Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, du, launched a new programme “Your Health in Your Hands” to coincide with International Women Health …
HSBC streamlining IT in $3.5b cost saving drive
HSBC has laid out aggressive plans to streamline IT and realign business processes, as part of a bid to save …
HP counters Cisco with new switches, architecture
At Interop this week, HP unveiled products supporting a new architecture that attempts to unify enterprise data center, campus and branch networks …
IEEE seeks data on Ethernet bandwidth needs
The IEEE has formed a group to assess demand for a faster form of Ethernet, taking the first step toward …
Microsoft agrees to buy Skype for $8.5 billion
Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies’ CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony …
Microsoft to buy Skype
Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies’ CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony …
A matter of scale
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is one of the largest hotel groups globally, with around 97 properties in the Middle East …
IBM rolls out tape library for big data
IBM has announced new tape storage and enhanced archiving, deduplication offerings designed to help clients efficiently store and extract intelligence …
Gartner outlines data management trends
As the master data management (MDM) market grows and matures, new trends will help shape its evolution, according to Gartner. …
Avaya announces data networking solutions
Avaya announced that it will showcase new data networking solutions at Interop Las Vegas that will allow customers to simplify …
VMware’s Cloud Foundry suffers second outage
VMware’s attempt to recover from an outage in its brand-new cloud computing service inadvertently caused a second outage the next …
Red Hat pitches new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …
Juniper rolls out latest Cisco challenge
Juniper Networks this week is rolling out its first dedicated line of enterprise edge routers, a collection of products that borrow …
Brocade developing 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel
Brocade Technologies, which announced 16G bps (bit-per-second) Fibre Channel products on Monday, is already working on a 32G bps version …
Brocade unveils vision for the virtual enterprise
Brocade today introduced a new technology architecture – the CloudPlex – that outlines the company’s vision and the technology investments …
Juniper rolls out latest Cisco challenge
Juniper Networks this week is rolling out its first dedicated line of enterprise edge routers, a collection of products that …
What comes round
When I first started writing about enterprise IT, some 25 years ago, there were three key areas of interest for …
Caught in the Web
With increased use of the Internet, organisations worldover have realised the infinite benefits and challenges associated with using this channel. …
Riding the cloud
The Jumeirah Group has built a private cloud in a hybrid environment to connect disparate offices and improve efficiency. Home …
HSBC Insurance signs up for IBM’s new BI system
HSBC Insurance in the UK has signed a deal with IBM for analytics software aimed at preparing for the upcoming …