VMware is to acquire Digital Fuel Technologies, a vendor of IT financial management software that helps companies determine the cost …
Setting standards
Qatar First Investment Bank chooses the cloud to host its disaster recovery apps and data, and finds that it could …
Each to their own
Has cloud computing reached its absolute peak in terms of hype? The topic makes for animated discussions at technology seminars these days and the hype seems to have reached a crescendo, making it really difficult to separate fact from fiction.
Rackspace offers hosted virtual desktops from Citrix
Rackspace hopes to make using virtual desktops easier by hosting Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, it announced on Monday. Enterprises will …
Mammoet deploys Riverbed in data centres
Mammoet, a provider of heavy lifting and transport solutions, has successfully deployed 65 Riverbed Steelhead appliances across its three data …
Into the vortex
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Not without the proper service level agreements (SLAs) – contracts that specify quality …
EMC unveils service provider program
EMC Corporation today unveiled a multi-faceted program that enables service provider partners to create, deploy, market, sell and deliver EMC-powered …
IBM to support Windows servers on mainframes
IBM says it will support servers running Microsoft Windows on one of its mainframe platforms by the end of this year. …
Brocade developing 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel
Brocade Technologies, which announced 16G bps (bit-per-second) Fibre Channel products on Monday, is already working on a 32G bps version …
IBM to support Windows servers on mainframes
IBM says it will support servers running Microsoft Windows on one of its mainframe platforms by the end of this …
Shrinking data centre
Four forces operating in the market today could result in data center space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the …
Gartner highlights four data centre forces
Four forces operating in the market today could result in data centre space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the …
Khaleej Times avoids bandwidth upgrade with Riverbed
Khaleej Times, a leading newspaper in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances across its organisation to …
UAE’s CIOs talk consolidation and virtualisation at CPI roundtable
By Sathya Mithra Ashok Hardware that is not yet ready for virtual platforms, licensing issues with software and the persistent …
Gartner outlines nine data warehousing trends
CIOs need to familiarise themselves with nine key trends in data warehousing and how they will impact the cost-benefit balance …
Cisco, VMware and EMC launch new company
The new Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) company, which includes the founding vendor’s original VCE coalition, unveiled two years ago, as …
Steering Cisco’s IT ship
NWME: What is the scope of Cisco's IT operations? Jacoby: We're headquartered in San Jose, but less than 50 percent …
Red Hat acquires Makara
Makara's technologies will accelerate the development of Red Hat's comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio. …
Red Hat acquires Makara
Based in California, Makara provides solutions to enable organisations to deploy, manage, monitor and scale their applications on both private …
The pursuit of success
The Dubai-based Majid Al Futtaim Properties (MAFP) is one of the biggest shopping mall, hotels and mixed-use communities developers and …