Amazon will pay $970 million to acquire Twitch, a site for live video broadcasts of people’s video gaming sessions.
Champions of value-addition
Value-added distribution has been a buzz word in the last few years with everyone aspiring to be one. However, what constitutes to be a VAD differs from payer to player. Reseller Middle East looks into what it takes to be a true VAD.
Gartner: Internet of Things has reached hype peak
The Internet of Things has reached the height of its hype, according to Gartner. Each year the research firm puts …
Gulf Air appointed to SITA council
Following a nomination by the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO), Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier, has recently …
Rack to the future
Data centre technology is rapidly changing. With the advent of virtualisation and increasing speed and agility may come a sense of impending doom for IT staff. However, more efficient centres do not necessarily mean the end of a robust technical department.
Talking shop
Reseller Middle East’s fifth annual Partner Excellence Conference rallied together the channel community to discuss emerging market trends and evolving business operations.
In the bank
With a range of forecasts from research firms Gartner and IDC stating that MENA IT spending will increase in 2014, will CIOs find their budgets swelling, and if so, which areas are most in need of the spend? Who stands to benefit and what can the Middle East do to catch up with more developed regions?
Oracle to buy $5.3 billion retail tech vendor Micros
Oracle will buy hospitality and retail technology vendor Micros Systems for US$5.3 billion, in a deal that will be its largest since the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.
Up to capacity
As companies adopt technologies such as cloud and virtualisation, the practice of planning for network capacity to meet the bandwidth and application performance needs must also change. Network capacity planning and management has long been considered the black magic of the IT industry. How does one predict the future? How can you prepare for the additional demand for resources while avoiding over-provisioning?
EAI promise
An enterprise application integration offers several rewards eliminating the cost of application development and improving user experience to name just two. But with the integration comes an array of complications that can require centralised policies. CNME takes a look at the rewards and boons of EAIs.
Red Hat adds to OpenStack expertise with eNovance buy
Red Hat is filling out its OpenStack portfolio by acquiring eNovance, a provider of integration services, for approximately $95 million …
Amazon enters smartphone market with ‘Fire’
Amazon unveiled its highly anticipated entry into the smartphone market Wednesday, a handset called “Fire.” The phone, announced by CEO …
Cynosure Solutions achieves ISO 9001:2008 certification
Cynosure Solutions, an enterprise IT solutions and services provider in the Middle East, Europe and Africa region, has announced that it is now certified as ISO 9001:2008 compliant organisation.
FDC and Synology organise partner conference
Synology, the Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions provider, along with its Middle East distributor partner, FDC had organised a reseller conference recently to discuss sales and impart technical training to the partners.
Aptec, Ingram Micro organises Solutions Forum for resellers in Kuwait
Aptec, Ingram Micro Inc. has announced that the company concluded Solutions Forum for reseller partners in Kuwait, last week. The event saw the gathering of more than 100 people from the reseller community, representing more than 70 IT reseller companies, mostly senior executives and owners.
Three sourcing options for government shared services
Pressure is growing on government shared-service organisations to cut costs and improve services. Across the globe and at all levels of government, budget austerity and organisational reforms are pressuring IT and non-IT shared-service providers to deliver cost optimisation and improve service delivery.
Global Distribution signs ME agreement with Pure Storage
Global Distribution FZE has announced that it has signed a Master Distribution Agreement with Pure Storage and will distribute the Pure Storage FlashArray enterprise storage solution to its Resellers in the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Virtual lock down
Virtualisation has made the data centre a more flexible and agile place. However, the trade-off in this software-defined shift is a measure of complexity when it comes to protecting our data. Enterprises must reconsider their protection strategy to reflect the new, virtualised world.
Huawei predicts eight billion smartphone users by 2025
Eight billion people will use smartphones and 100 billion terminals will be interconnected via the internet by 2025, according to Chinese ICT multinational Huawei.
Gartner: Most CIOs will change tech and sourcing relationships
A recent global survey by Gartner finds 70 per cent of CIOs will change their technology and sourcing relationships in the next two to three years, as organisations struggle to adjust to a digital future.