Welcome to the IT organiaation of the year 2020 and brace yourself, because it’s a far cry from the department …
Apple cash in shoe boxes
US federal agents found more than US$150,000 in cash when they searched the house of Apple manager Paul Devine earlier …
Microsoft BPOS cloud suite hit
Access to various Microsoft hosted software products for businesses in North America was affected recently due to a performance issue …
Infrastructure services users worry less about security
A recent Yankee Group survey about enterprise use of IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offerings found that once companies start using such services, …
Oracle takes over JavaOne conference
Next month’s revamped JavaOne conference, the first under Oracle’s jurisdiction, will feature a keynote presentation from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, …
NetApp revenue grows 36% in Q1
Data storage vendor NetApp reported today on its revenue for the first quarter of 2011, stating total product sales grew …
Dell to buy 3PAR
3PAR's Utility Storage platform dramatically cuts administrative, power and space costs over traditional storage arrays, according to the company. It …
Indian government to meet operators over the BlackBerry
Indian government officials plan to meet on Thursday with mobile operators to discuss access to BlackBerry data, according to informed …
'WiMAX 2' set to be finalised in November
Declan Byrne, the marketing director for the WiMAX Forum industry group, says the WiMAX 2 standard, formally known as 802.16m, …
Oracle provides Sparc road map, but questions remain
Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of …
The pipe gets bigger
For the uninitiated, the IEEE 802.3ba standard, ratified in June this year, is the first specification to simultaneously specify two …
Skills and training
Chandan Mehta, product manager at Fujitsu Technology Systems in the region The Middle East has traditionally and for many years, …
Off centre
HP Critical Facility Services customer project manager Kevin Miller For businesses that choose to outsource their data centre requirements, there …
Virtual world
Mohammed Thameem Rizvon,Group IT manager, Kamal Osman Jamjoom Have you implemented virtualisation solutions in your enterprise? If so, what …
BBC staff lose 146 laptops in two years
Staff at the BBC lost 146 laptops over a two-year period to March 2010, according to Absolute Software. The software …
BlackBerry service to be monitored in Saudi Arabia
BlackBerry data services can continue in Saudi Arabia after Research in Motion agreed to monitoring of e-mail and instant messaging …
Employees ignore IT security: survey
New global research has found that most IT security administrators believe social networking, Internet applications and widgets have significantly lowered …
Riverbed readies cloud, mobility and virtualization rollout
Riverbed has products on tap that will enable WAN optimisation as a cloud service, speed up the boot time for …
EMPA launches Enterprise Solutions unit
The enterprise focused unit which was unveiled recently has already signed distribution partnerships with Lavasoft AB, ESET, St. Bernard and …
Explosive wireless growth drives security need
Devices capable of handling IEEE 802.11 based wireless communication are expected to exceed 1 billion units by year 2013 according …