Dell’s plan to buy Wyse Technology is an effort to boost its client hardware portfolio and protect the company from …
Mobile OSes impede adoption of BYOD trend: Ovum
Mobile operating systems (OSes) are impeding the adoption of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, according to research agency Ovum. “Businesses moving …
Mobile malware incidents on rise, says smartphone survey
The cost-saving culture of bring-your-own-device smartphones is tempting enterprises into taking risks they would not contemplate for conventional computing devices, …
Venture capital poured into enterprise software in Q1
The buttoned-down IT industry outshone flashy consumer internet startups at raising money in the first quarter, logging a big increase …
Comguard stages first Channel Partner Conference for the region
Comguard, a Dubai based value added distributor for IT security products and solutions in the Middle East and North Africa …
SafeNet appoints Miguel Braojos to head Middle East and Africa Region
SafeNet, a provider of data protection solutions today announced the appointment of Miguel Braojos as vice president of sales Southern …
HP says commercial software vulnerabilities down almost 20% across industry
A study done by HP shows that reported vulnerabilities in commercial software applications dropped dramatically last year compared with 2010 – but …
Apple, Oracle, Google lead major vendors with software vulnerabilities in Q1
Apple led all major technology vendors in reported vulnerabilities in its operating system and software during the first three months …
Symform has a cloud without a data centre, says co-founder
Symform co-founder and president Praerit Garg says there’s something wrong with the way data is being stored in public clouds …
Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards by 2020, experts say
More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, …
Website vulnerabilities fall, but hackers become more skilled
The number of coding mistakes on websites continues to fall but companies are slow to fix issues that could be …
SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses
Cloud storage service provider SpiderOak is taking on Dropbox, Box and other more established services with what it calls the …
Out of the box
Storage is a continuing story as vendors consistently innovate to help businesses cope with increasing amounts of data. Pallavi Sharma …
Changing the game
Most of the global headlines of the past month were stolen by IT infrastructure leader Dell’s acquisition of SonicWall, the …
Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio
Rackspace has unveiled an “early access” limited-availability edition of its updated public cloud environment, built on the open source cloud …
LogMeIn takes on Dropbox with ‘Cubby’ cloud storage
Cloud storage leader Dropbox might have serious competition at last. LogMeIn has announced the beta of its rival ‘Cubby’ service, …
Intel targeting Ivy Bridge processors at Windows 8 tablets
Intel’s upcoming Core i-series processors based on the Ivy Bridge architecture are being pitched at ultrabooks, but the company is …
HP appoints Comguard as authorised training partner for HP ArcSight in MENA
Comguard, a Dubai based value added distributor for IT security products and solutions in the Middle East and North Africa …
Microsoft to start charging for Bing search API
Microsoft will begin charging developers to use the API (application programming interface) for its Bing search engine, the company has announced. …
help AG wins Palo Alto Networks’ ‘Reseller of the Year 2011’ Award for the UAE
Palo Alto Networks has presented help AG, a strategic information security consulting specialist in the Middle East, with the ‘Reseller …