Reseller ME chats with Matt Haynes, Director, WW Channel Strategy for Hosted Cloud Services, Microsoft and Karim Kalaawi, Hosting Lead, Middle East and Africa Headquarters, Microsoft on the company’s hosting services.
Dell launches virtual storage accelerator
Dell has released a new virtualised storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load.
Gartner: Top 10 mobile technologies and capabilities
Nick Jones, Vice President and Analyst, Gartner, shares the research firm’s top 10 mobile technologies and capabilities that organisations must master in 2015 and 2016.
Dawn of a new era
Held at HKCEC, the eleventh edition of Hong Kong spring electronics fair and the International ICT expo concluded last week, with exhibitors and visitors from all over the world coming together to see the latest products and technologies in these fields. Read on for an overview of the event.
Engaging in real time
Pierre Fricke, Director of Product Marketing, Integration and BPM, Red Hat, discusses how retailers need to develop their IT capabilities in order to engage with customers from a holistic viewpoint.
Data centres: Why build when you can outsource?
Datacentre outsourcing has become a growing trend, with many large enterprises embracing the financial and operational benefits associated with it, says Sachin Bhardwaj, Director, Marketing & Business Development, eHosting DataFort.
IBM profit falls on weak hardware sales and transition costs
Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM’s profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.
Oracle identifies products affected by Heartbleed
Oracle has issued a comprehensive list of its software that may or may not be affected by the OpenSSL (secure sockets layer) vulnerability known as Heartbleed, while warning that no fixes are yet available for some likely affected products.
Busting SDN myths
Software-defined networking (SDN) is the hottest thing going today, but there is considerable confusion surrounding everything from the definition of the term to the different architectures and technologies suppliers are putting forward.
HTH Worldwide selects Cognizant to build mobile healthcare solutions
Cognizant has announced that it is working with HTH Worldwide, a global technology-based health services and information company, to enable its members to maximise the use of mobile technology for managing healthcare needs more effectively while travelling abroad.
New avenues for growth
Reseller ME explores how partners can gain a competitive advantage by embracing software-defined networking (SDN) solutions.
Listening to the channel
Martin Gibbons, Director of Distribution EMEA, CommVault, explains channel initiatives and business focus for the company in the current year.
IBM celebrates mainframe birthday
IBM yesterday hosted its Mainframe50 event, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the System/360 mainframe.
The promise of SDN
In partnership with CNME, delegates from Brocade hosted a roundtable at Jumeirah Emirates Towers on 24th March, which gathered a select group of IT leaders from around the region to discuss the future of Software Defined Networking and Ethernet Fabric.
Kingdom connect
Saudi Arabian Airlines have provisioned a $1 billion deal to implement the IT infrastructure for King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia. James Dartnell reports from the development to find out how the airline’s privatised IT arm aims to inspire the next generation of Saudis.
Cisco reveals OpenFlow SDN killer
Cisco is this week unveiling an alternative to OpenFlow for software-defined networking and proposing it as a standard, while adding it as a vital component of the company’s new programmable architecture.
Citrix appoints Logicom as Middle East VAD
Citrix has announced the appointment of Logicom as its second value added distributor in the Middle East region.
Apple demands over $2B from Samsung for patent infringement
Samsung should pay more than $2 billion for repeated infringement of Apple patents in more than 37 million smartphones sold in the U.S., a Silicon Valley jury was told Tuesday as a trial between the two companies began after more than two years of preparation.
To your health
SEHA’s move from a paper-based record system to the new Malaffi electronic medical record system was no small feat. The system delivers a completely integrated system and is considered a large implementation by international standards.
Integrating with best practices
Given the rapid development of Data integration technologies over the last decade, it is difficult to know what the best practices are for each DI technique. Additionally, the desire to integrate quickly to keep up with the growing trend has some enterprises sacrificing quality data integration for quick implementation.