The year 2012 is dominated by three key trends – cloud, virtualisation and big data. These may be revolutionising the …
“We are hungry”
Nidal Abou-Ltaif, the swashbuckling lead of communications and networking major Avaya in the region, talks about how the Middle East …
Dell buys application modernisation firm Clerity
Dell announced yesterday it has purchased application modernisation vendor Clerity Solutions, in its second enterprise software-related acquisition this week. On …
Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ still suffering low adoption
Although it’s been over half a year since Google unveiled Android 4.0 (“Ice Cream Sandwich”), the platform has been adopted by just …
Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive
Hitachi’s former disk-drive division today announced what it said is the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive. The drive has …
We’re no longer just WAN optimisation: Riverbed
Riverbed Technology wants the enterprise IT market to know that it is no longer just a networking company providing WAN …
4 critical trends in IT business continuity
In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organisations have made it a high priority to develop and implement …
Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology
Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualisation offerings, …
BYOD Troubleshoot: Security and Cost-Savings
A few months ago, a Hungarian man got a hold of a business executive’s personal mobile device containing corporate customer …
Oracle buys ClearTrial
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, a leading provider of cloud-based clinical trial operations (CTO) applications, it …
Oracle buys ClearTrial
Oraclet has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, a provider of cloud-based Clinical Trial Operations (CTO) applications that make …
Avnet to offer QLogic networking solutions in MEA
Avnet Technology Solutions today announced an extended distribution agreement with QLogic, which will involve it offering QLogic’s 10Gb Ethernet, fibre …
And the winner is…
If you haven’t put together an awards programme like ours, let me give you the run-down on what really goes …
Red Hat reports fiscal year results
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and …
Google launches e-discovery option for Apps suite
Google is now offering customers of its Apps for Business communications and collaboration suite an optional service that automatically captures, …
SuccessFactors offers free version of Jam software in hit against Salesforce.com
SAP’s SuccessFactors subsidiary is rolling out a version of its Jam social collaboration platform at no charge to all users, …
Axed Microsoft’s tablet concept reborn as iPad app
Microsoft killed the Courier tablet concept in favor of Windows 8 tablets, but the idea behind it has now found a new …
AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million
AOL decommissioned almost 10,000 servers and saved itself $5 million along the way to winning a contest that highlights the …
Lenovo debuts App Shop for larger businesses
Lenovo announced an enterprise-focused app storefront for tablets running Android 3.1 or higher. The Lenovo Enterprise App Shop offers larger …
Filling the gaps
The noticeable gap between the IT skills needed and those that are currently available in the market got Pallavi Sharma …