Companies are struggling to fill the skills shortage in mainframe development as existing staff retire and IT students are put …
AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 mn, enters server hardware business
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a surprise move that puts AMD in …
UAE government pro managed IT services
eHosting Data Fort (eHDF) and Emirates eGovernment today organised a special forum titled ‘Managed IT Services for Government’. At the …
Spectrami to distribute security solutions from Microdasys, Tenable Network Security, Fastpasscorp
Spectrami announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Microdasys to distribute a wide range of enterprise security solutions in …
MEA enterprise IT spending to grow 6.3%: Gartner
Middle East and Africa enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to reach 70 billion Euros in 2012, …
Ericsson enters data centre market
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Ericssonis launching its new offering for building and optimising data centres. This is …
CIO role will eventually cease to exist, claim CFOs
The position of CIO could disappear from the business landscape within five years’ time, according to nearly one in five …
Whitman gives HP harsh report card, outlines recovery plan
Hewlett-Packard has underinvested in its business and become “too complex and too slow,” President and CEO Meg Whitman said yesterday, …
Top 5 information management and backup trend predictions for 2012: Symantec
“Backup Fights Back in 2012” You can’t call backup boring anymore. Data is exploding year on year. The backup market …
Racing towards the digital economy
Accelerated by government policies and increasing demand from consumers for more bandwidth and video-centric applications, Leo Xu, VP of solutions …
Winning with consolidation
Data centre consolidation is a term being thrown around in 2012 almost as much as virtualisation, cloud and big data. …
Extending identity
The focal point of enterprise security has long been on fighting malware and outsider threats, while most of the breaches …
Top 10 technology trends to change the world in next decade
Here are the top 10 technology trends that will change the world in the next decade, according to Dave Evans, Cisco’s chief …
Alcatel-Lucent reports rising profit on falling revenue
Telecommunication equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent reported a profit for the fourth quarter, but revenue fell 12.9 percent year-on-year as the company …
Speed thrills
As a journalist who ekes out a living writing about enterprise networking, Cisco Live is always one of the not-to-miss …
Survival of the fittest
The past year has given enough reason for regional enterprises to begin investing in a robust business continuity (BC) and …
New mega data centre in India among world’s largest
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data centre in India that it says is the largest in …
CommVault unveils new Simpana software
At its SolveForward 2012 event, CommVault unveiled new, next-generation singular information management innovations that further empower Simpana software customers to …
On the lookout
It might be just another year in the technology evolution chain, but vendors believe that 2012 will bring with it …
Do and re-do
Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look …