Gartner has revealed its top predictions for IT organisations and users for 2012 and beyond, and they herald changes in …
IBM buys Emportis for supply software
IBM has signed a deal to buy supply and contract management software vendor Emptoris in another bid to fill out …
Samsung vs Apple saga goes on
Samsung Electronics filed four additional patent claims against Apple on Friday in a German court while also going to trial …
Riverbed upgrade targets video, satellite traffic
A Riverbed software upgrade means more efficient distribution of video over WANs and optimising traffic that runs over satellite links. Riverbed is …
Google Apps has more in the pipeline: VP
Google plans to announce in the coming month or so several customer wins for Google Apps that exceed 100,000 users, …
The future awaits
As organisations in the region prep their strategies for another tough year, Pallavi Sharma speaks to regional vendors to discuss …
Kuwait Petroleum Group chooses CommVault software for aggressive growth
CommVault, today announced that Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has selected CommVault Simpana 9 to meet expanding business, compliance and data …
NetApp targets midsize market
NetApp has announced an addition to its Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) 2000 family of arrays, an entry-level model with up to …
Desktop virtualisation makes good security sense: Citrix
One of the main reasons for deploying desktop virtualisation is the security advantages it can provide, such as keeping sensitive …
Windows 8 will be “largely irrelevant” on PCs: IDC
Windows 8 will be “largely irrelevant” to traditional PC users, IDC said Monday. Microsoft faces a tough sell with the …
RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher
The attack that hacked RSA Security’s network earlier this year succeeded because the company failed to take a basic security …
Big battles in 2012: IDC
Researchers at IDC, say some big battles will be brewing in 2012 in the cloud, mobile and Big Data arenas. …
Defending their PaaS territory
Independent platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) …
EIBFS selects SunGard to provide better services to students
The Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies (EIBFS) has selected SunGard Higher Education, a global provider of higher education …
Smartphone users in KSA prefer Arabic applications
A new Arab Advisors Group’s survey of cellular users in Saudi Arabia revealed insightful details on the smartphones adoption and …
Dell PowerEdge servers get AMD’s new 16-core chips
Dell announced that it has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the just-released 16-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). …
Mobile devices and virtualisation pose big challenges for IT: survey
Increased use of mobile devices, especially smartphones, in addition to the transition to virtualisation, are key factors weighing on enterprises …
Google Apps adds around-the-clock phone support
Addressing a major source of complaints with its Apps suite, Google has announced that it will now offer around-the-clock phone …
Ready for the cloud era
Some figures first. A virtual machine is created every 6 seconds. To put that in perspective, it’s more than the …
AMD’s 16-core Opteron chips arrive after wait
After a brief delay and more than a year of chatter, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the availability of …