IBM is apparently planning the most devastating jobs cuts in business history, with a reported 110,000 employees from a global workforce of 435,000 facing redundancy, US Forbes has reported.
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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 3917
Seagate NAS Pro 4-Bay
With space for four hard disks, the 16TB NAS Pro 4-Bay storage unit is ideal for small businesses. However, Seagate has added a couple of neat features that make the device accessible to the average file hoarder.
Oracle, Samsung, reportedly combining for mobile cloud
Oracle and Samsung Electronics have reportedly forged a new partnership through which they will work together to deliver mobile cloud services.
Microsoft Q4 buoyed by cloud as profit drops
Cloud services like Azure and Office 365 were once again the stalwarts in Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report, with revenue from those products more than doubling from a year earlier.
CIO 100 Award winners announced
CNME’s inaugural CIO 100 Awards ceremony took place yesterday, honouring the top 100 C-level IT talent from across the region.
Hitachi Data Systems updates Content Platform
Hitachi Data Systems has announced new capabilities in its entire Hitachi Content Platform portfolio.
Gartner predicts $3.8 trillion 2015 IT spend
Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total $3.8 trillion in 2015, a 2.4 percent increase from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
China increases censorship with VPN crackdown
China is clamping down on unrestricted access to the Internet by blocking services that allow users to get around government censorship.
BlackBerry CEO Chen demands app neutrality
BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants net neutrality to extend to content and applications, so that developers of apps for Android and iOS will be mandated to develop on the BlackBerry platform as well.
Huawei Founder: ‘I don’t understand tech or finance’
U.S. security concerns may still haunt the reputation of Huawei Technologies, but the Chinese company’s Founder and President Ren Zhengfei brushed off any involvement in state-sponsored cyber espionage in a rare interview on Thursday.