Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Telecom service providers should boost efforts in APAC: Ovum
Global telecoms service providers are only scratching the surface of the huge business opportunity in Asia-Pacific, and need to redouble …
Brocade to exhibit cloud-optimised networking solutions at GITEX Cloud Confex 2011
Brocade has announced that it will be exhibiting at GITEX Cloud Confex and showcasing its comprehensive portfolio of solutions for …
Nexans to highlight LAN infrastructure solutions at GITEX 2011
Nexans, a cabling solutions provider, today announced that it is participating in GITEX Technology Week 2011 along with its distributor, …
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 …
Google CIO: don’t fight consumerisation of IT
In a interview, Google CIO Ben Fried talked about letting go. That may sound a bit “Zen Buddhist,” but it’s …
eHDF to highlight managed IT services at GITEX 2011
Managed IT services and the business benefits of adopting the pay-as-you-go model in the region is one of the key …
Microsoft’s IE9-first strategy fails to stem browser slide
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) last month continued to shed users, losing the largest chunk of share since December 2010, Web …
Ellison unveils ‘Exalytics’ in-memory machine
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled the Exalytics Intelligence Machine, the latest member of the company’s products that combine software and …
NEC to showcase solutions for Middle East SMB and enterprise markets at GITEX 2011
NEC Corporation will once again be present at GITEX Technology Week, scheduled to run between October 9-13, 2011, and will …
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to debut at GITEX
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a division of Alcatel-Lucent, will have an increased presence at Gulfcomms 2011, as part of GITEX 2011, the …
Sophos to tap demand for integrated security solutions at GITEX
As more companies in the Middle East move towards consolidating their IT security requirements into one integrated solution, global IT …
Google launches paid premium version of Analytics
Google has developed a paid version of its Analytics website usage monitoring service that offers better performance, more sophisticated features …
Nokia Siemens wins $700M contract from Airtel in Africa
With Bharti Airtel moving to expand its operations in Africa, global telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks has bagged a …
Gitex, Reseller, Reseller ME, Gitex Technology Week, ABBYY, ABBYY in GITEX with Arabic OCR, Dubai, UAEABBYY in GITEX with Arabic OCR
ABBYY, a provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, together with Al Hosani Computer LLC, software …
Juniper takes on Cisco, HP in ‘simple’ networking
Juniper this week unveiled a portfolio of switching, wireless and security products designed to enable enterprises to easily deploy them …
Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI
Microstrategy is hoping to get its BI (business intelligence) software in front of people looking to get more out of …
Asian enterprises revise information security strategies
Asian enterprises are revising their information security strategies, according to a newly released broad-based IT security survey by Fortinet. 74% …
SPEC tool to improve server-efficiency ratings
SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has developed a tool-kit to help more accurately measure the energy efficiency of …
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire, its entry into the tablet fray
Amazon unveiled its tablet computer, the US$199 Android-based Kindle Fire, yesterday during a Manhattan launch event. The Wi-Fi-only tablet has …