SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced yesterday. Ariba’s platform focuses on business-to-business commerce …
EMC acquires Syncplicity
At EMC World 2012, EMC announced yesterday that it has acquired privately held Syncplicity, a leader in cloud-based file management …
Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management
As Avaya continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing …
Focus on research
EBTIC is working to create a self-sustained ICT community in the UAE by encouraging a focus on research and innovation. …
Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management
As Avaya continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing …
EMC announces largest ever wave of products at EMC World 2012
At EMC World 2012, EMC Corporation today introduced its largest-ever wave of new transformative products and technologies–42 in total. Today’s …
EMC World 2012 to host 13,000 customers
EMC Corporation will host more than 13,000 customers, partners, technologists, press, bloggers and analysts at its 12th annual EMC World …
Twice as many SMBs will be heavily virtualised by 2014, say EMEA resellers
VMware, a provider of virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions, has announced that the EMEA solution provider channel is seeing SMBs …
Choice partner
CNME asked CIOs to name and explain the elements that they believed made for a strong partnership. Here’s what they …
Getting trends-as-a-service
There has been a shift towards management software in recent years, particularly as companies attempt to get to grips with …
Yahoo launches big data analytics tool for online advertisers
Yahoo today launched a new tool for online advertisers designed to take advantage of the company’s extensive experience with big …
End to end: The security story
The security landscape is rapidly evolving. We speak to distributors and vendors in the region to learn how they are …
Huawei welcomes Leasecon to partner community
Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced today that Leasecon WLL is the latest partner to …
SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services
SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the companies …
Epicor to host global customer conference in Las Vegas
Epicor Software Corporation said that it will soon be hosting the largest global customer conference in the company’s 40-year history. …
Facebook's open-source data centre project gains strength
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
Salesforce.com acquires collaboration tool company Stypi
Salesforce.com has acquired real-time online collaboration platform company Stypi, it announced yesterday. The financial terms of the deal were not …
IDC: Data centres increasingly overwhelmed by business demand
Businesses are struggling to ensure their data centres cope with demand, according to analyst house IDC. Chris Ingle, an associate …
Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Satyam and CA Technologies sign global partnership
Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam have announced that they have signed a Global Framework Agreement (GFA) with CA Technologies, a …
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in big data analytics
Startups and small companies are stealing a march on their larger enterprise counterparts by employing analytics at the heart of …