HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) and the HKTDC International ICT Expo, one of Asia’s largest spring electronics fair, will showcase the latest electronics and technology trends in April this year.
China's Alibaba offering to buy mapping service for $1.1 billion
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is offering to pay US$1.1 billion to buy one of the country’s largest mapping providers, as part of its strategy to boost its mobile services.
Red Hat appoints new GM for META
Red Hat has appointed Fayçal Saile as General Manager for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region. In this capacity, he will be responsible for the overall direction and management of sales, business development and support operations. He will also play a key role in the development of the company’s ecosystem with partners, system integrators, alliances and distributors in the region.
Daunting challenges await Nadella as he takes over from Ballmer
Satya Nadella will face a host of problems upon assuming his mantle as Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella to succeed Ballmer as Microsoft CEO
Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO: Satya Nadella, who as executive vice president of the company’s Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company’s back-end server software and tools to the cloud.
RSA hosts Dubai Security Summit
RSA, the security division of EMC, yesterday hosted its Security Summit, a one day security conference in Dubai aimed at helping organisations address evolving, complex and sensitive security challenges.
Enterprise Systems to distribute Brocade solutions
One of Brocade’s main priorities and focus in 2014 will be on strengthening and enabling its regional channel ecosystem and signing this distribution partnership is a big step in this direction.
What the Internet of Things will mean for CIOs
In a recent blog post, Frost & Sullivan analyst Andrew Milroy predicts that more data will be generated by machines, or things, this year than by human beings.
Analysing Smart City technology
Smart City technology to grow to USD 20.2 billion by 2020, but organisations need long-lasting IT plans in the next six months, says Condo Protego CEO Andrew Calthorpe
Hitachi and SAP expand relationship with new offerings
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP have announced an expansion of their worldwide alliance by signing a global original equipment manufacturer agreement that introduces plans to include SAP HANA delivered by HDS.
FVC presents Cyan SDN and packet-optical solutions
FVC, the value-added distributor (VAD) in MENA and authorised distributor for Cyan has announced the launch of Cyan software-defined networking (SDN) and packet-optical solutions for enterprise networks in the Middle East.
Hitachi and SAP expands global alliance
The companies have announced an expansion of their worldwide alliance by signing a global original equipment manufacturer agreement that introduces plans to include SAP HANA delivered by HDS.
5 hybrid IT roles your business needs to succeed in 2014
We look at five modern IT roles that are key to gaining competitive business advantage
Dell opens Dubai Solutions Centre, ME GM: 'Centre belongs to CIOs'
Dell has opened its Dubai Solution Centre to help customers in the EMEA Emerging region explore, test and deploy end-to-end solutions.
Copper Cabling – Still a Viable, Cost-Effective Solution for 10 GbE Networks
Higher performance networks and 10 Gigabit ethernet is rapidly becoming a standard across the Middle East region, says Shibu Vahid, Head of Technical Operations, R&M Middle East, Turkey & Africa
Is the PaaS market that we know dying?
Cloud’s platform as a service market hasn’t even grown up yet, but already some people are saying it’s doomed.
Gulf Air completes Oracle E-Business suite upgrade to R12
Gulf Air has completed the transition of Oracle E-Business suite upgrade to R12 using the its in-house IT capabilities.
What's Next for India's Outsourcing Industry? Q&A with outgoing NASSCOM president
In the 25 years since India’s most well-known IT services trade group National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) was formed, the country’s global outsourcing industry has experienced tremendous growth, but also its share of ups and downs.
US investment firm tables $3 billion deal to take Riverbed private
Investment company Elliott Management has offered to buy WAN optimisation vendor Riverbed Technology for just over US$3 billion, while giving it a chance to entertain higher bids.
Gartner: Worldwide IT spending on track to hit $3.8 Trillion in 2014
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.1 percent increase from 2013 spending of $3.7 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.