While firms are up on their toes in their respective bids to take their companies to the cloud–touted to be …
Lost and found
Weekends normally mean a reprieve from a strenuous work environment but a recent trip to the movies turned out to …
Veghte given new strategy role by HP
Hewlett-Packard has added chief strategy officer to former Microsoft veteran Bill Veghte’s titles, the company announced on Tuesday. Veghte will …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …
US government CIO joins Salesforce
The U.S federal government’s first ever CIO Vivek Kundra has joined Salesforce as executive vice president of emerging markets. “Excited …
Existing industry models will be challenged through 2015: Gartner
Enterprises have difficult and challenging times ahead, and need to adapt to new technologies to remain competitive in the upcoming …
Outlook 2012, Demand transformation
2011 was a year to reckon with for the Middle East IT industry, because of the impact of the worldwide …
Google appoints VMWare’s former CEO to its board
Google has appointed Diane Greene, a co-founder and former CEO of VMware, to its board of directors and audit committee. …
Global construction group to deploy Microsoft
Global engineering and construction group Kentz is implementing Microsoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) system to support business development, help track …
Outllook 2012, IT’s biggest transformation
We are now experiencing one of the biggest waves of IT transformation in history. Cloud is part of it and …
Outlook 2012, Application explosion
IT environments in the Middle East are becoming increasingly complicated and the number of applications to manage is exploding. Virtualisation, …
Outlook 2012, Government up, corporate down
Desktop virtualisation and cloud technologies will further penetrate into all sizes of enterprise and into new industry sectors. We will …
Outlook 2012, Nations and networks
Gulf markets are leapfrogging developed economies by embracing new business models and technologies to achieve their social and economic goals. …
Outlook 2012, Reading the cards
Microsoft will begin to dominate new networking and technology areas by increasing its share of unified communication and voice over …
Oracle’s big data appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance product, which began shipping Tuesday , gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache …
Spend on enterprise network equipment to grow in 2012
Spending on enterprise network equipment will grow by 8.7% in 2012, as companies continue to turn to enterprise mobility, video …
Messaging security market to touch $4.78b by 2015:IDC
The messaging security market will grow to $4.78 billion in 2015, according to research firm IDC, but enterprises will favour …
Cisco and Etisalat sign strategic MOU
(Left to Right) Etisalat Group CEO, HE Ahmad Abdul Karim Julfar and Cisco’s Senior Vice President for Emerging Markets, Duncan …
CIO=supply chain manager
A few years back, only a large company could afford sophisticated back-office and front-office automation. Whether it was SAP, Siebel, …
March to megapixel
Despite the global economic downturn the market for IP video surveillance cameras and other associated equipments seem to have remained …