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 …
VMware to buy Digital Fuel
VMware is to acquire Digital Fuel Technologies, a vendor of IT financial management software that helps companies determine the cost …
Each to their own
Has cloud computing reached its absolute peak in terms of hype? The topic makes for animated discussions at technology seminars these days and the hype seems to have reached a crescendo, making it really difficult to separate fact from fiction.
Rackspace offers hosted virtual desktops from Citrix
Rackspace hopes to make using virtual desktops easier by hosting Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, it announced on Monday. Enterprises will …
Into the vortex
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Not without the proper service level agreements (SLAs) – contracts that specify quality …
EMC unveils service provider program
EMC Corporation today unveiled a multi-faceted program that enables service provider partners to create, deploy, market, sell and deliver EMC-powered …
EMC expands VPlex capability
EMC Corporation today announced new EMC VPlex Geo technology enabling the resources of disparate storage systems in geographically dispersed data …
Gartner outlines data management trends
As the master data management (MDM) market grows and matures, new trends will help shape its evolution, according to Gartner. …
IBM products aim to speed up, automate virtualisation
IBM is aiming to make it easier for enterprises to manage their virtualised environments, with new features in the Tivoli …
UAE’s CIOs talk consolidation and virtualisation at CPI roundtable
By Sathya Mithra Ashok Hardware that is not yet ready for virtual platforms, licensing issues with software and the persistent …
Red Hat acquires Makara
Makara's technologies will accelerate the development of Red Hat's comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio. …
Red Hat acquires Makara
Based in California, Makara provides solutions to enable organisations to deploy, manage, monitor and scale their applications on both private …
The power of one
NWME: In June, you have unveiled Brocade One converged data centre strategy and product plans. Have you been able to …
On an upturn
Where does Riverbed go beyond WAN optimisation? You are a dominant player, but the danger is that you become a …