Symantec unveiled Endpoint Virtualization Suite, its set of server-based tools for controlling and delivering laptop and desktop application environments through …
Loving the cloud
Back in 1991, before the Internet was a big deal, Ohio State University technologist Jerry Martin signalled the nascent Internet's …
Untangling Windows Upgrades
IT managers are facing a perfect storm of Windows upgrade options. While the Windows 7 beta has garnered some of …
WAN critical to virtualization’s payoff
Guaranteeing application performance over a WAN is hard enough. Now try doing it in a virtual environment. WAN optimization vendors …
Turning smartphones into desktops on the go
The idea that a business traveler would someday carry his or her desktop and applications on a small device has …
Completing data recovery
When the world's largest disk-makers joined last week to announce a single standard for encrypting disk drives, the move raised …
Windows 7 Will Not Sway XP Users
The chances of Windows 7 suddenly winning over Windows XP users in droves are slim to none. Windows 7 is …
Wi-Fi hotspot horrors
Laptops are the main business tool for most mobile workers, and connecting those devices to the Internet via free public …
Start-up VMOps aims to ease cloud deployments
Building a cloud computing infrastructure can be a complicated endeavor, but stealth start-up VMOps hopes to provide a silver lining …
Virtual desktops getting security boost
Businesses looking for safer virtual desktops can cut the risk of attacks if they run their virtual-machine hypervisors directly on …
NetApp CEO: Virtualization driving sluggish storage market
“The market is not robust, but it's not dead either,” he said in an interview. The economic downturn has changed …
A new era in application delivery
The CIO, one of the leading magazines of IDG, sends out an e-mail to his IT managers saying that because …
Fault tolerant technology in Windows
Microsoft and Marathon Technologies last week unveiled a partnership and a joint development agreement to bring fault tolerant options to …
Crossing over to a new era
The building that houses Seven Seas headquarters near Lamzy Plaza in Oud Mehta, Dubai looks quite modest from the outside …
Virtualisation risks
Does transitioning to virtualization increase security risks within a company? IT managers appear to be at loggerheads with IT security …
Avaya looking to catch unified communications wave in 2009
In its favor are that the company is privately held, has been at work streamlining and has installed key executives …
Turbocharging apps
The Landmark Group is one of the largest retailers in the region with over 750 stores in the GCC countries, …
Virtual action
What kind of key opportunities do you see in the Middle Eastern market? According to IDC, IT expenditure in the …
Signs of transformation
NWME: What is the whole idea behind the data centre transformation HP is talking about? Campbell: One of things we …
Virtual World
Thanks to the XenSource acquisition, Citrix has inherited one of the most advanced technologies for open source virtualization: however Xen …