A fundamental change in server architecture could be on tap as companies look to cut data centre costs and power consumption. …
Vendor value add
IBM brings its partners a number of support initiatives to help them play a greater part in the company’s route to expansion through 2015. Mark Hennessy, GM, IBM Global Partners and Midmarket, tells us more while Ilse Cilliers, VP Global Business Partners, MEA gives us the regional take.
Expanding horizons
Mohammed Amin, EMC’s Senior VP and Regional Manager for Turkey, Emerging Africa and the Middle East, will now also oversee …
HP takes aim at Cisco, Juniper with SDN market invasion
HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging …
Clear skies ahead or a storm brewing?
In the month that CNME conducts Cloud Congress 2012, Ben Rossi brings together thoughts and perspectives from regional end-users and …
Microsoft to invest in growing Chinese market
Microsoft has said it is increasing its investment in China as it looks to take advantage of the growing market. …
Hitachi increases focus on big data, ‘social innovation’
Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to …
Data across borders
Today’s digital economy is heavily driven by the ability to seamlessly transfer enormous volumes of data around the world. However, …
What's on the agenda at Oracle's OpenWorld conference?
With Oracle now in a self-imposed “quiet period” prior to its next quarterly earnings release, it’s not likely the company will make …
BYOD doesn’t have to be a headache
The BYOD trend is fast gaining in the traction in the Middle East. Ramzi Itani, channel and alliance director – MENA believes this trend is making VARs sit up and take notice in order to effectively secure multiple devices across their own organisations as well as those of their customers.
Wearable technology to generate $6bn
Wearable, wireless devices capable of offering real-time data such as personal health information is expected to grow from 14 million …
Worldwide bank IT spending to continue growing through 2015
Worldwide bank IT spending is forecast to grow, with a 5.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to a recently …
Microsoft blames Azure outage on a configuration error
A system configuration mistake caused the outage that affected Windows Azure customers in western Europe last week, according to Microsoft. …
Rackspace OpenStack will target Amazon customers
Rackspace has announced that it will launch its open source infrastructure-as-a-service platform, OpenStack, in mid-August in the UK, where it …
Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack
Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into …
Playing catch-up
As infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models gain popularity in the U.S. and Western Europe, adoption amongst Middle East enterprises remains low. …
Data centre design boasts 'world's most efficient cooling system'
A new kind of data centre claiming to employ “the world’s most efficient cooling system” turns the traditionally unbearable “hot aisle” between server racks …
Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
Oracle said yesterday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will …
Huawei eyes storage market
China’s Huawei Technologies wants to take a bigger bite out of the enterprise market with a wider range of storage …
Jumbo savings
Powered by a private cloud, Gulf Air, the principal carrier of Bahrain, has been able to transform itself into a …