Schneider Electric, today announced the appointment of Abed Al Jawad Qasem as vice-president for its IT business in Saudi Arabia. …
EMC expands cloud portfolio
EMC yesterday announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to help customers accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimisation and management of …
BlackBerry triumphs in comparison of mobile platforms in enterprise
BlackBerry 7.0 has come out on top in a comparison of mobile platforms and how they meet the demands of …
Dell launches XPS 13 Ultrabook in the Gulf
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 …