Red Hat has announced dates and details for the fifth annual Red Hat Europe, Middle East and Africa Partner Conference scheduled to take place in Madrid, from Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2013.
Logicom awarded Distributor of the Year for MEA
Schneider Electric has awarded Logicom the Distributor of the Year for MEA Award from APC, at its recent channel awards event.
ZOTAC launches H87-ITX WiFi
ZOTAC International today announced a new mini-ITX platform for 4th Generation Intel Core processors for small form factor users that demand a compact PC without sacrificing performance or features.
Ipswitch sees KSA demand for Secure Managed File Transfer technology
Ipswitch File Transfer has seen increased demand for its secure file transfer technology in Saudi Arabia, the company reported.
Aneeta Gupta celebrates Women in AV Award
Visionaire has announced that InfoComm International has awarded Aneeta Gupta the Women in AV Award for the year 2013, making her the first woman outside of the United States of America to have won the global recognition.
CompuMe launches online retail site LetsTango.com
CompuMe Founder and CEO Dikran Tchablakian has announced the launch of LetsTango.com, an e-commerce shopping experience.

The balancing act
Does the business truly understand the complications of balancing new trends with less glamorous legacy applications? Joe Lipscombe investigates the balancing act.

In-memory of disk storage
CIOs’ ears perked up a couple of months ago when Gartner declared that in-memory computing (IMC) is racing towards mainstream adoption, and that CIOs must reskill their teams if they want to fully exploit it.

Laser treatment
It was about time that the Bank of Beirut updated its manual filing processes, which included copying and storing files related to account openings, loans, customer inquiries, and banking vouchers.

Not what the doctor ordered
Though he derives his inspiration from his family with 11 doctors so far, medicine wasn’t on Thameem Rizvon’s prescription. The …

The dilemma
When the Commercial Bank of Dubai’s storage capacity was running out, it faced a dilemma familiar to many — increase capacity and face the maintenance costs, or take on a complete technology refresh.

Creating memories
Software AG-acquired Terracotta is making big moves in Big Data; its in-memory tools have seen 2.5 million deployments. Chief evangelist Gagan Mehar talks to CNME about the hype surrounding Big Data and the company’s love/hate relationship with SAP’s in-memory technology, HANA.
Actifio and Spectrami launch Middle East’s first Customer Experience Centre in Dubai
Copy data management company, Actifio, and dedicated Middle East partner, Spectrami, have launched a Customer Experience Centre in Dubai dedicated to enhancing the customer experience for their wide breadth of partners and users… More pictures inside.

Safe investment
Quickly expanding strategic investment company, Tawazun, recently teamed up with Huawei in order to commit to its mission to develop the UAE’s defence sector. The company deployed Huawei’s IPv6-based solution across its vast industrial site, as it aims to ensure faster surveillance response times, a stronger technological backbone, and the capabilities for flexibility and expansion.