Difficulties have arisen this year in the area of intrusion prevention systems (IPS). Vendors have struggled to recast their appliances …
Making the leap
Standards-based 40- and 100-gigabit Ethernet switches and routers are starting to show up in enterprise networks, and it’s easy to …
Middle East enterprise lack disaster recovery plans, finds EMC study
EMC has announced results of ‘The Disaster Recovery Survey 2012: Middle East, Turkey and Morocco’, which found that 82% of …
Post-PC era is already upon us: Padmasree Warrior, Cisco CTO
The post-PC era is already here and changing the way enterprises do business, according to Padmasree Warrior, CTO and GM of …
Public cloud saved FarmVille, but private cloud saved us money, says Zynga CTO
Allan Leinwand, CTO of infrastructure at social gaming giant Zynga, has revealed how the company’s deployment of public cloud saved the …
HP tackles BYOD with new solutions
HP today set out to tackle the BYOD (bring your own device) problem, with the announcement of a new set …
HP partners with F5 to enable app deployment 'in minutes'
HP today announced a partnership with Application Delivery Networking (ADN) company F5 to introduce technology that allows enterprises to deliver …
Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues: IDC
The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from US$77 …
AWS teams with Aryaka for unified infrastructure to access global cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced in partnership with Aryaka, the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimisation and application acceleration solution, …
R&M steps up focus on Saudi
Structured cabling vendor R&M has confirmed its focus on the Saudi market, seeing tremendous potential in the Kingdom and as a …
Ericsson partners with ictQatar for networked society
Ericsson and Qatar’s Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR) today announced the launch of a new strategic partnership …
Cisco to acquire real-time network analytics firm Truviso
Cisco has announced plans to acquire network analytics company Truviso for an undisclosed amount, in an effort to help users …
Intel-McAfee developing cloud-security strategy
Intel, which last year acquired McAfee for its security expertise, has described work it is doing to provide enterprises with a way …
Integrating public cloud storage into your storage vision
As IT organisations build their storage plans and create a vision for the future, cloud storage and the paradigm on …
Sproxil taps IBM analytics to tackle medication counterfeiting
With a commitment to incorporate IBM analytics into its offerings, U.S.-based Sproxil is set to expand after its initial foray …
BT responds to BYOD, data concerns with BT Assure updates
BT today announced new features to its BT Assure security portfolio aimed at protecting enterprises from threats arising from the …
Mark Hurd: Oracle’s only objective is to help customers
Oracle president Mark Hurd has pledged to “make it easier” for customers to do business with the company. The pledge …
VMware to offer enterprise application portal
VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a …
'Hyperspeed signalling' could prevent cyber attacks, claim researchers
Security engineers at the University of Tulsa have found a way to identify cyber attacks before they reach their target, …
Nokia sues HTC, RIM and Viewsonic over patent infringement
Nokia has filed claims in the U.S. and Germany saying that products from HTC, Research In Motion (RIM) and ViewSonic …