Khaleej Times, a leading newspaper in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances across its organisation to …
Dell: ARM servers could face software issues
Dell is experimenting with chips based on ARM processors in its servers, but the architecture faces software issues that could …
SAS pushes BI to Apple’s iPad, iPhones
SAS Institute is teaming up with mobile BI (business intelligence) vendor Mellmo to bring analytic applications to Apple’s iPhone and …
VMware buys WaveMaker, aims to ease app development
VMware said yesterday it had acquired WaveMaker, the creator of open-source software that lets non-developers build Java Web applications. WaveMaker …
External storage is back from recession: Gartner
External controller-based disk storage has recovered from the global recession, exceeding the record sales figure from 2008 with revenue in …
WD acquires Hitachi’s disk drive arm
Western Digital announced yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), …
Customer sues Infor after ERP licence audit
A New York manufacturer is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor following a dispute over whether it should have …
Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010
Last year, hard disk drive manufacturers shipped 5,127 petabytes of storage capacity, a 55.7% increase over 2009, according to a …
BMW aims for cars to take e-mail dictation
BMW has developed a prototype system that allows drivers to compose full-text e-mails and text messages using voice commands. Unlike …
A different beat
LTE, more tablets ,more apps. That pretty much sums up this year’s Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona. This bellwether …
Extreme roadmap plots broader view of mobility
Extreme Networks’ new product roadmap has a catchy name — Make Your Network Mobile — but it might be a little …
Pre-nimbus perplexity
Just for once, let’s not talk cloud. Instead, let’s look at the technology initiative that, a few years back, was …
A brave new world
The industry seems to have learned its lessons from 3G, which was beset with problems when it came out ten …
IBM fires back at Oracle in middleware fray
IBM is returning fire to Oracle in an increasingly heated battle over who has the faster stack of middleware. Big …
Intel courts the cloud builders
In an office building near Portland, Oregon, in a room next to a massive bank of cubicles, hums one of …
Cybercriminals targeting point-of-sale devices
Point-of-sale payment processing devices for credit and debit cards are proving to be rich targets for cybercriminals due to lax …
Salesforce.com deepens tie-in to Facebook
Salesforce.com is deepening the integration between its CRM (customer relationship management) and customer service software with the explosively popular social-networking …
UAE’s public works ministry selects NEC’s communication solution
UAE’s Ministry of Public Works (MOPW) has selected NEC Unified Solutions, to deliver communications solutions in the new state-of-the-art hospital …
Digital diagnosis
While tele-medicine or remote medicine offers great potential advantages in the region, healthcare institutions are yet to experiment with it …
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 …