Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …
US government CIO joins Salesforce
The U.S federal government’s first ever CIO Vivek Kundra has joined Salesforce as executive vice president of emerging markets. “Excited …
Office 365: Microsoft rolls it out
A new paradigm of unified computing, targeted at small and medium enterprises, is being rolled out across the region. So …
Technology for a new year
Gartner has revealed its top predictions for IT organisations and users for 2012 and beyond, and they herald changes in …
Good on HANA: SAP
SAP executives provided new details about the company’s plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping …
The future awaits
As organisations in the region prep their strategies for another tough year, Pallavi Sharma speaks to regional vendors to discuss …
Defending their PaaS territory
Independent platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) …
EMEA enterprise IT spend will decline: Gartner
Enterprise IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will reach €604 billion in 2011, a 1.4% decline …
Citrix expands on BYOD message at Citrix Synergy 2011
The start of Citrix’s Synergy Summit 2011 yesterday in Barcelona, Spain, saw Mark Templeton, CEO of the company, introduce the …
Oracle buys RightNow for $1.5bn
Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service …
Red Hat to acquire Gluster for $136 mn
Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement …
Worldwide enterprise IT spending to reach $2.7 tn in 2012, Gartner says
Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012, a 3.9 percent increase from 2011 spending of …
Dell ups the ante on helping customers unlock innovation for the virtual era
On the cusp of Dell World 2011, Dell last week announced continued customer and partner momentum for its enterprise and …
HP completes Autonomy acquisition
Hewlett-Packard has secured enough shares of Autonomy to take control of the U.K. software company, HP announced Monday. Shareholders owning …
OpenLogic to launch tool to build open source software support
Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of …
MEA region strategic to growth: EMC
EMC describes itself as a “global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information …
Microsoft revamps retail and consumer focus
A new consumer focussed group is being created to enhance excitement across the portfolio An exciting moment at DCC 2011, …
Long path ahead
In an interview, Brocade CEO Michael Klayko said Fibre Channel is here to stay but the company has no “religion” …
PCI Council releases guidelines on compliance in VMs
Enterprises got some much needed clarification on the implementation of PCI requirements in virtualised environments recently. The PCI Security Standards …