British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has reportedly infiltrated hacktivist groups and used denial-of-service and other techniques to disrupt their online activities.
Satya Nadella to succeed Ballmer as Microsoft CEO
Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO: Satya Nadella, who as executive vice president of the company’s Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company’s back-end server software and tools to the cloud.
New responsibilities
As more security technologies have made the switch from analogue to Internet Protocol, lines between security and IT have blurred, with CIOs and IT heads becoming increasingly responsible for an organsiation’s security.
Gartner: 2013 was the year of Snowden
The security space in 2013 will go down in history as a sector dominated by the work of Edward Snowden, Gartner has said.
Emulex unveil new adapters to address explosive storage growth
Network management firm Emulex have released their next generation of Ethernet connectivity solutions for virtualised, enterprise and Cloud datacentres.
Infor to launch Arabic version of EnRoute at Middle East Navigator 2014 conference
Application software provider Infor, and MENA emergency services partners Automation Consultants will launch the Arabic version of Infor EnRoute at Middle East Navigator 2014 Conference.
TRA reveals expected FedNET completion date for UAE
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has said it expects the first ever Electronic Federal Network (FedNET) in the United Arab Emirates to be established by November 2014.
Microsoft steps up Chinese Bing efforts with Windows Azure
Bing has barely any market share in China, but Microsoft hopes to change that in the next year or two by investing more resources into the local version of the search engine.
Is a move to the Cloud good or bad for IT?
There are four primary factors that can make the shift to the cloud a positive one for IT, says Joe Staples, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, Marketing, at Interactive Intelligence Group
What's Next for India's Outsourcing Industry? Q&A with outgoing NASSCOM president
In the 25 years since India’s most well-known IT services trade group National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) was formed, the country’s global outsourcing industry has experienced tremendous growth, but also its share of ups and downs.
California lawmakers move to bar state help to NSA
Two California lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would prohibit state agencies and corporations from providing material support to the National Security Agency.
CNME Q&A: Natalya Kaspersky
CNME talks to the InfoWatch CEO
Tripp Lite signs Metra for MENA region
According to the partnership, Metra will support the vendor’s portfolio of SMB and Enterprise solutions through more than 5,000 channel partners across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
U.S. hacker who sold documents to FBI jailed for 18 months
A Pennsylvania man who hacked into multiple corporate, university and government computer networks and tried to sell access to them, including supercomputers from a U.S. national security laboratory, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Red Hat: ME enterprises should not be fooled by the false ‘open’
IT analyst firm Gartner placed ‘Software Defined Anything’ in its list for Top IT Trends for 2014. Within the storage market, software-defined storage is rapidly gaining importance and becoming a growing market trend in the Middle East.
Ericsson reveals solutions at Cairo ICT 2013
Ericsson used Cairo ICT 2013 to reveal the city’s position in this year’s Ericsson Networked Society City Index report, which analysed the levels of ICT-driven benefits created in some of the largest cities across the globe.
Huawei, Zain, highlight customer experience as 2014 focus
Huawei has teamed up with MENA mobile telecoms provider Zain Group to identify customer experience as crucial for the coming year.
Cisco: SDN, internet of things main 2014 concerns
Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and SDN-enabled platforms with killer applications for them, says Cisco.
Lenovo looking at acquisitions to expand enterprise unit
Once heavily reliant on the Chinese market, Lenovo is now looking to make acquisitions as it tries to expand its growing enterprise business to other countries.
Empowering the Crowd
As Powering The Cloud hosted its 10th anniversary show in Frankfurt, few would question that cloud computing uptake is on the rise. The same few would question that it is a trend that is here to stay, and one that businesses will have to adapt to.