Orange Business Services, the B2B arm of France Telecom, has signed a three-year agreement with OSN – Orbit Showtime Network …
Oracle customers using Itanium chips rethink IT upgrades
Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said …
Living on a prayer
By Valeria Camerino On the notes of a security-inspired version of Bon Jovi’s “Living on a prayer”, the 20th edition …
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 …
A flat future
All of a sudden, data centre networking has gone from ho-hum to hot. The status quo — that hierarchical, three-tier …
Back to normal?
Telecom equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent saw losses grow and revenue drop during the first three months of 2010. Although, positive signs …
Geared for growth
What brings you to town? We had our quarter business review here with our worldwide executive team. It’s a great …
What next for Novell?
In an era of technology industry consolidation, the questions raised by Novell's sale to Attachmate for $2.2 billion ought to …
Data centre cabling warnings
The cabling vendor has also cautioned against the use of non-standards compliant 26AWG conductor cabling. To ensure 10GBASE-T capability, Siemon …
HP refreshes financing offering
HP Financial Services offers flexible financing that enables companies to refresh their data centre technology and transition to next generation …
Path to success
Effat University has chosen and built on SunGard’s solution to ensure a digital campus that works efficiently and helps improve …
Reaping rewards
HCL BPO, a division of HCL Technologies Limited, is a dominant player in the business process outsourcing (BPO) field with …
CIOs demand simplified unified networks: report
Alberto Soto, Brocade vice president, EMEA In a bid to increase network performance, simplify management and enhance business efficiency, more …
Slick Support
In the UAE, Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) does not require an introduction. One of those rare organisations that touch …
Managing growth
NWME: What level of investment are you seeing in telecom infrastructure from operators across the region so far this year? …
In with flat panels
With the younger generation beginning to use touch-screen computers ahead of enterprises, research firm Gartner is predicting that more than …
Time for change
Breaking up is hard to do. And when it comes to IT outsourcing, it can be expensive and risky, too. …
10 IDC tech predictions 2010
1. Next year will be the year of the private cloud. Most IT managers have already begun to offer service-oriented …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
Building the region
“Last year was a challenging environment,” Balall Yaqub says with some understatement. As group CEO of Emitac, he takes a …