Has the time finally arrived when CIOs should be looking over their shoulders at CDOs and CFOs hungry to snatch …
GCC IT industry to grow 10 to 25 percent in 2013, say market leaders
According to a recent survey by technology solution provider Omnix, the IT software and services sector in the GCC is …
The rat race
Each month, we discuss the impact that technology has over a number of verticals and how new trends can change …
HP announces Converged Systems business, unifies server divisions
Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it has created a business unit that will deal in purpose-built systems based on specific applications …
Unrivalled Velocity
Undisputable storage powerhouse EMC claims to be ahead of the game, and you don’t get out in front by standing …
MacBook Pro the most reliable Windows laptop, says report
Soluto’s PC troubleshooting Web service has saved many a forehead from banging against a desk. By scanning computers for installed …
SAP, Oracle still out in front as software growth slows, says IDC
A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according …
Infor unveils Sky Vault cloud service
Infor on Monday announced Sky Vault, a big data cloud service based on its ION Business Vault suite that utilises …
World’s fastest supercomputer gets 40 petabytes of storage
The world’s fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system …
IT enduring largest disruption to date, says EMC’s Brian Gallagher
The IT industry is in the midst of its largest disruption to date, according to Brian Gallagher, President of EMC’s …
The next frontier
At the Cisco Connect conference in Dubai, Cisco offered a glimpse into a fantastical world of next-generation technologies, urging the …
Paradigm shift
It’s a time of transformation for information technology. Are solution providers experiencing a shift from a product-based model to a …
IBM pledges $1bn for Flash-based R&D
Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last autumn, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 …
The tech revolution
March saw Gartner bring its global Symposium series to the Middle East for the first time at the Madinat Arena …
HP launches revolutionary new class of server, Moonshot
HP demonstrated that innovation is well and truly alive as it announced the official release of its new revolutionary class …
It’s all about storage
If I was the kind of person to play the stock market, I’d invest heavily in anyone who has anything …
Google leads charge against ‘patent trolls’
Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public …
Proper planning
As any CeBit visitor knows, it’s impossible to navigate the vast trade show without coming up with a decent plan. …
‘People are buying dumb storage’
At Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hu Yoshida is the CTO responsible for defining the company’s technical direction. For everybody else, …
A cloud over telecoms
The last thing anybody needs is another story highlighting the benefits and challenges of implementing a cloud-based solution for their …