In his first visit to an emerging market after taking over the reins at Juniper Networks, Shaygan Kheradpir sat down with us to talk about his vision for the company and strategy for the new era of IT.
Chasing shadow
Online Editor James Dartnell says shadow IT is something CIOs should use to their advantage, and should not be feared.
Seeing through the haze
Petra Heinrich, VP Partners & Alliances, Red Hat, EMEA, explains how partners can lead the discussions around cloud.
Redington Value to exhibit at GITEX 2014
After a four year gap from participating in the annual event, the company will be turning the spotlight on its diverse portfolio of advanced enterprise solutions, particularly in IT domains such as cloud computing, virtualisation, software and security, convergence and infrastructure.
The SMB play
Amanullah Khan, Regional Director, Emerging Markets, Linksys & Belkin, elaborates on the company’s strategic plans to refocus on its SMB origins.
Set for growth
Sunil Paul, Co-founder and CEO, Finesse, shares the growth strategy in place for the systems integrator.
Paving the way
Fayez Eweidat, Regional Sales Manager, MENA, Brocade, says SDN is a tremendous growth opportunity for the Middle East IT channel organisations.
IBM announces Watson Big Data enhancements
IBM has announced advances in Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities that could enable researchers to accelerate the pace of scientific breakthroughs by discovering previously unknown connections in Big Data.
Avaya and HP Enterprise Services sign comms deal
Avaya and HP Enterprise Services (ES) today announced a multi-year agreement to offer cloud-based unified communications, contact centre technology and management solutions for enterprises.
Amazon in $970 million game streaming site acquisition
Amazon will pay $970 million to acquire Twitch, a site for live video broadcasts of people’s video gaming sessions.
Confronting malware intelligently
Brian Kenyon, Chief Technology Strategist, McAfee, a part of Intel Security, follows a “define-freeze-fix” approach to eradicate malware, and is confident that his company is well positioned to deal with today’s ever-evolving threat landscape.
Fresh blue Apple
James Dartnell takes a look at what the recent Apple-IBM enterprise deal could mean for the two corporate giants.
Best of both worlds
As enterprises deploy more and more applications in the cloud, the complexity of deployment, integration and management increases. Many CIOs are finding that integrating cloud services with existing architecture is more difficult than anticipated. CNME throws the spotlight on cloud integration strategies that reduce complexity and IT oversight.
Champions of value-addition
Value-added distribution has been a buzz word in the last few years with everyone aspiring to be one. However, what constitutes to be a VAD differs from payer to player. Reseller Middle East looks into what it takes to be a true VAD.
Defending tactics
Reseller ME finds out how security channel players can be a step ahead in the highly dynamic marketplace and maintain profitability.
Setting goals
A roundup of Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference held in Washinton DC this year.
Ballmer resigns from Microsoft board
Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has resigned from the Microsoft board, citing other commitments as his key reason.
Hacker headspace
With cybercrime an ever-present danger, hackers around the world attack user data for financial and political gain. But they are not all bad. CNME takes a look at the mindset of hackers good and evil, and how they constantly ask questions of governments and top companies.
Narrowing the focus
Ramkumar B, President, Value Division, Redington Gulf, discusses the company’s plans for cloud and other focus areas for driving the business.
Samsung buys SmartThings
Samsung has agreed to buy SmartThings, a two-year-old startup that makes software to connect household objects and let them be …