The Qatar Cloud Computing Initiative, driven by three universities, will open up its cloud infrastructure to local businesses and industries …
Six desk security mistakes employees make every day
You've checked all of the entry ways in your office building, you have surveillance technology in place, and IT assures …
Fujitsu to end hard-disk head production
Fujitsu plans to end production of read/write heads for hard-disk drives as part of a wider review of its HDD …
National Paints deploys NEC servers to boost productivity
Since its establishment in Amman (Jordan) in 1969, National Paints is now the largest paint consortium in the Middle East …
Virtual desktops getting security boost
Businesses looking for safer virtual desktops can cut the risk of attacks if they run their virtual-machine hypervisors directly on …
Mozilla wants to watch Firefox users
Mozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla Corp., wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they …
NetApp CEO: Virtualization driving sluggish storage market
“The market is not robust, but it's not dead either,” he said in an interview. The economic downturn has changed …
WhiteHouse.gov gets quick overhaul
While Barack Obama was being sworn in as president last week, his administration was unveiling a redesigned WhiteHouse.gov Web site …
AMD working on extra-low-power chip
Advance Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is adding a new, low-power Opteron processor to its Shanghai line roadmap and it plans …
Smart steps for corporate mobile devices
If you've ever let a stranger borrow your corporate smartphone, you may have just given him a gift of your …
WAN optimization in the year ahead
As 2009 kicked off, WAN optimization veterans think that this technology will be the biggest technology and industry trends to …
IBM envisions future of healthcare
IBM will also be showcasing its solutions to key regional and global challenges and exploring the future trends of the …
Prevention is better than cure
What kind of key opportunities do you see in the Middle East market? The market here has matured quite a …
Are you prepared for war?
Granted, a degree of hyperbole might exist in the above statements but then again it is not entirely far from …
Report: Cisco to elbow into server fray
Cisco Systems is gearing up to sell a new, possibly disruptive server in the next few months, according to one …
Holiday season saw spike in Trojan & spam activity
The year-end holiday season saw a surge in Trojan activity and spam worldwide, according to network security provider Fortinet. According …
How to cut IT costs without hemorrhaging
With no fat left to trim, how can IT managers keep cutting costs without damaging core services? Many industry professionals …
Brocade’s new CTO takes aim at Cisco
Just a few months ago, Dave Stevens began his second stint as CTO of Brocade. But this time, the company …
Downadup worm infects 1 in every 16 PCs, says Panda Security
The computer worm responsible for the biggest attack in years has infected at least one out of every 16 PCs …
New paint promises high-speed Wi-Fi shielding
IT managers should start familiarising themselves with a new security tool, the paint brush, as Japanese researchers have come up …