The main objective for the Actifio Founder’s Club is to reward resellers for their early adoption and efforts to Actifio solutions into the market. Actifio intends to maintain the exclusivity of the club by hand picking the partners who are invited to join.
Facebook users to receive notifications from apps
Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to …
IBM and Oracle unveil rival chips for Unix servers
IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ …
Staying relevant – 8 ways to advance your IT career
In today’s economy, it’s important to stay current in your industry. Keeping up with the latest trends and technologies is …
Cloud security firm Zscaler receives $38M funding
Cloud-security provider Zscaler has announced it has received $38 million in venture-capital funding, naming Lightspeed Ventures as a strategic investor but not …
GITEX Preview: SafeNet
1. What are your company’s key products and services? SafeNet is the largest company in the world exclusively focused on …
Know your way around SkyDrive for Android
Microsoft has launched a SkyDrive app for Android devices after releasing a similar app for iOS devices in December. Just like SkyDrive for …
TomTom announces navigation app for Android
TomTom plans to launch a navigation app for Android smartphones in October, the company said at the IFA trade …
New SAP software offers '360-degree' insight into IT environments
SAP customers now have an additional tool to manage their technology landscapes in the form of SAP IT Infrastructure Management, …
ComGuard and WildPackets set to host a series of regional roundtables
Comguard and WildPackets are scheduled to host two roundtables in the UAE on the 10th and 11th of September 2012 and intend to take these roundtables to Bahrain, Kuwait, KSA, Oman and Qatar.
HP-Oracle Itanium ruling is final, setting up jury trial
A judge’s order that Oracle must keep porting its software to HP’s Itanium platform is now final, setting the stage …
Itqan listed among finalists for the Microsoft Server Platform Partner of the Year
Itqan Al-Bawardi Computers has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Server Platform Partner of the Year Award.
IBM improves high-end mainframe speed, capacity
IBM has continued the evolution of its mainframe family by introducing a system it says is 25% faster and has …
Tricks in your pocket
IT security threats are constantly evolving. It’s time for IT security pros to get ingenious. In that vein, we offer …
A troubled giant
RIM (Research in Motion) CEO Thorsten Heins talks on the current state of BlackBerry and how it fell from grace, …
VMware vSphere 5.1 employees EMC's Avamar backup, deduplication
VMware has announced that its vSphere cloud operating system will now come natively with EMC’s Avamar backup and recovery software, …
IT services deals decline 20% in Q2
The number of new outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20% in the second quarter, to 411 from 516 in the …
Expect huge growth of wearable tech market, researchers say
Demand for real-time data, including personal health information, will drive the market for wearable wireless devices to grow from 14 …
Getting analytics into business intelligence
Business analytics (BA) initiatives can deliver great benefits. They involve getting the means to address the organisational dynamics associated with …
Will Android users switch to the iPhone 5?
Unless you’ve been living under a server farm for the past few months — subsisting on Ethernet cables and waste heat — …