Huawei Enterprise is poised to host its first regional Partner Summit in Dubai on 19th March 2012, welcoming representatives from …
Virtualisation will be universal business practise: GBM
Pappu Rao, director of technology services at Gulf Business Machines, says all of GBM’s 160 completed virtualisation projects have succeeded …
SafeNet acquires Cryptocard
SafeNet has acquired Cryptocard, a privately held leader of cloud based authentication solutions, in a move to broaden its authentication …
Infor launches first ERP app tied to Salesforce.com
Infor on Monday launched Inforce Everywhere, the first in a series of planned software products that will tie its ERP …
Ciena unveils optical networking ‘game changer’
Network specialist Ciena Corporation today announced WaveLogic 3, the industry’s first software-programmable coherent technology that scales to 400 Gb/s. Ciena …
Global Knowledge wins VMware top honours
Global Knowledge has been named the recipient of a Global VMware Partner Network Award in the Training (VATC) Partner of …
Global Knowldge wins VMware top honours
Global Knowledge has been named the recipient of a Global VMware Partner Network Award in the Training (VATC) Partner of …
Smart recovery
When AW Rostamani, the family owned conglomerate, decided to set up a disaster recovery (DR) site, it found its partner …
Microsoft courts big data market with SQL Server update
Microsoft has released to manufacturing the newest version of its relational database, SQL Server 2012, the company announced yesterday. The …
Sophos partners with Egnyte
IT security and data protection company Sophos, and Egnyte, a leading provider of hybrid cloud file server solutions,have announced the integration of …
AMD’s acquisition of SeaMicro puts Intel on the defensive
Intel suffered a setback in the server market with the news that its former partner, SeaMicro, is being acquired by …
Companies struggling to fill mainframe skills gap
Companies are struggling to fill the skills shortage in mainframe development as existing staff retire and IT students are put …
AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 mn, enters server hardware business
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a surprise move that puts AMD in …
UAE government pro managed IT services
eHosting Data Fort (eHDF) and Emirates eGovernment today organised a special forum titled ‘Managed IT Services for Government’. At the …
Spectrami to distribute security solutions from Microdasys, Tenable Network Security, Fastpasscorp
Spectrami announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Microdasys to distribute a wide range of enterprise security solutions in …
MEA enterprise IT spending to grow 6.3%: Gartner
Middle East and Africa enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to reach 70 billion Euros in 2012, …
Ericsson enters data centre market
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Ericssonis launching its new offering for building and optimising data centres. This is …
CIO role will eventually cease to exist, claim CFOs
The position of CIO could disappear from the business landscape within five years’ time, according to nearly one in five …
Whitman gives HP harsh report card, outlines recovery plan
Hewlett-Packard has underinvested in its business and become “too complex and too slow,” President and CEO Meg Whitman said yesterday, …
Top 5 information management and backup trend predictions for 2012: Symantec
“Backup Fights Back in 2012” You can’t call backup boring anymore. Data is exploding year on year. The backup market …