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 …
Lenovo launches hybrid of ultrabook and tablet
Lenovo got in on the ultrabook excitement before the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) even officially opened. Late Monday, Yang Yuanqing, …
Citrix introduces Elite partner programme
Noman Qadir, Regional Channel Manager at Citrix Systems, MENA and Turkey Citrix Systems, launched a renewed channel strategy and partner …
Volume and value jostle
Josef Miskulnig worked in IBM from 1977 to 1996. In 1997 he decided to set up Fast Lane as both …
Trend Micro revamps partner programme
Trend Micro has announced an aggressive new partner programme focused on rewarding proactive partners, driving new business, customer retention, while …
Falling memory prices to bring more devices
Everyone likes it when prices fall, right? But there may be a point when flash memory gets too cheap for …
Consumerisation creates management blind spots: survey
As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it’s getting harder …