Enterprises across the Middle East risk damaging their businesses through the use of pirated software, with an estimated two-thirds of …
Lenovo weighs in on Think netbook
The popularity of netbooks has been so appealing that Chinese PC powerhouse Lenovo is weighing in on the options of …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
A datacentre with that server?
Faced with the continued commoditisation of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward …
Striking back
It can’t be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft’s chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill …
Reviving ERP
Everybody knows it. The major ERP suites are old and not as flexible as some newer stuff, and they can’t build …
Doorstep delivery
SaaS is riding the wave of cloud computing and is increasing in popularity among Middle East enterprises. However, …
NetApp and Intel lead evolution to 10G unified Ethernet networking
NetApp has announced it will support the Intel Ethernet X520 family of SFP+10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server adapters. This extends …
WAN optimisation goes virtual
While the benefits of WAN optimisation are well documented-better application performance, cost reductions and bandwidth savings, to name a few- …
Cisco vs Juniper
The argument began in 1996 with Juniper's founding; until then, Cisco had ruled the router roost in both the enterprise …
Aiming high
At the Brocade Technology Day in New York, the company took the wraps off its blueprint for stitching together storage …
Dell has new UAE country manager
Based in Dubai, Moufarrej will be responsible for growing Dell’s commercial business across the region and will work closely with …
Springboard to success
NWME: What brings you to town? Lebeck: Middle East is a key region for us. I wanted to meet the …
CA to become CA Technologies
CA is no more. The company formerly known as Computer Associates has changed its name once more and is now …
Global data storage demands to rocket in next decade
The amount of information in the world is set to rise 44-fold in the next decade according to IDC, with …
Eyes on the network
A network monitoring system monitors an internal network for problems. It can find and help resolve snail-paced webpage downloads, lost-in-space …
Cyberoam rolls out Version X
Cyberoam, the Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance vendor, has announced the release of its new firmware with Cyberoam’s Version X …
New SaaS company launched
Dubbed LiveRoute, the company has unveiled its SaaS portfolio in the Middle East in partnership with Aplicor Inc, a global …
Citrix releases Xen 4.0
Xen.org, part of Citrix, has launched a new version of the Xen open source hypervisor. The company claimed that Xen …