With the outages costing dearly, business continuity and disaster recovery are emerging as top priorities for regional businesses. Here is …
Shrinking data centre
Four forces operating in the market today could result in data center space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the …
Gartner highlights four data centre forces
Four forces operating in the market today could result in data centre space requirements that will shrink dramatically before the …
Citrix takes on ex-VMWare channel head as new regional director
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand …
On a security conference
The 20th RSA security conference concluded last Friday at San Francisco Moscone Centre. Especially for someone like me, that had …
Living on a prayer
By Valeria Camerino On the notes of a security-inspired version of Bon Jovi’s “Living on a prayer”, the 20th edition …
Microsoft appoints new server and tools business head
Microsoft has appointed its online services veteran, Satya Nadella, to head its US$15 billion server and tools business, the company …
Avnet expands distribution agreement with Enterasys
Avnet now has rights to distribute Enterasys Networks’ full portfolio of wired and wireless network infrastructure products and security solutions …
Avnet hosts ISS Academy in KSA
Vidyasagar Patro, Senior Technical Consultant, Avnet Technology Solutions MEA, says HP ISS is vital to maintain high I/O performance which …
Aptec launches Datacentre Alliance Partner Programme
The launch of the partner programme, follows last month’s partnership betweem Aptec Holdings Group, and four datacentre focused vendors APC, …
Organisations drag their heels on network automation
Nearly half of IT managers are being hit by network problems every month thanks to human error. That’s according to …
May you live in interesting times
Thus goes an ancient Chinese curse. Though I don’t know if it really is a curse, it sure is the …
In pursuit of excellence
You are an industry veteran, who is best known for spearheading the Arabisation efforts in the region. Can you share …
A flat future
All of a sudden, data centre networking has gone from ho-hum to hot. The status quo — that hierarchical, three-tier …
Brocade appoints new EMEA channel head
This appointment comes soon after Brocade launched its enhanced channel partner programme, which Valluy will spearhead across EMEA. In …
Anatomy of protection
Everything revolves around information and people. That was the core message of the Symantec Vision held in Barcelona last month, …
The pursuit of success
The Dubai-based Majid Al Futtaim Properties (MAFP) is one of the biggest shopping mall, hotels and mixed-use communities developers and …
Storage centric
More and more solution providers are finding that more opportunities in virtualisation come from two separate, but decidedly complementary, technologies: …
The virtual promise
The explosive growth of cloud computing has fuelled the need to integrate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications with each other and with …
EMC enhances Velocity partner programme
The enhanced Velocity programme will offer simplified program entry, time-efficient training, easy access to EMC’s broad, industry-leading portfolio of information …