The former general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Phone developer platform started a new job at Amazon on Monday, leading a …
Seagate to hold Middle East Partner Conference
Seagate announced on Monday that it is set to host its annual Middle East Partner Conference on Wednesday, April 3, …
Dell eyes ARM supercomputers of the future
Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces …
Massive DDoS overhyped by media, says website watcher
Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so …
Mobile virtualisation on the rise – Forrester
Forrester Research predicts that with the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, the approach to …
Citrix: Enterprise market favours iOS
iOS continues to lead in the enterprise space as the mobile platform of choice, according to cloud computing vendor, Citrix. In …
Mega DDoS attacks on the rise – Kaspersky
DDoS attacks like the one that resulted from an altercation between a Dutch company and Spamhaus this week are on …
‘People are buying dumb storage’
At Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hu Yoshida is the CTO responsible for defining the company’s technical direction. For everybody else, …
BYOD on the rise at Intel
Intel says its rapidly expanding bring-your-own-device programme has been a resounding success that delivered about 5 million hours of productivity …
The new era of big data management: Analytics
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 …