Microsoft has predicted by the end of 2013 one third of workers will work mobile, as opposed to operating in …
Top 5 information management and backup trend predictions for 2012: Symantec
“Backup Fights Back in 2012” You can’t call backup boring anymore. Data is exploding year on year. The backup market …
Nokia brings big data to mobile
Nokia Siemens Networks plans to bring big data analytics to mobile operators, by introducing a new software on Tuesday designed …
“I do not believe a regional broad line distributor can become a true VAD”
Dr Ali Baghdadi, CEO and President of Aptec Group In 1980, Baghdadi formed Aptec Distribution to bring appropriate technologies …
Survival of the fittest
The past year has given enough reason for regional enterprises to begin investing in a robust business continuity (BC) and …
Organised for speed
The UAE-based Al Shirawi Group is one of the largest manufacturing, engineering, distribution, contracting and services industries conglomerates in the …
VMTurbo upgrade supports virtualisation platforms
VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool. With …
Do and re-do
Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …
Outlook 2012, Government up, corporate down
Desktop virtualisation and cloud technologies will further penetrate into all sizes of enterprise and into new industry sectors. We will …
Good on HANA: SAP
SAP executives provided new details about the company’s plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping …
The future awaits
As organisations in the region prep their strategies for another tough year, Pallavi Sharma speaks to regional vendors to discuss …
Defending their PaaS territory
Independent platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) …
Asia Pacific enterprises standardise on Ethernet fabrics
Enterprises across the Asia Pacific are standardising on Ethernet fabric technology, according to a new research report from Frost & …
A solutions company
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell outlines the company’s aggressive plans to grow its portfolio of solutions by acquiring more intellectual …
EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage
EMC held its user forum last week and used the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualisation and the …
Microsoft quarter shows continued growth
Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012 with solid growth, reporting a 7% increase in revenue compared to …
IBM introduces new systems to accelerate smarter computing
In the largest update to its systems portfolio this year, IBM today announced 55 new and updated server and storage …
EMC, VCE announce tighter Vblock integration
EMC and the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) alliance yesterday announced that EMC’s management tools have been upgraded to more tightly …
Dell ups the ante on helping customers unlock innovation for the virtual era
On the cusp of Dell World 2011, Dell last week announced continued customer and partner momentum for its enterprise and …