Cisco Systems has teamed up with Xerox to create a mobile printing system that lets users print from any device …
EPM tools still underutilised: report
Oracle released today an independent research report conducted by Dynamic Markets that surveyed 1499 managers from both public and private …
EMC announces Project Lightning
EMC today outlined an aggressive strategy designed to accelerate the adoption and innovative use of flash storage technology in information …
EMC delivers Hadoop for the enterprise
EMC Corporation today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software used for data-intensive …
EMC’s Isilon launches single file system
EMC today introduced the Isilon 108NL scale-out NAS hardware product, what it claims is the world’s largest single file system. …
A matter of scale
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is one of the largest hotel groups globally, with around 97 properties in the Middle East …
Dell works towards faster virtualisation
Dell announced today a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualised environments. “The PowerEdge …
UPMC and Alcatel-Lucent develop telemedicine platform
UPMC and Alcatel-Lucent have signed an agreement to jointly develop a telemedicine platform and suite of applications that will enable …
Dell to set up global solutions centre in Dubai
Dell plans to set up a global solutions centre in Dubai, which will serve as hub for the Middle East …
Google Android OS going strong: Canalys
Market research firm Canalys has given Google’s Android OS a 35% share of the smartphone market for the first quarter …
Iomega launches NAS storage line for SMEs
EMC subsidiary Iomega today unveiled a new series of simple disk storage arrays aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses and remote …
Juniper rolls out latest Cisco challenge
Juniper Networks this week is rolling out its first dedicated line of enterprise edge routers, a collection of products that borrow …
Motorola jacks up high-end 802.11n Wi-Fi controller capacity tenfold
Motorola Solutions Tuesday recast its enterprise WLAN product line with a new range of one- and two-radio 802.11n Wi-Fi access …
Brocade developing 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel
Brocade Technologies, which announced 16G bps (bit-per-second) Fibre Channel products on Monday, is already working on a 32G bps version …
Brocade unveils vision for the virtual enterprise
Brocade today introduced a new technology architecture – the CloudPlex – that outlines the company’s vision and the technology investments …
Brocade announces cloud-optimised solutions for service providers
Brocade today announced innovative new cloud-optimised networking solutions to enable the next evolution in public cloud infrastructures. These advancements will …
Vendors collaborate with end users for efficient IT solutions
The recent increase in end user conferences in the region suggests that vendors are beginning to realise that their customers …
Configuration error lead to cloud outage: Amazon
Amazon has released a detailed postmortem and mea culpa about the partial outage of its cloud services platform last week …
RIM announces two new BlackBerry Bold phones
Research in Motion announced two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones on Monday that run on a new BlackBerry 7 operating system …
What comes round
When I first started writing about enterprise IT, some 25 years ago, there were three key areas of interest for …