By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, …
Oracle gearing up for more purchases
Ever-acquisitive Oracle apparently has no immediate plans to stop buying up companies, as indicated by a US$3.25 billion debt issue …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Haider Khan
Haider has over 17 years experience in the ICT industry covering the United Kingdom, The Isle of Man, The Channel …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Tareque Choudhury
Prior to BT Tareque held positions with Secure Computing CyberGuard, AT&T Canada and IBM Canada. Tareque holds a Masters in …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker:Fadi Hindi
Fadi Hindi is the Head of Strategic IT Planning & Enterprise Architecture at Dubai Customs. Hindi has eighteen years …
10 IDC tech predictions 2010
1. Next year will be the year of the private cloud. Most IT managers have already begun to offer service-oriented …
Being counterintuitive
In a world where most people use computers at home, where the Internet is a basic medium for everyone and …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
Forming links
It is a well documented fact that the Middle East remains a largely IT hardware market to date. As the …
Stuck with a duopoly
Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either Oracle or IBM? Loosely defined as software …
A datacentre with that server?
Faced with the continued commoditisation of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward …
Dell to acquire storage vendor Ocarina Networks
Dell announced Monday that it plans to acquire Ocarina Networks, a maker of hardware and software designed to reduce the …
The Avaya FAQ
Can you describe Avaya's ownership? The company has been owned by private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG since …
Red Hat launches hybrid cloud platform
Red Hat has launched a comprehensive package, called Red Hat Cloud Foundations, that will allow organizations to run applications in …
Brocade aims high
At its annual Brocade Technology Day held in New York, the company took the wraps off Brocade One – its …
What's New in Microsoft OCS 14?
Code-named OCS 14, the new suite will include more voice features and will be the final wave in the full …
Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data centre plans
Indeed, the Enterasys strategy is built on the capabilities of its switches to provide visibility into and automation of data …
Cisco vs Juniper
The argument began in 1996 with Juniper's founding; until then, Cisco had ruled the router roost in both the enterprise …
HP appoints Hussein Hamza as new Egypt MD
In this role, Hamza will provide leadership for HP’s enterprise business in the country while building close customer relationships to …