I was back on my travels last month — Florida, to be exact. I was one of the 20,000 people …
Actifio and Spectrami launch Middle East’s first Customer Experience Centre in Dubai
Copy data management company, Actifio, and dedicated Middle East partner, Spectrami, have launched a Customer Experience Centre in Dubai dedicated to enhancing the customer experience for their wide breadth of partners and users… More pictures inside.
IBM re-moulds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that …
Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress
Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, …
Gartner: 7 major trends forcing IT security pros to change
Enterprises are under heavy pressure to change their approach to IT security because of a “nexus of forces” that include …
StorIT signs distribution deal with Supermicro
StorIT has signed a distribution agreement with Supermicro Computer, a server, storage technology and green computing company. According to the …
Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012
The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after “a few historic banner years” of spending …
Etisalat ICT Forum: Broader than broadband
When you’ve built yourself up to become one of the Middle East and Africa’s largest telecoms operators, it can be …
IT Transformation is Key to Business Growth, says Dell
Enterprises must innovate and adapt to the emerging trends, or be left behind. This was the message imparted by IT …
Comguard, HP hold training workshop in Riyadh
Comguard recently teamed with HP to conduct a special training workshop for channel partners in Saudi Arabia. The workshop was …
IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics
Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in …
CIOs’ relationship with marketing is weak: survey
With sales and marketing departments having more control over the technology agenda in many organisations, CIOs need to think about whether they …
SAP launches Afaria mobile management in the cloud
From today, SAP is offering its Afaria mobile management solution in the cloud, hosted on Amazon AWS, for only €1 …
Embrace mobility or be left behind, says SAP
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s business leaders need to embrace enterprise mobility, or they risk suffering rapid …
Four more years
Even the best storage products must eventually be retired – a fact that many belt-tightening CIOs are at pains to …
Learning the ropes
At its Universe event in Copenhagen, Teradata unveiled a new approach to big data which allows organisations to embrace the …
Social ROI: Our Industry’s Screaming Goat
Mike Stiles, Senior Content Manager, Oracle, on how to measure social return on investment. You know the screaming goat meme, right? It’s …
IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks
The combination of highly virtualised environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations …
Tooling up
Teradata is pitching a new approach to big data, which allows organisations to embrace the technology in an easier and …
EMC Isilon prepares next scale-out NAS OS
EMC today announced that it is preparing the next version of its EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system. Building …