy …
A greener choice
Computing and network hardware has traditionally been benchmarked on performance with no clear metrics for energy efficiency. And because the …
Mobile market maturing rapidly
The global mobile phone sector will reach revenues of US$1 trillion in 2015, a year later than anticipated, according to …
Will Oracle buy Informatica next?
Ever-acquisitive Oracle may place data integration specialist Informatica in its sights next, according to a recent pair of surveys. Informatica …
The end of outsourcing
Most outsourcing analysts and consultants will tell you that the future of the traditional IT services industry is uncertain. Arjun …
Security nightmares
What security issues keep major regional CIOs up at night? Apparently, a lot. “The security of business IT systems has …
Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says
The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought …
Dell goes modular
Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data centre products, but has now showed off a new design it …