Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has announced its participation at GITEX Technology Week taking place from 18th to 22nd October.

Five things CIOs need to know about data lakes
Data lakes are gaining momentum in the IT space. However, there are still a lot of factors information leaders must understand about the concept.

The big migration
Ovanes Mikhailov, Managing Director, Middle East, Kaspersky Lab, shares insight on the top security issues IT leaders need to consider when migrating to a new OS.
Alpha Data wins Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award
Alpha Data has announced that it has won the 2015 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for the UAE.

The big migration
Planning is the key to a successful move from on-premise to cloud services.
Delivering on the Big Vision of Small Business
SAP along with its Gold partner, TYCONZ, organised an end user event, which was a platform to educate attendees on SAP Business One solution, an ERP solution designed specifically for SMEs along with SAP Business Intelligence solution for SMEs.

Project Fi will help Google amass more data about its users
As Google dives into the Wi-Fi and cellular network services business, some are wondering just where the company is headed.

EMC pools enterprise smarts to create data ‘lakes’
EMC is drawing on its “federation” of companies to help customers build data lakes using EMC storage, VMware virtualisation and …
Betting big
Insights from Big Data and analytics can transform businesses and give it the power to make informed decisions. Reseller ME investigates what the channel partners can do to reach out to customers more effectively and monetise this technology.

The big upgrade
The adoption of virtualisation in the past few years has undoubtedly changed the face of the data centre. No longer housed in sprawling warehouses, data centres are fast becoming slimmed down and agile.

EMC: UAE behind in data protection
EMC has announced the findings of a new global data protection study that reveals that data loss and downtime have cost enterprises $1.7 trillion (globally) in the last twelve months, with the UAE’s maturity in data protection low.

Data defence
Suni Munshani, CEO, Protegrity, discusses the evolution of data security in a dynamic business environment.

Insights to data security
Protegrity, a global provider of data-centric enterprise data security solutions, including advanced tokenisation and encryption solutions for databases, applications, Big …

Data differentiation
At Partners 2014, an annual event held by Teradata, transforming businesses to be data-driven was the key theme.

Ayasdi announces strategic Teradata alliance
Analytics applications firm Ayasdi has announced a strategic partnership with Teradata to “empower enterprises” to find critical intelligence within their growing datasets.

Etisalat Misr enlists Teradata Integrated Marketing Cloud
Egyptian telecoms operator Etisalat Misr is teaming with Big Data analytics and marketing applications firm Teradata to “grow their customer base, reduce churn and increase marketing ROI”.

5 unanswered questions about massive Russian hacker database
There’s still much that’s unclear about Tuesday’s revelation that a small group of hackers in Russia have amassed a database of 1.2 billion stolen …

Mastering the data
Moving virtual servers around a hybrid cloud environment isn’t hard, but managing the data is. That’s why NetApp wants to be “the enterprise data-management standard across the enterprise,” says CEO Tom Georgens.
Teradata opens Riyadh office
Teradata has announced the establishment of Teradata Saudi Arabia LLC to strengthen its commitment to current and prospective customers and channel partners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Big prospects
Reseller ME finds out how the channel players can penetrate the Big Data space to offer value-added services in the region.