A regional increase in the ‘bring your own device’ or BYOD trend within the Middle East’s workplaces bodes well for …
McAfee brings antivirus support to VMware’s vShield
McAfee yesterday announced a version of its antivirus software for VMware’s vShield security technology. The McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) …
BlackBerry and Apple triumph in enterprise-ready OS battle: Trend Micro
Trend Micro recently announced the release of brand new research comparing the ability of several different mobile platforms to meet …
Yahoo laying off 2,000 workers to save $375M
After weeks of rumours of a pending reorganisation, Yahoo has announced it is laying off around 2,000 workers. Yahoo will begin …
“We are hungry”
Nidal Abou-Ltaif, the swashbuckling lead of communications and networking major Avaya in the region, talks about how the Middle East …
Mac users ‘just as easily duped by cybercriminals’ as Windows users
In the face of new threats aimed at OS X, a security expert has warned that Mac users may be …
Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive
Hitachi’s former disk-drive division today announced what it said is the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive. The drive has …
SAP goes after SAS, IBM with predictive analysis software
SAP is hoping to stake out some turf in the predictive analytics software market with a new application called BusinessObjects …
We’re no longer just WAN optimisation: Riverbed
Riverbed Technology wants the enterprise IT market to know that it is no longer just a networking company providing WAN …
Amazon expands cloud-based live streaming functionality
Amazon has added the ability for CloudFront to stream live content to Apple iOS devices and Microsoft Silverlight clients, the …
Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology
Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualisation offerings, …
Windows 8 update: Back up Windows Server 8 to the cloud
Microsoft is offering free tests of online backup for Windows Server 8 via its Azure cloud storage service, which could be a convenient way …
Do insecure open source components threaten your apps?
Since Apache Maven, the brainchild of Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl, emerged as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in …
Red Hat: beware of cloud ‘open-washing’
Open source software company Red Hat believes that companies like VMware and Microsoft are skewing the definition of open cloud …
Atlantis combats storage bottlenecks with ILIO for Citrix XenApp
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) specialist Atlantis Computing is moving into virtual server optimisation with the launch of its ILIO optimisation …
SuccessFactors offers free version of Jam software in hit against Salesforce.com
SAP’s SuccessFactors subsidiary is rolling out a version of its Jam social collaboration platform at no charge to all users, …
Jive develops enterprise social app for intranets
Jive Software has developed a version of its enterprise social collaboration software designed for intranets, the latest product it creates for …
Google working on advanced web engineering
Google is working on a number of advanced programming technologies to ease complex web application development, a Google engineer revealed …
GFI Vipre Antivirus Business 5.0
GFI Software today launched GFI Vipre Antivirus Business 5.0 and GFI Vipre Business Premium 5.0 in the UAE, the latest …
At home in the cloud: The emerging opportunity for telecom operators
Residential consumers are demanding more and more cloud computing services and storage, and the volume of data they want to store in the cloud is substantial.