The past year has given enough reason for regional enterprises to begin investing in a robust business continuity (BC) and …
New mega data centre in India among world’s largest
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data centre in India that it says is the largest in …
Organised for speed
The UAE-based Al Shirawi Group is one of the largest manufacturing, engineering, distribution, contracting and services industries conglomerates in the …
Dell forms new software division, names former CEO as head
Dell has announced it is forming a software group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the …
CommVault unveils new Simpana software
At its SolveForward 2012 event, CommVault unveiled new, next-generation singular information management innovations that further empower Simpana software customers to …
They offer a name plate, we offer a solution: Infor VP
Oracle and SAP are “looking over their shoulder” as Infor gains ground on them in the Middle East enterprise software …
ME users respond better to our integrated apps: Miranda, Fusion apps
Oracle has seen a higher response rate to its Fusion applications in the Middle East than any other regions, says …
VMTurbo upgrade supports virtualisation platforms
VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool. With …
CIO IT spending to increase in MEA: Survey
IT spending in the Middle East and Africa will increase by 14% as the role of technology in business grows, …
On the lookout
It might be just another year in the technology evolution chain, but vendors believe that 2012 will bring with it …
Do and re-do
Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look …
Big Data drives demand for database skills: Study
The growing amount of structured and unstructured data being processed by businesses is driving a demand for more database skills, …
Google, Microsoft and Facebook battle to end bogus email
Google, Microsoft and Facebook are amongst the major internet companies that have announced a new specification to streamline the way …
King Faisal Specialist Hospital opts for Dell’s virtualisation solution
Internationally recognised hospital and the biggest research facility in Saudi Arabia, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, has selected …
Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service
Salesforce.com today unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through …
Microsoft sets Office 15 public beta for summer
The motions have been set for the new version of Microsoft’s Office suite, as the company yesterday announced the beginning …
Tilera reveals new 36-core chip
Tilera today announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from …
Ultrabook shipments will grow at three times rate of tablets: Research
Ultrabooks will grow three times the rate of tablets over the next five years, according to analyst firm, Juniper Research. …
CIO 50 event: Top CIOs brought together to honour their IT progress
The CIO 50 Awards and Forum commenced this morning at the Address Hotel in Dubai Marina. The event, organised by …
Cisco to unify collaboration products
Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their …