A recent Yankee Group survey about enterprise use of IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offerings found that once companies start using such services, …
Intel to acquire McAfee
In terms of the deal, in which Intel will buy all of McAfee’s common stock for $48 per share in …
NetApp revenue grows 36% in Q1
Data storage vendor NetApp reported today on its revenue for the first quarter of 2011, stating total product sales grew …
On the centre stage
NWME: X86 virtualisation was once a revolutionary technology. But now, hypervisor is fast becoming a commodity. What is your differentiation? …
Skills and training
Chandan Mehta, product manager at Fujitsu Technology Systems in the region The Middle East has traditionally and for many years, …
Off centre
HP Critical Facility Services customer project manager Kevin Miller For businesses that choose to outsource their data centre requirements, there …
Virtual world
Mohammed Thameem Rizvon,Group IT manager, Kamal Osman Jamjoom Have you implemented virtualisation solutions in your enterprise? If so, what …
Molding the Future
In the world of enterprise software, there are but a handful of “rock star” analysts who cover the industry well, …
Overpowering Pirates
Enterprises across the Middle East risk damaging their businesses through the use of pirated software, with an estimated two-thirds of …
Lenovo weighs in on Think netbook
The popularity of netbooks has been so appealing that Chinese PC powerhouse Lenovo is weighing in on the options of …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
A datacentre with that server?
Faced with the continued commoditisation of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward …
Striking back
It can’t be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft’s chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill …
Reviving ERP
Everybody knows it. The major ERP suites are old and not as flexible as some newer stuff, and they can’t build …
Doorstep delivery
SaaS is riding the wave of cloud computing and is increasing in popularity among Middle East enterprises. However, …
NetApp and Intel lead evolution to 10G unified Ethernet networking
NetApp has announced it will support the Intel Ethernet X520 family of SFP+10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server adapters. This extends …
WAN optimisation goes virtual
While the benefits of WAN optimisation are well documented-better application performance, cost reductions and bandwidth savings, to name a few- …
Cisco vs Juniper
The argument began in 1996 with Juniper's founding; until then, Cisco had ruled the router roost in both the enterprise …
Aiming high
At the Brocade Technology Day in New York, the company took the wraps off its blueprint for stitching together storage …