The global technology distribution giant has taken a significant step forward into the value business with the acquisition of Aptec. …

Global IT spending to see 2013 boost
Businesses purchasing new devices and investing in security and storage management tools should boost overall IT spending during 2013, according …
DDoS bank attacks signal new era of cyber warfare
Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to …

Ditching restrictions
File sharing is a critical, sensitive and valuable task for companies in all verticals. It’s costly, involves patching, management, and …

A new world
The rise of virtualisation and cloud has revolutionised the data centre. With many touting 2013 as the year of cloud …

Cloud service partnerships to boom in 2013
Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report …

Turnaround time
Following a year of tribulations, HP finished 2012 on a high at its Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt with what …

Better together
Dubai Municipality is renowned as one of the government’s most innovative entities, particularly in its work transforming standard city services …

Red Hat to acquire ManageIQ
Red Hat has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ManageIQ, which provides enterprise cloud management …

Keeping secure? Virtually impossible
The last 12 months has seen an incredible transformation from traditional IT towards a new, digitalised world which has begun …

Official document reveals the rules of Oracle’s cloud
An official document containing policies and pledges for customers of Oracle’s cloud services reveals that many aspects fall in line …

Enterprises to ‘get real’ about cloud in 2013: Forrester
IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according …

Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu winners as storage market weakens
Growth in the storage market slowed down during the third quarter, but vendors such as Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu still …

Nicira CTO shares sneak peek of company’s SDN plans
Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent …

More fireworks
It’s not just data that’s exploding as storage vendors set off fireworks to celebrate a lucrative year in the Middle …

Unchartered shores
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Emcor Facilities Services (EFS) says this …

Toshiba develops MRAM for smartphone processors
Toshiba has developed a low-power, high-speed version of MRAM memory that it says can cut power consumption in mobile CPUs …

Avnet collaborates with NVIDIA
Avnet Technology Solutions has announced that it has joined the NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Partner program to help high-performance computing (HPC) customers drive …

Symantec – Security and storage predictions for 2013
In 2012 mobility, virtualisation and cloud computing were three big trends that affected change in the way organisations across the …

HP claims revolution with biggest storage announcements in 10 years
HP today declared itself back on the up with what it referred to as its biggest storage announcements in over …


