Although young to the UAE, the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi is making the right investments to offer a competitive …
WAN optimisation gets cloud-ready
WAN optimisation is going to be critical in guaranteeing application performance in cloud environments. WAN optimisation has been typically deployed …
China’s Internet population tops 500m
China’s Internet population passed the half billion mark at the end of 2011 after the country added 28 million new …
Al-Sorayai Group implements Oracle’s Retail solution
Carpet and rug manufacturer Al-Sorayai Group has completed its six-month implementation of Oracle Retail merchandising and stores applications to support …
Regional companies yet to reach European data centre standards: Heger
Enterprises in the Middle East must prepare themselves for the big data boom or risk being pushed aside by international …
Existing industry models will be challenged through 2015: Gartner
Enterprises have difficult and challenging times ahead, and need to adapt to new technologies to remain competitive in the upcoming …
Outlook 2012, Demand transformation
2011 was a year to reckon with for the Middle East IT industry, because of the impact of the worldwide …
Enterprises must accept change, says Emitac deputy GM
Enterprises must accept the change management involved with data centre consolidation in order to move forward as a business, says …
Lenovo U300s
Lenovo, the world’s second largest PC maker has released its first UltraBook. Overview The first concept of an UltraBook was …
Sony Tablet S
The electronics giant Sony has finally decided to join the tablet club. A little late maybe but it made us …
Acer and Lenovo take the cloud route
Acer and Lenovo, which make Android-based tablets, smartphones and Windows PCs, have outlined their cloud strategies in an effort to …
“We are a supply chain services provider in the emerging markets” Raj Shankar, Managing Director, Redington Gulf
Shankar heads the largest IT distribution business in the region. At close to Dollar Two billion, Redington Gulf has the …
Masafi wins Oracle eco-enterprise innovation Award
Masafi, one of the region’s FMCG brand, has been named as one of the 15 winners worldwide at this year’s …
Infor introduces ION
Infor, a vendor of business application software unveiled Infor10, which features a consumer type user experience, industry specific software applications …
NetBase, SAP offer social media analytics
To help global enterprises capitalise on the use of social media data, SAP AG and NetBase have announced that SAP …
GSMA partners with Qtel, Qualcomm to launch mobile health university challenge
“Pressures on the health services around the world are growing and mobile is seen as a channel to deliver …
GE, Microsoft launch JV aimed at global healthcare system transformation
General Electric Company through its healthcare IT business and Microsoft announced plans to create a joint venture aimed at helping …
Outllook 2012, IT’s biggest transformation
We are now experiencing one of the biggest waves of IT transformation in history. Cloud is part of it and …
Outlook 2012, Application explosion
IT environments in the Middle East are becoming increasingly complicated and the number of applications to manage is exploding. Virtualisation, …
Oracle’s big data appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance product, which began shipping Tuesday , gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache …