Gulf Business Machines (GBM) today announced the appointment of Piero Corsini as country GM for Khorafi Business Machines, GBM’s Kuwait branch. Corsini will be responsible for handling client relations in Kuwait, further developing the skill levels of employees as well as focusing on business growth.

UAE to open region’s first AI summer camp
UAE students will soon be able to attend an artificial intelligence-focused summer camp following Minister of State for Artifical Intelligence Omar bin Sultan Al Olama's announcement that the government is collaborating with number of leading national and international technology and education companies in the private sector to open such programme in the country.0 5012
Red Hat and partners hit the road for conference tour
Red Hat announced today that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences alongside IBM and Symantec, kicking …

IBM and Oracle unveil rival chips for Unix servers
IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ …

IBM improves high-end mainframe speed, capacity
IBM has continued the evolution of its mainframe family by introducing a system it says is 25% faster and has …

IBM to buy cloud HR software vendor Kenexa
IBM plans to boost its enterprise social line of software by acquiring Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications, …
IBM opens first research centre in Africa
IBM is opening its first research centre in Africa, following years of international marketing by the Kenyan government and visits …

IBM paper claims spintronics breakthrough
IBM researchers are claiming a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use …
Women of the channel- The dreamer
Simran Chabbra, Gulf distribution manager at Microsoft

IBM hints at RIM enterprise business bid
IBM has shown interest in buying the enterprise services business of struggling smartphone maker Research in Motion, according …

IBM announces updated security appliance
IBM has announced a new network security appliance to help deal with increasing threats posed by social media sites and malicious websites. …