Salesforce.com has decided to withdraw its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise” following objections from social organisations who held …
EMC issues ‘business war cry’ for big data future
Said Akar, District Manager, EMC, declared a ‘business war cry’ at today’s EMC Day 2012 event, urging enterprises to prepare …
Red Hat to kick off Partner Road Tour
Red Hat announced that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences, kicking off in Stockholm, Sweden.The agenda for this tour has been designed specifically for business leaders, sales, pre-sales and business development representatives from Red Hat’s channel ecosystem in EMEA
Red Hat and partners hit the road for conference tour
Red Hat announced today that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences alongside IBM and Symantec, kicking …
Data across borders
Today’s digital economy is heavily driven by the ability to seamlessly transfer enormous volumes of data around the world. However, …
Dulsco anticipates higher demand for IT professionals in Q4 2012
A report by Dulsco HR Solutions found a 11.8% increase in the demand for skilled IT manpower in the new digital media field and expects that the demand will increase significantly in the fourth quarter
Digital media increases demand for IT specialists
The sudden increase in the number of digital media companies offering social media, internet marketing and cloud computing solutions in …
Out with old school
With the world of technology changing constantly, it is difficult for universities to keep producing IT graduates that are sufficiently …
BYOD doesn’t have to be a headache
The BYOD trend is fast gaining in the traction in the Middle East. Ramzi Itani, channel and alliance director – MENA believes this trend is making VARs sit up and take notice in order to effectively secure multiple devices across their own organisations as well as those of their customers.
EMC unveils enhanced backup and recovery software
EMC today announced the release of its new Networker Unified Backup and Recovery Software, Networker 8.0. The developments include a …
25 French companies to participate in GITEX 2012
UBIFRANCE, the French export-support agency, will present 25 companies at GITEX, where they will each showcase their innovative digital products as part of the French pavilion.
French companies to participate at GITEX
French export-support agency UBIFRANCE has said it will be presenting 25 French companies at this year’s GITEX event at the …
Salesforce.com CEO Benioff joins Cisco's board
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has been named to Cisco’s board of directors, Cisco announced Thursday. “Marc has changed the face …
Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack
Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into …
Playing catch-up
As infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models gain popularity in the U.S. and Western Europe, adoption amongst Middle East enterprises remains low. …
Data centre design boasts 'world's most efficient cooling system'
A new kind of data centre claiming to employ “the world’s most efficient cooling system” turns the traditionally unbearable “hot aisle” between server racks …
Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
Oracle said yesterday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will …
Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a …
Steady direction
Logicom Dubai has experienced exponential growth since its inception.
IBM services, hardware revenue falls, while profit grows
For its most recent financial quarter, IBM experienced a drop-off in revenue, though it was able to maintain profit growth. …