The Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies (EIBFS) has selected SunGard Higher Education, a global provider of higher education …
Mobile Fusion will play BES role for future RIM devices
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, announced yesterday, isn’t just Research In Motion’s first entry in the race to manage enterprises’ whole mobile …
Office 365 a hit, especially with small businesses: Microsoft
Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud collaboration and communication suite for organisations, is selling eight times faster than its predecessor, the Business …
Architecting growth
Not known for making bold investments in ICT, the construction sector is showing signs of rapid change. Pallavi Sharma discovers …
We want to be number one by 2015: Huawei
Huawei Technologies, the leading networking solutions vendor from China, expects the enterprise division of the business to contribute 20% of …
70% UK firms lack confidence in system’s DR ability
70% of UK organisations are not very confident of their ability to fully recover their systems or data after downtime …
How to achieve global ERP
IFS North America CTO Rick Veague explores why companies aim to achieve global ERP and the challenges and benefits of …
Smartphone users in KSA prefer Arabic applications
A new Arab Advisors Group’s survey of cellular users in Saudi Arabia revealed insightful details on the smartphones adoption and …
Private sector needs to take proactive approach to security: aeCERT
At a roundtable organised by the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) and UBM, the audience had an opportunity to discuss …
A continuing story
Business continuity (BC) is not yet fully understood by most large Middle East enterprises, and is often confused with its …
It’s a small world
Sure, Facebook has more than 800 million members, but according to new data, only 4.74 degrees separate each of us …
Hadoop is ready for the enterprise, IT Execs say
Despite some lingering user concerns about security and other issues, Hadoop is ready for enterprise use, according to IT executives …
HP paying Intel to keep Itanium going: Oracle
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that …
Apple, Google need to improve smartphone security: Blue Coat
The practice of “security by obscurity” on the Apple’s iOS needs to improve as smartphone adoption increases, according to Blue …
Alcatel promises better clouds for carriers
Alcatel-Lucent is developing a cloud computing platform for carriers that aims to take full advantage of their networks to deliver …
BA hires Xerox to cut 25% of mail and digital print costs
British Airways is partnering with Xerox to cut “up to a quarter” of the cost of its mail and digital …
HCT and Microsoft to create MENA region’s first Microsoft Learning Center
The first “Microsoft Learning Center” in the Middle East and North Africa(MENA) region will be set up by the Higher …
Adobe donates Flex to Apache
In a move that appears to be another step away from its Flash platform, Adobe has submitted the code for …
Cisco goes mobile with collaboration tools
In an attempt to move beyond the desktop, Cisco is updating two of its enterprise-level collaboration tools. At the Cisco …
Former Genentech chief to chair Apple
Arthur Levinson, former CEO of biotech company Genentech, is taking on the chairmanship of Apple’s board, filling the role that …