Deutsche Bank has appointed Kim Hammonds as chief information officer (CIO) and global co-head of group technology and operations (GTO).
FVC highlights new vendors
FVC ramped up its annual participation in GITEX this year, thanks to the addition of four new vendor-partners to its portfolio.
Huawei to invest £373m in 5G research over next five years
Chinese networking giant Huawei announced yesterday that it plans to spend a minimum of $600 million (£373 million) over the next five years on 5G – the next-generation network that is already being hailed as the successor to 4G.
Dell’s global solution centre to open in Dubai
The company plans to focus more in the Middle East region, as it is a strategic and growing market. The new centre will allow customers to come with their own code and test the solutions before they purchase it.
BYOD Summit 2013 will be region’s first conference dedicated to BYOD
CNME is this week set to host its BYOD Summit 2013, the Middle East’s first technology to conference dedicated entirely to the bring-your-own-device trend.
FBI offers $50,000 reward for ‘Lover Spy’ malware writer
The FBI has offered large rewards for information that could help them catch a clutch of alleged cyber-criminals.
IDC: EMC’s solutions save businesses $3million per year
IDC have released the results of a study which says that EMC’s backup and recovery solutions are measurably improving businesses.
Management vendors race to help move BlackBerry users to Android and iOS
Mobile management vendors including Good Technology and MobileIron are increasing their efforts to pitch Android and iOS as alternatives to BlackBerry, thanks to improved security and management tools.
Judge hits IBM in CIA cloud case
IBM was accused by a federal court of “gamesmanship” in its bid for the CIA’s cloud computing contract. The accusation is part of a ruling unsealed Friday.
Snowden serves up another lesson on insider threats
The Edward Snowden saga continues to serve up valuable lessons on the dangers posed to enterprise data by insiders with privileged access to systems and networks. The latest lesson involves the risks of allowing password sharing among employees.
Wall Street Beat: Does Twitter IPO signal a tech bubble?
Despite the frothy headlines stirred by Twitter’s initial public offering, tech is not in a bubble of the sort that arose before the 2000 dot-com crash.
Apple’s Siri chief now building connected device platform at Samsung
The engineer who oversaw development of Apple’s Siri technology is now at Samsung building an online service to link together the “Internet of things.”
R&M announces new Venus SCM Solution
Cabling vendor R&M has unveiled its new Venus SCM Solution, which it says can offer a minimum bending radius of 40 millimeters.
Websense boosts its Triton solution
New features include inline sandboxing defenses, malware isolation, phishing education and new platform support
Google’s secret proposals leaked as dismay over EU antitrust inquiry grows
Google’s secret proposals leaked as dismay over EU antitrust inquiry grows
Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud
Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well.
Intel regroups to address small devices, wearable tech, DIY crowd
Intel is focusing its attention to small electronics, wearable technology and the do-it-yourself crowd, establishing a new business group to address those market segments.
Employees easily tricked on social media prime phishing attacks
Spear phishing is one of the most effective ways to break into a corporate network – and recent studies show that employees can be easily tricked on social media to provide the information needed to launch attacks.
Bugs & Fixes: A roundup of Mavericks troubleshooting tips
Apple’s latest operating system update, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, is out. If you own a Mac that supports the OS update, you should get it. Now. You certainly can’t beat the price: free!
Found: 30 unmanaged servers that shouldn’t be
We just found 30 servers that can’t be accounted for. Thirty Internet-facing servers with no malware protection and patchy histories. I need to take a deep breath and figure out just how bad this is and what we can do to stop this sort of thing from happening again.