The recipients of the Network World Middle East’s 3rd annual awards were announced at a gala ceremony in Dubai last …
Aptec strengthens its presence through series of roadshows in Kuwait and Qatar
Aptec Distribution and Track Distribution, part of Aptec Holdings, a large Value-Add distributor in Middle East, has successfully hosted two …
Cisco offers virtualised video surveillance
Cisco yesterday announced a virtualised version of its Video Surveillance software for use on its Unified Computing System platform for enterprise- or government-operated …
Hotels in the region are behind on IT: Atlantis
Hoteliers in the Middle East need to get out of the “traditional hotelier mindset” and start using technology to cater …
Spectrami delivers Actifio PAS platform to the Middle East
Spectrami, a value added distributor, recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Actifio, the Protection and Availability Storage …
Cisco makes strides
The networking giant is on the road to recovery, thanks to a business model realignment and expenses cut. At the …
Dell claims it has network virtualization architecture too
Dell this week is throwing its hat into the virtual networking ring with an architecture that initially is long on …
Top 5 information management and backup trend predictions for 2012: Symantec
“Backup Fights Back in 2012” You can’t call backup boring anymore. Data is exploding year on year. The backup market …
Winning with consolidation
Data centre consolidation is a term being thrown around in 2012 almost as much as virtualisation, cloud and big data. …
What makes an ideal VAD
The value added distribution model is in vogue today. Some of the players are new, some are hybrid and some …
“I do not believe a regional broad line distributor can become a true VAD”
Dr Ali Baghdadi, CEO and President of Aptec Group In 1980, Baghdadi formed Aptec Distribution to bring appropriate technologies …
Cisco boosted profit, sales in Q2 while cutting costs
Cisco Systems posted year-over-year gains in revenue and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Wednesday, reporting net sales up …
Thomson Reuters in major virtual desktop rollout
Thomson Reuters is rolling out virtual desktop access, based on VMware technology, to 10,000 employees. The news and data giant …
New VMware software platform makes it easier to wholesale clouds
VMware has introduced a new software platform that makes it easier for service providers to wholesale their cloud-services infrastructure to …
Organised for speed
The UAE-based Al Shirawi Group is one of the largest manufacturing, engineering, distribution, contracting and services industries conglomerates in the …
Do and re-do
Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Consolidation should be done for the future: Alcatel-Lucent
Data centre consolidation is nothing to be afraid of, and organisations should do it in preparation for the future, says …
Microsoft expands its private cloud solution in new product
Microsoft will enable customers to build private clouds by integrating eight separate component products into one unified solution, they have …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …