The Middle East is a strong growth market with a knack to leap-frogging technology and delivering impressive implementations. CIOs have been deploying solutions and applications which are keeping the region relevant, and though most global brands have a presence here, the landscape owes much to locality.
By definition
There may have been a few people who spat out their coffee the morning they read that EMC had unveiled …
The spaghetti incident
In 2009, DP World in the UAE decided to set up its own IT department separate from the shared services …
Dell eyes up converged market with first SMB-targeted solution
Dell today announced the Middle East launch of its extended converged infrastructure portfolio, which includes the first converged solution specifically …
89% of IT managers believe their role will change: Aruba study
BYOD, cloud and virtualisation will transform the role of the IT manager from technical specialist to central business communicator, according …
We will fire back at Cisco, says Aruba CEO
Aruba Networks’ CEO, Dominic Orr, has promised to “fire back” at Cisco, after he attributed underhand tactics — in which …
Time to phase out VLANs, says Aruba CTO
The Virtual LAN (VLAN) model of networking must be phased out to make way for bring-your-own-device (BYOD)-ready networks, according to …
An APPealing prospect
With a quarter of global enterprises predicted to have an enterprise app store within four years, CNME delves into the …
One jump ahead
CNME partnered with Huawei for a leadership roundtable conference to discover how hotels and residential buildings can “jump on the …
Tucci’s promise
CEO Joe Tucci used EMC’s Global Partner Summit (GPS), which ran as part of EMC World 2013, to promise partners …
Telecom get us!
Ericsson’s Middle East President, Anders Lindblad, is adamant the telecoms giant will hold off the rising force of Huawei to …
Aspire Zone: Managing for the future
Qatar is looking to build its future around being a world-class sporting destination, with technology a vital enabler in the …
Four more years
Even the best storage products must eventually be retired – a fact that many belt-tightening CIOs are at pains to …
Learning the ropes
At its Universe event in Copenhagen, Teradata unveiled a new approach to big data which allows organisations to embrace the …