That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by …
Dynamic dimensions
At the Cisco Expo UAE, the company and its partners came together to highlight key technology opportunities in the region. …
Out of the box
Storage is a continuing story as vendors consistently innovate to help businesses cope with increasing amounts of data. Pallavi Sharma …
Software AG buys messaging company my-Channels
Software AG said Monday that it has acquired middleware company my-Channels, which develops low-latency messaging software that will be used …
Twitter acquires social media analytics team
Twitter has acquired the team at social media analytics company Hotspots.io, signalling its intent to go after the big data …
Secure future
The year 2012 is dominated by three key trends – cloud, virtualisation and big data. These may be revolutionising the …
Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive
Hitachi’s former disk-drive division today announced what it said is the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive. The drive has …
Filling the gaps
The noticeable gap between the IT skills needed and those that are currently available in the market got Pallavi Sharma …
We are entering the era of ‘pervasive computing’ says Cisco’s Charney
In his keynote at Cisco Expo UAE 2012, which took place last week at the Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai, …
Oracle set to update analytics strategy, go after SAP customers
Oracle co-president Mark Hurd is scheduled to reveal new details about the vendor’s BI (business intelligence) and analytics strategy, including …
EMC buys app development management firm Pivotal Labs
EMC announced Tuesday that it has acquired application development consultancy, Pivotal Labs , which will help Greenplum customers more quickly develop software for big …
Cloud will create more jobs than internet did: study
Cloud computing has a greater potential for employment growth than the internet did in its early years, according to a …
Oracle net income rises 18 percent, but hardware sales slump
Oracle yesterday said third-quarter net income rose 18 percent to US$2.5 billion, while revenues grew 3 percent to $9 billion. …
Spectrami delivers Actifio PAS platform to the Middle East
Spectrami, a value added distributor, recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Actifio, the Protection and Availability Storage …
Don’t risk falling behind on IT trends: Microsoft
Microsoft yesterday sent out a message to companies in the Middle East to embrace IT trends and not risk getting …
WD completes acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Western Digital Corporation (WDC) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Viviti Technologies (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies),for …
Mobile is decreasing necessity for physical workplaces: Galvis, Microsoft
Microsoft has predicted by the end of 2013 one third of workers will work mobile, as opposed to operating in …
Winning with consolidation
Data centre consolidation is a term being thrown around in 2012 almost as much as virtualisation, cloud and big data. …
Survival of the fittest
The past year has given enough reason for regional enterprises to begin investing in a robust business continuity (BC) and …
CommVault unveils new Simpana software
At its SolveForward 2012 event, CommVault unveiled new, next-generation singular information management innovations that further empower Simpana software customers to …