The popular Snapchat photo-messaging app used mainly by Android and iOS mobile device owners to share images that then self-destruct …
CommVault partners with Qatar Datamation Systems
IT solutions provider Qatar Datamation Systems (QDS) this week announced a partnership agreement with CommVault to promote the data management …
Infor uninterested in owning cloud data centres
Infor’s CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for …
Middle East CIOs must learn more about Hadoop, says Teradata CTO
CIOs in the Middle East need to start to learn what Apache Hadoop is in order to understand the true …
Are data centre vendors taking companies for a ride?
The volume of data centre projects continues to rise in the Middle East, but experts believe that the education level …
Three questions to ask about virtual server data protection
Allen Mitchell, Senior Technical Account Manager, MENA at CommVault Systems, advises CIOs on virtual server data protection. IT has reached …
Big Switch hopes to drive OpenFlow adoption
In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for …
The big solution
In a time when economic uncertainty still hangs over much of the world, technology resellers are struggling with declining margins …
IBM wants data scientists to research origins of universe
IBM and ASTRON are on the hunt for scientists to take part in what is described as the world’s biggest …
Flexible data centres
With demand for storage and networking capabilities skyrocketing, in-house and hosted data centres are being put under greater pressure than …
Mobile data to exceed fixed-line data by 2017
According to new research from Cisco, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, exceeding the …
Big transformations for enterprise IT
Paul Cormier, President of Products and Technologies, Red Hat, explains how cloud, middleware, storage and virtualisation technologies will drive the …
Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5 users consume most data
Apple iPhone 5 users consume more cellular data than anyone else, while owners of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S III upload …
By 2020, there will be 5,200 GB of data for every person
During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes, which is the equivalent of …
Cisco aims for bigger services business, more software revenue
Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in …
HP claims revolution with biggest storage announcements in 10 years
HP today declared itself back on the up with what it referred to as its biggest storage announcements in over …
Amazon introduces data warehouse service
Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, …
Google gives cloud database performance boost
Google’s Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running …
AccessData unveils new release of CIRT
Security vendor AccessData has launched version 2 of its CIRT (Cyber Intelligence and Response Technology) product, which is the only …
South Carolina reveals massive data breach
Approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers belonging to South Carolina taxpayers were exposed …