This Saturday, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day. DPD, as it’s known, is a day to “increase awareness of privacy and …
Yahoo revenue and net income both declined year on year in Q4
Yahoo struggled selling both display and search advertising in the fourth quarter, as its revenue and net income both dropped …
Big and growing
Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. …
FVC and Zoho to bring emerging cloud apps to MENA
FVC, a Value Added Distributor in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has signed a partnership agreement with Zoho, …
Micron to acquire PCIe virtualisation vendor Virtensys
Micron Technology recently announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Virtensys, a U.K.-based provider of PCIe-sharing products. No financial …
Google shuts down multiple services
Google will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase, amongst changes to other services, it announced on Friday. Google …
Intel makes management changes
Intel has appointed a new chief operating officer and new heads to run the PC and data centre groups, it …
Intel reports strong Q4 revenue
Intel reported strong revenue and profit growth in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, overcoming a sharp drop in revenue …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
The cloud CIO
Forbes recently published an interesting article written by Ed Sperling titled “CIOs: Be Careful What You Wish For.” In it, …
Crowd computing- the future?
While firms are up on their toes in their respective bids to take their companies to the cloud–touted to be …
Consolidation should be done for the future: Alcatel-Lucent
Data centre consolidation is nothing to be afraid of, and organisations should do it in preparation for the future, says …
Lost and found
Weekends normally mean a reprieve from a strenuous work environment but a recent trip to the movies turned out to …
Microsoft expands its private cloud solution in new product
Microsoft will enable customers to build private clouds by integrating eight separate component products into one unified solution, they have …
Retail banking technology spending to increase by $1.2bn this year
Retail banking technology spending in the Asia Pacific region is expected to increase by $1.2 billion this year and will …
BYOD culture does pose threat to IT security: study
Enterprises should consider the threats posed by employees who bring in their own devices and choose their own application services, …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …
Learning innovation
Although young to the UAE, the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi is making the right investments to offer a competitive …
WAN optimisation gets cloud-ready
WAN optimisation is going to be critical in guaranteeing application performance in cloud environments. WAN optimisation has been typically deployed …
Symantec turns to cloud with LiveOffice acquisition
Symantec has acquired LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based data archiving and storage, for $115 million, the companies announced yesterday. Symantec …