Deduplication is seen as an important strategy for data recovery, with the idea being if data is reduced, not only …
Back to the future
Boy, was I glad to reach the end of October. GITEX had engulfed CNME since September and we were still …
On it’s 5th anniversary, Android solidifies its OS dominance
Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number …
Cisco to acquire cloud vendor Meraki for $1.2B
Cisco revealed yesterday it intends to acquire Meraki, a vendor of technology for cloud based management of wireless LAN, security …
Anonymous attacks against Israeli sites continued Friday
Anonymous-led denial of service attacks continued unabated for the second day Friday against Israeli government and corporate websites in retaliation …
Xerox debuts networked MFP with McAfee protection
Xerox and McAfee revealed new protection against malware and viruses with the first networked multifunction printer to use McAfee Embedded …
Cloud services in MENA market to surpass $378 Mn in 2012: Gartner
The Middle Eastern and Northern African public cloud services market is forecast to grow 15.3 percent in 2012 to total …
SAP HANA Platform ready for mission-critical applications in the enterprise
SAP AG has announced the availability of SAP HANA platform support pack stack 5 (SPS 5) to power mission critical transactional …
MENA is lacking mobility policies, cloud adoption, says SAP
The MENA region is sufficiently lacking mobility policies and strategies, especially small and medium sized businesses, according to Sam Alkharrat, …
Intel ships 60-core Xeon Phi processor
Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first …
Virtually misguided
Vendors and industry leaders appear to have led the formation of an almost ubiquitous assumption that desktop virtualisation is something …
Analyst report advocates for cloud, SaaS buyers’ ‘bill of rights’
With SaaS (software-as-a-service) having become a preferred deployment model for new software purchases, customers should be entitled to a clear-cut …
STME achieves Symantec data protection specialisation
STME has achieved Symantec specialisation in the area of data protection with a focus on Symantec’s backup and recovery technologies. …
BYOD puts the employee in control, says Blue Coat
With the advent of mobility and the influx of BYOD in enterprise, employers are struggling to keep control of their …
Sourcefire adds advanced malware protection to FirePOWER
Sourcefire announced today it has strengthened and expanded its FirePOWER appliance family, providing users with the unmatched ability to protect …
Symantec: Ransom malware gangs making huge profits
The problem of ransom malware has reached epidemic proportions and could be extracting fraudulent payments from as many as 3 …
Intel ships 60-core Xeon Phi processor
Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first …
Fujitsu starts ‘personal cloud’ tests
Fujitsu has unveiled its Fujitsu Personal Cloud concept, which it says is designed to make “substantial savings” in comparison to …
Symantec reveals new encryption options for Apple, Dropbox
Symantec this week announced two new data encryption options, one that is file-based encryption for use with Dropbox, and the …
Microsoft announces strategic partnership with Westcon Convergence
Microsoft has announced a new strategic global partnership with the value added distributor Westcon Convergence. Westcon Middle East is a value-add distributor of convergence, security, networking and mobility products and services, covering the Middle East, Pakistan and North Africa regions.