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 …

Securing wireless networks
When it comes to ensuring 24/7 security and compliance monitoring of corporate Wi-Fi networks, straightforward business economics demands the need …

HP unveils all-SSD option for 3PAR storage array
Hewlett-Packard is extending its 3PAR enterprise storage offerings with an all-SSD version of the P10000 array. The all-SSD (solid-state disk) …

Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
Oracle said yesterday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will …

Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a …
Steady direction
Logicom Dubai has experienced exponential growth since its inception.

New tools can crack PPTP encryption in under a day
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any …

Huawei records $16bn sales revenue in H1
Huawei recorded sales revenue of $16.16 billion in the first half of 2012, a 5.1% increase over the first half …

Consumer tech market to hit $2.1 trillion in 2012
Consumers worldwide are projected to spend some spend $2.1 trillion in 2012 on digital information and entertainment products, such as …

Optimus and Bitdefender organise ‘Readiness Program’ for resellers
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications, a regional value added distributor (VAD) of IT and telecommunications products and its vendor partner, Bitdefender …

Apple opens up lead on Android in enterprise mobile app dev
Apple’s iOS mobile platform has amassed a substantial lead over Google’s Android when it comes to which platform developers prefer …