Western Digital announced yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), …
Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010
Last year, hard disk drive manufacturers shipped 5,127 petabytes of storage capacity, a 55.7% increase over 2009, according to a …
IT graduates not “well-trained”
There is a disconnect between students getting high-tech degrees and what employers are looking for in those graduates. Employers agree …
SAP bets on in-memory, mobility in new BI release
SAP is hoping to gain ground in the increasingly heated market for BI (business intelligence) software, announcing a suite on …
Zebra Technologies unveils ISV programme
As an element of Zebra’s channel development strategy, the ISV programme highlights the importance Zebra places on the ISV’s role …
Staffing dominates regional CIO challenges: IDC
By Sathya Mithra Ashok Staffing issues, including recruitment, retention and development, will remain the biggest challenge for regional CIOs in …
Obama seeks big boost in cybersecurity spending
The White House is proposing a big increase in cybersecurity research and development in next year’s budget to improve, in …
Qatar Exchange chooses Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux
Red Hat today announced that the Qatar Exchange, the principal stock market of Qatar and one of the leading stock …
China builds cloud computing city
China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data centre, one of the …
EMC’s Greenplum offers ‘data’ at no charge
EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining …
HP lays Neoview to rest
Hewlett-Packard has officially consigned its Neoview to history, less than four years after introducing it to the market as the …
In the virtual realm
The high-end furniture retailer THE One first opened its store in Abu Dhabi way back in 1996. Ever since the …
90% of Microsoft software in China is pirated: Ballmer
While Chinese President Hu Jintao knew he’d face some tough questions when he came to the United States this week, …
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant disses Amazon cloud
Gartner's Magic Quadrant report has placed Amazon's cloud computing service in one of its lower tiers, saying that for all …
Juniper targets cloud, mobile Internet in 2011
In cloud computing, Juniper this year will unleash products to support its Project Stratus plan to deliver a flat, unified …
SAP expands footprint in Egypt
Business software provider SAP recently appointed a new country GM in Egypt, Amr Ghoneim, a move the vendor believes will …
Avaya upgrades ACE software
Avaya is announcing a software add-on for Microsoft's Office Communicator clients that make the clients interoperable with Avaya's IP PBXs …
BMC buys GridApp for cloud database automation
BMC Software has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical and cloud …
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 …
Cloud computing dominates IDC conference agenda
Running under the theme 'Building a Smarter Infrastructure', the event attracted more than 170 of the UAE's most prominent IT …