Oracle’s database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services’ Relational Database Service, the companies …
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UAE CIOs rank cloud as a top investment priority
With 85 percent of UAE CIOs ranking cloud as their top investment priority to 2020, managing multiple clouds will be the foundation for business success, industry experts revealed recently.0 4046
Lenovo breaks ground on new operations centre
Chinese PC maker Lenovo has broken ground on a new operations centre in southwestern China that will produce computers, as …
The cost of security compliance – $3.5m: survey
The cost of achieving regulatory security compliance is on average $3.5 million each year, according to a survey of 160 …
EMC appoints GM for KSA
EMC has appointed Mohamed Talaat as GM of the company’s Saudi operations. Based in Riyadh, Talaat will be responsible for …
Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online
“When countries block, we evolve,” an activist with the group We Rebuild wrote in a Twitter message Friday. That's just …
Computers need radical redesign: research
To use multicore processors effectively the IT industry needs to radically rethink the basic computer architecture it has used over …
Microsoft Windows revenues plunge 30%
Revenues from Windows plummeted 30% last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said yesterday. But in …
Bad business process management will topple firms: Gartner
Easily identifiable business process management defects “will topple” ten global 2000 companies by 2014, according to analyst house Gartner. Gartner …
New Intel technology to reduce data centre cabling
The days of data centres containing large bunches of cabling could be numbered according to Intel. The company is set …
EU to lay down cloud guidelines
The European Union is set to introduce a set of guidelines for cloud computing covering such areas as data protection, …