The IT industry is in the midst of its largest disruption to date, according to Brian Gallagher, President of EMC’s …
Worldwide device shipments to top 2.4bn in 2013, says Gartner
According to Gartner, over 2.4 billion devices will be sold worldwide during 2013, marking a 9 percent increase from 2012. …
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 …
LANDesk buys Protect product family from VMware
To concentrate more on software-defined data centres, hybrid clouds and end-user computing, VMware has sold the Protect product family to …
Acer unveils all-in-one Aspire ZC-605
Acer on Sunday announced its latest all-in-one consumer desktop, the 19.5-inch Aspire ZC-605. As is the case with most all-in-one …
Whose job is it, anyway?
A growing number of Middle East CIOs are hiring specialised service providers to manage their organisation’s infrastructure. Is this the …
Dell eyes ARM supercomputers of the future
Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces …
Mega DDoS attacks on the rise – Kaspersky
DDoS attacks like the one that resulted from an altercation between a Dutch company and Spamhaus this week are on …
‘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 smarter world
IBM is a special brand in the IT world. It’s home to over 433,000 employees worldwide and one of the …
Red Hat announces 13-city EMEA tour
Red Hat last week announced that it is set to host a 13-city tour of one-day events throughout Europe and …
Redington Value to distribute VMware in Africa
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, has been appointed as a VMware distributor in WECA, marking a …
Virtually unstoppable – VMware: We’re miles ahead
“It’s nice to have competition,” says the senior director of VMware’s pre-sales division, Herve Renault. He sits in Grosvenor House …
ZTE launches Grand Memo 5.7-inch ‘phablet’
ZTE yesterday launched the ZTE Grand Memo 5.7-inch smartphone running on Qualcomm®Snapdragon 800 processors, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. …
CIO Spotlight: Successful momentum
It is rare to meet a person in any industry, let alone IT, to reach such a corporate level at …
Channels of profit
Times have never been better for security-focused channel partners. The fast changing threat landscape and the emergence of advanced threats …
du virtualises with Cisco Unified Data Centre
du announced on Wednesday that it will deploy the foundation layer for its virtualised infrastructure based on Cisco’s Unified Computing …
Customers to keep a close eye on Dell
Dell customers have shown mixed reactions to the firm’s decision to go private, and are watching developments closely as they …
BlackBerry launches BlackBerry10 platform, two new smartphones
BlackBerry last night launched BlackBerry 10 across the world – dubbed ‘the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry’ platform that creates …
VMware threatens 900 job losses as growth slows
VMware said Monday it will cut 900 jobs in a move to focus more on high potential businesses, as profits …