If there is one technology that has become indispensable in the CIO’s arsenal during these tough economic times, it is …
The pipe gets bigger
For the uninitiated, the IEEE 802.3ba standard, ratified in June this year, is the first specification to simultaneously specify two …
Skills and training
Chandan Mehta, product manager at Fujitsu Technology Systems in the region The Middle East has traditionally and for many years, …
Off centre
HP Critical Facility Services customer project manager Kevin Miller For businesses that choose to outsource their data centre requirements, there …
Virtual world
Mohammed Thameem Rizvon,Group IT manager, Kamal Osman Jamjoom Have you implemented virtualisation solutions in your enterprise? If so, what …
Molding the Future
In the world of enterprise software, there are but a handful of “rock star” analysts who cover the industry well, …
Talking Shop
By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, …
Overpowering Pirates
Enterprises across the Middle East risk damaging their businesses through the use of pirated software, with an estimated two-thirds of …
Mission: obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Sa’di M Awienat, director of IT at Qatar Foundation Formed in 1995, …
WordPress 3.0
Among the many types of CMS software (content management systems or blogging tools), WordPress has become extremely popular, providing easy-to-use …
2010 tech career outlook
The good news is that not everyone’s predictions are as dire as Hackett’s, and there are several pockets of demand …
10 IDC tech predictions 2010
1. Next year will be the year of the private cloud. Most IT managers have already begun to offer service-oriented …
Lenovo weighs in on Think netbook
The popularity of netbooks has been so appealing that Chinese PC powerhouse Lenovo is weighing in on the options of …
Being counterintuitive
In a world where most people use computers at home, where the Internet is a basic medium for everyone and …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
A datacentre with that server?
Faced with the continued commoditisation of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward …
Striking back
It can’t be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft’s chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill …