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, …
EMC announces midrange storage developments
“We find that all our customers are using several separate element managers. Unisphere will unify or aggregate these separate element …
Why (not) invest now?
To invest or not invest is a more than legitimate question in today’s economic climate. Projects undergo longer and more …
Global data storage demands to rocket in next decade
The amount of information in the world is set to rise 44-fold in the next decade according to IDC, with …
Eyes on the network
A network monitoring system monitors an internal network for problems. It can find and help resolve snail-paced webpage downloads, lost-in-space …
Cyberoam rolls out Version X
Cyberoam, the Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance vendor, has announced the release of its new firmware with Cyberoam’s Version X …
New SaaS company launched
Dubbed LiveRoute, the company has unveiled its SaaS portfolio in the Middle East in partnership with Aplicor Inc, a global …
Citrix releases Xen 4.0
Xen.org, part of Citrix, has launched a new version of the Xen open source hypervisor. The company claimed that Xen …
Worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3% in 2010: Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 percent increase from IT spending of $3.2 …
NetApp to acquire Bycast
Customers whose business depends on access to critical data across geographically distributed locations rely on Bycast to better share and …
BIX collaborates with Cisco
Cisco has agreed to work with The Bahrain Internet Exchange (BIX) with the aim of collaborating on a national project …
KuwaitNet, Redington Value boost regional open source efforts
The conference which was held under the theme “An Opportunity to re-invent IT with open source during the current economical …
Sariya-IT on the growth curve
While some IT companies in the region may have taken a battering from last year’s global economic slowdown, the same …
Red Hat moves into desktop virtualisation
Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualisation platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support …
Gartner: 10 mobile & wireless technologies that should be on your radar
“These mobile technologies were selected because they will evolve in ways that affect corporate strategies, significant numbers of customers or …
Brocade aims for more balance with Foundry
Sales of Brocade's Ethernet switches, obtained from its multibillion dollar acquisition of Foundry Networks in 2008, were down 24% in …
CommVault announces SnapProtect integration with EqualLogic
CommVault is introducing a new extension to its snapshot backup protection client, an integral part of Simpana v8 software, to …