With the rise of cloud and mobility taking centre stage in 2012, SAP believes when it comes to innovation – …
Organised for speed
The UAE-based Al Shirawi Group is one of the largest manufacturing, engineering, distribution, contracting and services industries conglomerates in the …
Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell’s software acquisition plans
Dell’s formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by …
EMC launches ‘Project Lightning’ PCIe cards
EMC today launched its long-awaited “Project Lightning,” now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash …
They offer a name plate, we offer a solution: Infor VP
Oracle and SAP are “looking over their shoulder” as Infor gains ground on them in the Middle East enterprise software …
ME users respond better to our integrated apps: Miranda, Fusion apps
Oracle has seen a higher response rate to its Fusion applications in the Middle East than any other regions, says …
On the lookout
It might be just another year in the technology evolution chain, but vendors believe that 2012 will bring with it …
SAP confident of crossing $26 billion in revenue by 2015
SAP said Wednesday that it had exceeded its guidance for revenue and profit in 2011, its best year in its …
Big and growing
Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. …
Google’s performance ‘less than expected’
Google’s fourth-quarter revenue climbed 25% from a year earlier but was less than analysts had expected, pulling its stock price …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Learning innovation
Although young to the UAE, the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi is making the right investments to offer a competitive …
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 …
CIO=supply chain manager
A few years back, only a large company could afford sophisticated back-office and front-office automation. Whether it was SAP, Siebel, …
Volume and value jostle
Josef Miskulnig worked in IBM from 1977 to 1996. In 1997 he decided to set up Fast Lane as both …
Symantec new update for private Cloud
Anthony Harrison, Solution Architect for Symantec MENA Symantec announced version 6.0 of the company’s storage management and high availability products. …
IBM acquiring Green Hat
IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, …
IBM to acquire Green Hat
IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, …
Big and growing
There is no easy way to say this. Ask a few people about what big data stands for, and you …
Brick-by-brick
Every once in a while, there comes an organisation that challenges the way other organisations have been dealing with strapped …