IBM is a special brand in the IT world. It’s home to over 433,000 employees worldwide and one of the …
You only live twice
With an ever-increasing data volume but by no means an ever-increasing IT budget, businesses are facing a tough task in …
Telepresence of mind for ROI
The most important question on the mind of every CIO when pitching a project to senior management revolves entirely around …
State of flux
The sixth edition of IDC’s Middle East CIO Summit had a strong sense of urgency to it. From the nature …
ARIS 9.0 launched at CeBit
Software AG last week announced the availability of ARIS 9.0 at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The vendor …
Intel IT uses Hadoop to slash chip testing times
Intel IT has developed a predictive analytics solution which, it claims, can reduce chip test time by 25 percent and …
Getting social with Infostreams
Over the past year, it’s been impossible to ignore what research firms IDC and Gartner describe as the four forces …
HP announces extended converged infrastructure innovations
HP today announced new innovations aiming to strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in …
Middle East IT spending to reach $192.9bn in 2013: Gartner
Middle East IT spending is projected to total $192.9 billion in 2013, a 5.5 percent increase from 2012, according to …
No jeopardy for Watson
Following IBM’s February announcement that Watson – its groundbreaking artificial intelligence computer system – will carry out its first commercial …
Software AG unveils in-memory webMethods 9.0
Software AG said on Monday that the new Version 9.0 of its webMethods server suite will bring in-memory capabilities to …
IBM kicks off partner conference with smarter cities promise
Mark Hennessy, General Manager, Global Business Partners, kicked off IBM’s Leadership Conference in Las Vegas today by stating that IBM …
Ericsson and SAP collaborate on cloud-based M2M solutions
Ericsson and SAP have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based M2M solutions and services to enterprises via …
HP Moonshot server due next quarter
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced on Thursday that the firm’s first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a …
The virtual legacy
It took a long time for companies to come around to the idea of virtualising their environments. Virtualisation is a …
It’s all about mid-market
The burgeoning mid-market is offers a plethora of opportunities for the channel willing to invest in services and solutions, and …
Grappling with information management
A holistic approach to information management means big benefits in cost reduction and risk management, says Allen Mitchell, Senior Technical …
RSA launches Security Analytics in UAE
RSA last week launched its Security Analytics solution in the UAE, promising to leverage big data in order to provide …
IBM buys Star Analytics software
In an effort to add more performance management muscle to its line of analysis software and services, IBM has announced …
Innovation to celebration
It’s been a year of sheer brilliance from the IT sector. In response to the strongly recovering economy, CIOs all …