Spectrami together with Violin Memory organised Tech Workshop, a training workshop on enterprise flash storage solutions
Dawn of a new era
Held at HKCEC, the eleventh edition of Hong Kong spring electronics fair and the International ICT expo concluded last week, with exhibitors and visitors from all over the world coming together to see the latest products and technologies in these fields. Read on for an overview of the event.
IBM profit falls on weak hardware sales and transition costs
Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM’s profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.
Oracle identifies products affected by Heartbleed
Oracle has issued a comprehensive list of its software that may or may not be affected by the OpenSSL (secure sockets layer) vulnerability known as Heartbleed, while warning that no fixes are yet available for some likely affected products.
Virtual networks
As a prelude to CNME’s Network World ME Awards 2014, delegates from Dell partnered with CPI to host a roundtable on network virtualisation at Jumeirah Emirates Towers on 24th March.
Busting SDN myths
Software-defined networking (SDN) is the hottest thing going today, but there is considerable confusion surrounding everything from the definition of the term to the different architectures and technologies suppliers are putting forward.
Huawei GM: UAE moving ahead in digital industrial era
CNME Online connects with Mr. Peng Xiongji, General Manager, Huawei UAE, on what Dubai residents can expect to see as a result of investments contributing to the Dubai Smart City Project.
Veeam partners with Redington Gulf for ME reach
Veeam has announced a strategic partnership with Redington Gulf to continue growth throughout the Middle East.
New avenues for growth
Reseller ME explores how partners can gain a competitive advantage by embracing software-defined networking (SDN) solutions.
Interview: VMware cloud R&D chief
VMware’s VCloud Hybrid Service, when launched in May last year, was considered to be a game-changer for the company. Ray O’Farrell, Head of R&D, VMWare, speaks about why hybrid is the future and how VMware is going to play its cards in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service space.
The promise of SDN
In partnership with CNME, delegates from Brocade hosted a roundtable at Jumeirah Emirates Towers on 24th March, which gathered a select group of IT leaders from around the region to discuss the future of Software Defined Networking and Ethernet Fabric.
Kingdom connect
Saudi Arabian Airlines have provisioned a $1 billion deal to implement the IT infrastructure for King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia. James Dartnell reports from the development to find out how the airline’s privatised IT arm aims to inspire the next generation of Saudis.
Cisco reveals OpenFlow SDN killer
Cisco is this week unveiling an alternative to OpenFlow for software-defined networking and proposing it as a standard, while adding it as a vital component of the company’s new programmable architecture.
Integrating with best practices
Given the rapid development of Data integration technologies over the last decade, it is difficult to know what the best practices are for each DI technique. Additionally, the desire to integrate quickly to keep up with the growing trend has some enterprises sacrificing quality data integration for quick implementation.
State of the union
Sreedhar K. Reddy, Director of IT, Aldar, and his IT team took advantage of their corporate merger to streamline administrative processes, and upgrade systems, among other tasks. The result – a corporate merger that stands as an example for businesses worldwide.
Amazon counters Google with its own cloud price cuts
The price war among major cloud providers continues, with Amazon Web Services announcing Wednesday that it is lowering the prices of a number of its cloud services, one day after Google slashed prices.
The death of Internet privacy
In the age of constant connection, internet users are sharing more and more sensitive information online. As hackers become more organised and the amount of data stored in the cloud increases, the potential for leaks of sensitive data becomes magnified.
CNME hosts fifth annual Network World ME Awards
CNME hosted its fifth annual Network World ME awards last night at the Godolphin Ballroom in Jumeirah Emirates Towers.
SETRA to be Eaton’s KSA systems integrator
In partnership with SETRA, Eaton will provide localized Uninterruptable Power supply (UPS) solutions to the Saudi Arabian market.
IDC: Cloud will be $107B industry by 2017
Cloud computing was an estimated $47.4 billion industry in 2013 and is expected to more than double to $107 billion by 2017, research firm IDC predicts.