It's the worst thing that can happen to a computer security vendor: This weekend, Moscow's Kaspersky Lab was hacked. A …
Cisco’s new 11n gear
The new Aironet 1140 access point uses the same mounting hardware as Cisco's existing Aironet 1250 11n products. But it …
UAE to house $500 m private satellite firm
SmartSat will leverage the expertise of a widely experienced executive board, led by Chairman and Managing Director Khaled Derbas. SmartSat …
Time of opportunity is now, says Dell
The call comes at a time when CIOs and IT managers in the region have been called upon to maximise …
The WAN plan
Is WAN optimisation gaining popularity in the Middle East? What is driving the market? The Middle East market as a …
The ‘n’ stands for now
Without delving too deeply into the past, we all remember the war-driving horror stories: buggy Wired Equivalent Privacy implementations, 802.11b …
Extreme ships Summit X650
“With the Summit X650, Extreme Networks is the first and only network vendor to provide the market with a complete …
Reaching toward unity
Storage resource management (SRM) products provide the means for collecting information on the heterogeneous resources – operating systems, host computers, …
IT salaries have got positive predictions
IT professionals have good reason to feel anxious about their careers: Job losses among IT workers are mounting as CIOs …
BlackBerry still targeting businesses
While competitors like the Apple iPhone and the budding Google Android platform have garnered a lot of attention lately, Research …
Mixing green flavor in high performance computing
The supercomputing world is one of giant government labs, big machines and speeds measured in hundreds of trillions of calculations …
Nortel still signing up customers
Nortel has signed up “hundreds” of new customers since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection three weeks ago, and is …
Is virtualization adoption recession-proof?
Despite declining IT operating budgets, virtualization adoption will dramatically accelerate and continue to top the priority list CIOs in 2009, …
Microsoft reveals ‘My Phone’ backup, sync service
Just hours after Microsoft Corp. accidently launched, then yanked, a Web site promoting its new “My Phone” backup and sync …
MySQL co-founder quits Sun
Michael “Monty” Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems Inc. and is starting his …
Citrix upgrades XenDesktop, Branch Repeater
Citrix is introducing new technology to improve the delivery of voice, video and 3D graphics to virtual desktops and to …
Top 10 spam-friendly registrars named and shamed
Spam-fighting organization KnujOn has released a report on the top 10 registrars it has linked to spam and other illicit …
Quantum upgrades disk-based backup
Quantum last week upgraded its disk backup and remote replication DXi7500 device to include multi-site replication and direct tape creation …
Microsoft enhances office communication with better voice
Nearly 16 months after launching its unified communications platform and taking aim at replacing the venerable PBX, Microsoft now has …
Security problems still plague retailers’ wireless LANs
A large-scale scan by Motorola's AirDefense group has found that wireless LAN vulnerabilities in retailer networks though much improved over …