Citrix has announced the appointment of Johnny Karam as its new Vice President for Middle East and Africa.

Three-year-old OpenStack ready to move into enterprise data centres, says Rackspace
OpenStack has grown into a true enterprise proposition, according to Rackspace VP of Technology and Products, Nigel Beighton.
Issues and opportunities
Given the record number of attendees at this year’s Reseller Middle East Partner Excellence Conference, it was clear that the region’s channel players wanted to hear how to tackle new challenges.
Everything and all
Cisco is in the hefty transition between networking giant and total IT company. At Cisco Live! 2013 in Florida, it claimed the vehicle to get it there will be a new business group and partner ecosystem revolved around the ‘Internet of Everything’. Ben Rossi reports.

Big opportunities
Big Data is being touted as a big opportunity for the channel to make mega bucks. Should you jump onto …

Internet of Everything to generate $613bn profits in 2013
The ‘Internet of Everything’ (IoE) is expected to enable global private-sector businesses to generate at least $613 billion in global …

Middle East in dire need of skilled IT pros, says CompTIA study
Middle Eastern businesses want to invest in IT during 2013, but they’re struggling to find skilled candidates to fill posts, according to new research released by CompTIA, a non-profit association for the IT industry.

Oracle releases Java EE 7 with eye on HTML5 development
Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application …

Gartner: 7 major trends forcing IT security pros to change
Enterprises are under heavy pressure to change their approach to IT security because of a “nexus of forces” that include …

IBM to acquire SoftLayer Technologies
IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. The acquisition …
StorIT signs distribution deal with Supermicro
StorIT has signed a distribution agreement with Supermicro Computer, a server, storage technology and green computing company. According to the …

Software AG buys alfabet AG for IT portfolio management software
Software AG has signed a deal to acquire IT portfolio management software vendor alfabet AG, and plans to combine the …

Etisalat ICT Forum: Broader than broadband
When you’ve built yourself up to become one of the Middle East and Africa’s largest telecoms operators, it can be …

IT Transformation is Key to Business Growth, says Dell
Enterprises must innovate and adapt to the emerging trends, or be left behind. This was the message imparted by IT …
Brocade appoints new country manager for Saudi
In an effort to drive its business expansion in the Middle East, Brocade has appointed networking industry veteran Dr Cherif …

The growing role of network performance management
Brent Lees, Senior Product Marketing Manager, EMEA, Riverbed Technology Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch …

Computerlinks becomes Middle East distributor for Trend Micro
Computerlinks today announced that it has become a distributor for Trend Micro in the Middle East to address increasing customer …

Salesforce.com to buy Clipboard, shutting down service
Salesforce.com is to acquire Clipboard, a Web clipping and sharing service, and is closing down the service. Clipboard decided to …
Comstor signs distribution agreement with Panduit
Comstor on Sunday announced that it had signed a contract with Panduit Corp. for the distribution of a number of …

Amazon Web Services will continue to disrupt enterprises, IT vendors
As I recently noted, much of the IT industry detests Amazon Web Services, with VMware in the lead. In my own …