ESET was founded in 1992 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Its flagship product Smart Security has an installed base of over …
EMEA enterprise IT spend will decline: Gartner
Enterprise IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will reach €604 billion in 2011, a 1.4% decline …
HDS to release converged computing platform for SAP
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced a new converged platform alongside SAP that will help users manage and analyse massive amounts …
Small businesses stuck in IT ‘dark age’: Intel
A shortage of money, combined with a lack of technical expertise, is keeping half of small businesses in a technology …
Calxeda’s chip boosts ARM’s server fight with Intel
Calxeda recently announced its EnergyCore, an integrated server chip with an ARM processor that could provide the groundwork for ARM …
Socialising for intelligence
Ten years ago, Logicalis, a systems integrator, would have needed a wiretap to overhear the grumblings of a competitor’s dissatisfied …
Back to school
The application of IT is not only transforming the way students learn, but also the way they are being taught. …
A solutions company
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell outlines the company’s aggressive plans to grow its portfolio of solutions by acquiring more intellectual …
Brocade once again for sale?
Two years after attempting to find a suitable buyer, storage switch and router maker Brocade Communications may again be looking …
Facebook data centre project takes aim at vendor lock-in
By launching the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardise the market for …
Brocade on sale again?
Two years after attempting to find a suitable buyer, storage switch and router maker Brocade Communications may again be looking …
SAP appoints Qais Gharaibeh as UAE MD
Commenting on Ghairabeh’s appointment, Alkharrat said, “The UAE represents a strategic priority for SAP, with businesses across the country seeking …
Citrix expands on BYOD message at Citrix Synergy 2011
The start of Citrix’s Synergy Summit 2011 yesterday in Barcelona, Spain, saw Mark Templeton, CEO of the company, introduce the …
Businesses unable to analyse 90% of their data: IBM
IBM has warned of a major data analysis problem among big businesses, with many unable to interpret over 90% of …
Turning a new leaf
CIOs in the Middle East still struggle to give green ICT investments a business language, and this is hampering the …
Critical connections
KSA’s Jarir Bookstore battled the challenges associated with connecting disparate centres of business by deploying SonicWALL’s NSA Series and building …
EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage
EMC held its user forum last week and used the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualisation and the …
Cisco plans free telepresence client
Cisco Systems is taking several steps to extend its TelePresence videoconferencing technology beyond enterprise meeting rooms, introducing two endpoints and …
Oracle buys RightNow for $1.5bn
Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service …
Salesforce.com to ‘unlock’ SAP’s core software for ‘social enterprises’
Salesforce.com is rolling out a set of consulting and integration services aimed at SAP customers who want to build a …