Technology vendors never miss a chance to state that the Middle East market is a very crucial one for them. …
Mission: Obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Formed in 1995, the Doha-based Foundation is dedicated to building human capital …
NetApp and Intel lead evolution to 10G unified Ethernet networking
NetApp has announced it will support the Intel Ethernet X520 family of SFP+10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server adapters. This extends …
Virtualising the Wide Area Network
Mission-critical applications such as high-frequency trading engines demand the lowest latency and highest availability—features typically provided by optical networks or …
Symantec completes acquisition of PGP, GuardianEdge
These acquisitions extend Symantec’s ability to help customers secure and manage their most critical information. By bringing together PGP and …
The security channel
For organisations too big to outsource all security functions and too small to have their own IT army, the mid-market …
WAN optimisation goes virtual
While the benefits of WAN optimisation are well documented-better application performance, cost reductions and bandwidth savings, to name a few- …
Brocade aims high
At its annual Brocade Technology Day held in New York, the company took the wraps off Brocade One – its …
HP buys Melodeo
Hewlett-Packard confirmed on Wednesday that it had acquired Melodeo, its second recent acquisition in the mobile market. HP did not …
Not standing still
Although not a completely new message to the market, the HP Tech Forum 2010 in Las Vegas saw the tech …
Collaboration vendors join for interoperability
A number of unified communications vendors including Microsoft, Polycom and Hewlett-Packard have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a group …
IBM buys Web analytics software company
IBM will add Coremetrics into its portfolio of business analytics software and services. A privately held firm, the San Mateo, …
Cisco turns SMB storage into multipurpose platform
In addition to hard drives and backup and encryption capabilities, the new NSS 300 Series Smart Storage systems introduced Wednesday …
Cisco vs Juniper
The argument began in 1996 with Juniper's founding; until then, Cisco had ruled the router roost in both the enterprise …
Aiming high
At the Brocade Technology Day in New York, the company took the wraps off its blueprint for stitching together storage …
Dell has new UAE country manager
Based in Dubai, Moufarrej will be responsible for growing Dell’s commercial business across the region and will work closely with …
Springboard to success
NWME: What brings you to town? Lebeck: Middle East is a key region for us. I wanted to meet the …
Carrier Ethernet grows up
There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and — let's be honest –more than a …
CA to become CA Technologies
CA is no more. The company formerly known as Computer Associates has changed its name once more and is now …
Juniper collapses the data centre
The new products and services address automation, virtualization and fabric technologies. Taken together, Juniper claims they can dramatically increase performance, …