By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Mission: obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Sa’di M Awienat, director of IT at Qatar Foundation Formed in 1995, …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Getting to grips with DCA
Automation power: Data centre automation (DCA) solutions allow IT organisations to automate a variety of workflows that support configuration and …
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 …
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 …
It's not them, it's you
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
IT sins to avoid
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
A line of vision
IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT DR AISHA Butti Bin Bishr, former director of corporate excellence at The Executive Council …
A perfect fit
It would seem obvious that for the effective functioning of an enterprise data centre it is imperative that both IT …
Silo state
It is here. Information explosion and excess data are realities that we as individuals, and as members of larger organisations, have …
Made for the Middle East
Technology vendors never miss a chance to state that the Middle East market is a very crucial one for them. …
Mission: Obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Formed in 1995, the Doha-based Foundation is dedicated to building human capital …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Technology challenges in Oil & Gas
These factors are placing exploration and production (E&P) asset teams under pressure to more precisely characterise prospects and existing dormant …
Enabling business breakthroughs
In Australia, Karoon Gas found that as its business requirements grew, access to various data sets from different locations slowed …