Salesforce.com announced yesterday a deal with Twitter that will give the enterprise cloud computing company access to Twitter’s “firehose” feed of public …
Pieceable mobile team joins Facebook
Facebook is expanding its mobile know-how by hiring the team behind Pieceable Viewer, a mobile service that allows iOS app …
Juniper guns for Cisco again with smaller QFabric
Juniper this week unveiled a version of its fabric switches for mid-sized data centres and also increased the scalability of its …
Apple sets OS X Mountain Lion release for July
Apple said today that it would ship OS X 10.8, or Mountain Lion, next month, for $19.99, a 33% price …
Juniper guns for Cisco with smaller QFabric
Juniper this week unveiled a version of its fabric switches for mid-sized data centres and also increased the scalability of its …
Alfalak introduces Microsoft Office 365 in Saudi Arabia
Alfalak Electronic Equipment and Supplies Company, a provider of technology-based end-to-end solutions in the Middle East, has announced that it …
SanDisk launches Lightning PCI Express SSA cards for the enterprise
SanDisk Corporation, a provider of flash memory storage solutions, today introduced Lightning PCI Express (PCIe) Solid State Accelerator (SSA) cards …
Comendo and Bulwark Technologies host E-mail security forum
Comendo FZ , an E-mail security and backup provider along with Bulwark Technologies, a value added distributor of IT security …
Microsoft opens Azure to IaaS, Linux
Microsoft unveiled new capabilities for Azure that move the cloud offering from a platform as a service into the competitive landscape …
Citrix moves into mobile network optimisation with Bytemobile buyout
Citrix is moving into the mobile network optimisation market with its announced purchase of Bytemobile. Bytemobile specialises in making data …
HP and Oracle, now headed for a split, could have split up Sun
One of the more surprising episodes in HP and Oracle’s ill-fated enterprise IT partnership was touched upon for only a …
Fabric-based computing could cost IT operations jobs, Gartner warns
Enterprise adoption of new technologies such as fabric-based computing, smartphones and tablets could put IT operations managers out of a …
Intertec Systems partners with vendors to display latest solutions at MECC 2012
Enghouse Interactive, a provider of multi-channel contact centres, joined forces with IT systems integrator and solutions provider, Intertec Systems, to …
VMware calls on EMEA SMBs to win $20,000 worth of software, services
VMware will award one small or midsize business $20,000 worth of software and services in a competition it is launching …
HP releases 100TB/hr backup system
Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced new deduplication tools for its StoreOnce family of backup appliances that enable performance of up to 100TB per hour and data …
IBM adds inline compression, other upgrades, to storage systems
IBM yesterday unveiled upgrades to its line of storage products that it said adds more support for cloud technologies. For instance …
Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media in $689 million deal
Salesforce.com is acquiring social media marketing firm Buddy Media in a US$689 million cash and stock deal, the companies announced …
Eye on the game
Axis Communications is gearing up for explosive growth in the global video surveillance market. During his recent trip to Dubai, …
Virtual Bridges partners with GBM to bring latest solutions to the GCC
Virtual Bridges and Gulf Business Machines (GBM) have announced a partnership to deliver Virtual Bridges Verde virtual desktop management and …
SAP survey highlights game changing strategic agenda
SAP partners from across the Gulf region reiterated their commitment to delivering and implementing cutting-edge software solutions at a recent …