The second annual GCC Software Congress 2011 brought together multiple stakeholders from the IT industry to discuss the interlinking nature …
UAE’s YSA upgrades to HP networking tools
The UAE’s General Authority of Youth and Sports Welfare (YSA) has upgraded its entire network with HP Networking products to …
BCS launches career planning tool
IT professionals will be able to plan how their careers develop more clearly with a new Career Paths tool from …
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 …
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 …
Crypto Dual drive
Crypto Dual drive from Integral Memory The Integral Crypto Dual is a 256-bit AES hardware encryption USB flash drive that …
Citi hackers make $2.7 million
Citigroup suffered about US$2.7 million in losses after hackers found a way to steal credit card numbers from its website …
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 …
Windows OS going strong, Windows IE on the decline: Forrester
A new study of corporate operating system and browser trends by Forrester Research reveals both good news and bad news …
Samsung debuts Galaxy SII
Samsung Electronics has launched its Smartphone, the GALAXY S II in the Middle East. The widely anticipated smartphone has the …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
IBM unveils SmartCloud for DR
IBM today announced new cloud services that enable clients to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes …
HP unveils thin client virtualisation solutions
Faced with increasing competition and a fast paced global environment organisations are making investments in strategic IT investments that enable …
Al Fahim Group deploys SunGard’s treasury management tool
Al Fahim Group, a large conglomerate with diversified businesses across the UAE, has selected SunGard’s AvantGard Treasury to help further …
Storm that cometh
Virtualisation and cloud technologies are storming their way into enterprise infrastructure deployments. But, what happens to networks and their management, …
China scores top spot for malware production: BitDefender
BitDefender, a provider of internet security solutions, announced the publication of its H1 2011 E-Threat Landscape Report, a study regarding …
ICANN approves new generic top-level domains
ICANN’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s …
Cloud now used by 80% of firms: Capgemini
A worldwide survey of 1,250 C-level executives and IT directors shows that 81% of firms have already moved at least …
People and processes – barriers to cloud: VMware
People and processes are barriers to cloud adoption, not technology and security, according to VMware. “Technologically, the issues [around cloud …