Amr Refaat, General Manager, IBM Middle East and Pakistan, talks managing big data and what big data trends will mean …
The big solution
In a time when economic uncertainty still hangs over much of the world, technology resellers are struggling with declining margins …
A smarter world
IBM is a special brand in the IT world. It’s home to over 433,000 employees worldwide and one of the …
Brocade launches Fabric Vision SAN solution technology
Brocade today announced its new Fabric Vision technology, a hardware and software SAN solution. The company claims that the product …
Huawei signs Optimus as VAD
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications on Monday announced that it had signed a value-added distribution agreement with Huawei that will see …
Apple praised over two-step authentication roll-out
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure …
Citrix upgrades Podio, ShareFile apps
Citrix Systems has upgraded its Podio applications for Android and iOS, as well as the ShareFile app for the latter, …
Stepping up to the China plate
Ericsson’s telecoms dominance just about withstood the rising force of China-based Huawei at Mobile World Congress, but the Koreans took …
You only live twice
With an ever-increasing data volume but by no means an ever-increasing IT budget, businesses are facing a tough task in …
Selling to SMBs
Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) represent an important element in the business ecosystem of the Middle East. Industry analysts predict …
Red Hat announces 13-city EMEA tour
Red Hat last week announced that it is set to host a 13-city tour of one-day events throughout Europe and …
Redington Value to distribute VMware in Africa
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, has been appointed as a VMware distributor in WECA, marking a …
Optimus becomes Master Training Partner for CSA
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications on Tuesday announced that the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has named the value-added distributor as a …
Telepresence of mind for ROI
The most important question on the mind of every CIO when pitching a project to senior management revolves entirely around …
State of flux
The sixth edition of IDC’s Middle East CIO Summit had a strong sense of urgency to it. From the nature …
Seagate launches Wireless Plus and Central hard drives
Seagate on Monday launched two new wireless hard drives for the Middle Eastern consumer market, the Wireless Plus and the …
Seagate launches Wireless Plus and Central hard drives
Seagate on Monday launched two new wireless hard drives for the Middle Eastern consumer market, the Wireless Plus and the …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
ARIS 9.0 launched at CeBit
Software AG last week announced the availability of ARIS 9.0 at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The vendor …
Virtually unstoppable – VMware: We’re miles ahead
“It’s nice to have competition,” says the senior director of VMware’s pre-sales division, Herve Renault. He sits in Grosvenor House …