Govind Haridas, security and storage business unit manager at Aptec Distribution

Microsoft to invest in growing Chinese market
Microsoft has said it is increasing its investment in China as it looks to take advantage of the growing market. …

Gartner: BYOD heralds biggest economic shift in computing since PCs
Bring your own device (BYOD) programmes have provided the most radical shift in the economics of client computing for …

Google ‘still not for corporates’ say IT heads
Heads of IT are claiming that Google is “still not a corporate contender” with its apps and services, according to …

Symantec: Windows 8 ‘doesn’t move the needle’ on security
Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus …

IBM launches unified online marketing service
IBM has combined a number of its online marketing software programmes into a unified service, called the IBM Marketing Centre. …

Salesforce.com drops bid to trademark ‘social enterprise’
Salesforce.com has decided to withdraw its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise” following objections from social organisations who held …

EMC issues ‘business war cry’ for big data future
Said Akar, District Manager, EMC, declared a ‘business war cry’ at today’s EMC Day 2012 event, urging enterprises to prepare …

Hitachi increases focus on big data, ‘social innovation’
Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to …

Windows Server 2012 embraces the data centre
Microsoft has taken its server OS a giant step forward with yesterday’s release of Windows Server 2012, making this version …
Sophos appoints Kris Hagerman CEO
Sophos today announced that Kris Hagerman will become the company’s new CEO effective immediately, and will join the company’s board. He succeeds Steve Munford, who will become Non-Executive Chairman of the board.

International law on cyber attacks examined in new manual
A cyber security think tank has published a manual studying how international law applies to conflicts in cyberspace, where the …
Red Hat to kick off Partner Road Tour
Red Hat announced that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences, kicking off in Stockholm, Sweden.The agenda for this tour has been designed specifically for business leaders, sales, pre-sales and business development representatives from Red Hat’s channel ecosystem in EMEA

Red Hat and partners hit the road for conference tour
Red Hat announced today that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences alongside IBM and Symantec, kicking …

Data across borders
Today’s digital economy is heavily driven by the ability to seamlessly transfer enormous volumes of data around the world. However, …

5 key points from Workday’s IPO filing
The enterprise software market on suddenly got an intimate look inside Workday, a red-hot startup that makes cloud applications for …

Amazon improves developer friendliness of storage service
Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to build web applications …
EMC offers Velocity Distribution Partners new assembly services capabilities
EMC provisions EMC Velocity distributors with the skills and resources required to assemble multi-vendor solutions that feature EMC’s unified storage systems and next-generation backup solutions

Dell and VMware team up on rack-mountable system
Dell and VMware will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure …

HTC reveals Android smartphone with Dropbox storage
HTC has launched the Desire X, which has integrated cloud storage and a camera that can shoot video and take …


