UBIFRANCE, the French export-support agency, will present 25 companies at GITEX, where they will each showcase their innovative digital products as part of the French pavilion.
French companies to participate at GITEX
French export-support agency UBIFRANCE has said it will be presenting 25 French companies at this year’s GITEX event at the …
Oracle and Xsigo join forces
Oracle has confirmed a deal to acquire Xsigo Systems in an attempt to extend its virtualisation capabilities, the company announced …
India sees large IT investment increase
The Indian SME segment has seen its IT spending largely increase in the last two years, contributing towards 38% of …
Worldwide bank IT spending to continue growing through 2015
Worldwide bank IT spending is forecast to grow, with a 5.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to a recently …
Microsoft blames Azure outage on a configuration error
A system configuration mistake caused the outage that affected Windows Azure customers in western Europe last week, according to Microsoft. …
Google dumps more products
Google continues purging its product roster of services and applications that it considers redundant or obsolete, deciding now to axe …
SAP MENA appoints new lead for Saudi Arabia
SAP MENA has announced the appointment of Ahmed Jaber Al-Faifi to the role of MD for Saudi Arabia. Reporting directly …
Yammer software gauges emotions in employee posts
Yammer is adding functionality to its cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software that lets organisations gauge the types of emotions expressed …
Rackspace OpenStack will target Amazon customers
Rackspace has announced that it will launch its open source infrastructure-as-a-service platform, OpenStack, in mid-August in the UK, where it …
Salesforce.com CEO Benioff joins Cisco's board
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has been named to Cisco’s board of directors, Cisco announced Thursday. “Marc has changed the face …
SAP and DSOA unveil plans for an IT training and development institute in the UAE
SAP and Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority yesterday announced plans to launch a training and development institute in the UAE. At …
IBM announces updated security appliance
IBM has announced a new network security appliance to help deal with increasing threats posed by social media sites and malicious websites. …
Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack
Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into …
Salesforce.com hit again by performance issues
Salesforce.com was hit by another in a string of performance problems yesterday, with the issues this time centered on its …
SAP unveils IT training facility
SAP has collaborated with Dubai Silicon Oasis to create a new IT training and development institute designed to boost local …
Gulf Business Machines to offer IBM PureSystems Technology Demonstrator
Gulf Business Machines (GBM), a prominent IT solutions provider, recently announced the launch of the first IBM PureSystems technology demonstrator …
Playing catch-up
As infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models gain popularity in the U.S. and Western Europe, adoption amongst Middle East enterprises remains low. …
Data centre design boasts 'world's most efficient cooling system'
A new kind of data centre claiming to employ “the world’s most efficient cooling system” turns the traditionally unbearable “hot aisle” between server racks …
IBM attempts to redefine the IPS
IBM yesterday introduced what it’s calling a “next generation” intrusion-prevention system (IPS), an offering that not only is designed to …