In early May, I was one of the fortunate few in the UAE to have had a BlackBerry PlayBook in …
Microsoft, Citrix join VMware at top of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
It’s getting harder for VMware to argue that it’s the only game in town for big-time virtualisation projects. Sure, every …
Courting success
Dubai Courts continues to invest in and grow its online presence as it works to expand and improve the services …
Speaking in code
Most of the time, what we coin as new technologies are just standard improvements on older versions in the steady …
IBM’s Blue Gene retains green supercomputer crown
The ‘greenest’ supercomputer in the world is still made by IBM, which has taken the first two sports on the latest …
DWTC chooses eHDF for disaster recovery
Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), one of the most prestigious and largest exhibition centres in the Middle East, has chosen …
Apple asks for preliminary injunction against Samsung sales
Apple took its patent infringement suit against Samsung to the next level when it asked the U.S. District Court to …
Oracle aims ‘Exastack’ program at ISVs
Oracle is hoping to convince independent software vendors to certify and run their products on its high-end Exadata and Exalogic …
Aerohive updates its 802.11n WLAN software
Aerohive Networks has released new wireless LAN software, with new mobile device management and spectrum analysis features. The changes are being …
Travel firms ‘unsure’ about DR plans, says City Lifeline
A third of IT managers and users in the travel sector are “unsure” that their disaster recovery plans would work …
Enterprise Java upgrade geared to PaaS clouds
The next version of enterprise Java will be fitted with capabilities for PaaS (platform-as-a-service) cloud computing, an Oracle official said …
Rebates, incentives, loyalty programmes, promotions: What works?
By any theory of channel marketing these are established instruments of “reward power”. However with shorter life cycles and new …
Toshiba’s enhanced VAR and retail programs
With sluggish corporate sales Toshiba is enhancing its VAR program and regional super retail strategy The upheavals of the region …
Crypto Dual drive
Crypto Dual drive from Integral Memory The Integral Crypto Dual is a 256-bit AES hardware encryption USB flash drive that …
Xerox’ colour MFP for SMBs
Xerox is helping SMBscreate professional-looking documents without busting budgets with two new printers and a MFP that delivers high-quality colour …
Equinox Egypt strikes Cisco gold
Equinox Egypt has achieved Cisco Gold Certification in Egypt. To earn Gold Certification, Equinox Egypt had to meet rigorous standards set …
OBS, Sita to build a global cloud infrastructure
SITA, the air transport industry IT specialist, and Orange Business Services (OBS), the leading global integrated communications service provider for …
Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage again
Microsoft’s BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage yesterday, the latest in a string of technical problems in …
CFOs lack faith in CIOs, survey shows
Increasingly, it’s the chief financial officer (CFO) who has direct oversight of the IT department and IT-related spending, but it …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …