Arthur Dell, Director of Technology and Services, Citrix Middle East, Turkey and Africa, discusses the company’s participation at this year’s GITEX Technology Week and its growth plans in the Middle East.
GITEX 2015 opens doors to public
The 35th edition of GITEX Technology Week was inaugurated by Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum today at Dubai World Trade Centre.
Oracle to feature cloud offerings at GITEX
Oracle has announced that it will be participating in this year’s GITEX Technology Week, with “Journey to the Cloud” as its theme.
Red Hat to put focus on IoT, cloud and enterprise mobility at GITEX
Red Hat has announced its participation at GITEX 2015, taking place on 18th to 22nd October 2015, where it will demonstrate its open hybrid cloud technologies for bare metal, virtualisation, private cloud and public cloud deployments.
Huawei’s cloud map – HCC 2015
The 5th Huawei Cloud Congress was held in Shanghai this month on 18th and 19th with the theme “Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile”. With over ten thousand participants in attendance – including one thousand global carriers and ICT partners – the Shanghai Expo Centre was abuzz with talk of the company’s new products, milestones and projects.
Infor to Showcase Infor CloudSuite at GITEX 2015
Infor has announced that it will showcase Infor CloudSuite Solutions during their participation in the upcoming GITEX Technology Week.
Actifio to offer Google Cloud Storage Nearline
Actifio has announced a strategic relationship with Google Cloud Platform that will provide Actifio customers with one-click access to the Google Cloud Storage Nearline.
Google Cloud Platform to support Windows server
Google has recently expanded its support for Windows workloads running on its cloud, a move that aims to better position Google Cloud Platform to court enterprise customers.
Red Hat launches new cloud and service provider programme
Red Hat has announced the global launch of the Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider programme.
Public and Private – Etisalat enables the region and its businesses
This month, Etisalat hosted two events that aimed to shed light on how the company can enable organisations, both public and private, to bring their processes and services into the digital age.
IBM brings OpenStack to its SoftLayer cloud
IBM has recently launched IBM Cloud OpenStack Services, which allows customers to run OpenStack jobs both in-house and in the IBM SoftLayer cloud, with minimal headache moving applications back and forth.
Dimension Data, NTT partner to move SAP apps to cloud
cloud_lenovaDimension Data and NTT Data, has recently launched a new set of services to help move clients SAP workloads to the Cloud.
IBM’s new Power E850 can take on cloud and database processing
IBM is building slimmer versions of its Power hardware — used by its Watson supercomputer — to run complex database applications as well as simpler Web-based ones.
IBM Watson adds hybrid cloud developer tools
IBM Watson has begun rolling out new hybrid cloud capabilities that will integrate IBM Cloud with a growing number of cognitive computing and content analytics services in the Watson Zone on Bluemix, IBM’s open standards-based cloud innovation platform.
Microsoft looks to empower IT in the cloud
Microsoft is working to help its enterprise customers move their data, apps and operations to the cloud – specifically the hybrid cloud.
Infosys invests in cloud, health monitoring market
Indian outsourcer Infosys has made an acquisition in the area of cloud computing and invested in a personal health monitoring company.
The dream: Seamless cloud
In a work environment where employees demand mobile solutions, and the C-suite is mandated to keep data secure and business processes grounded, CIOs are hard-pressed to create seamless cloud to on-premise solutions that are both user and business friendly.
VMware, Avaya unveil hybrid cloud solution
VMware and Avaya have partnered to deliver enterprise hybrid cloud services on the vCloud Air platform.
Oracle, Samsung, reportedly combining for mobile cloud
Oracle and Samsung Electronics have reportedly forged a new partnership through which they will work together to deliver mobile cloud services.
VMware still chasing despite new cloud offerings
The newest feature added to VMware’s vCloud Air public cloud is the ability to spin virtual machines up and down with a few clicks and pay for them by the hour. This better positions VMware to go head-to-head with top public IaaS cloud vendors, but analysts say VMware still has lots of catching up to do.