Citrix has appointed Config as its second Value Added Distributor (VAD) in Francophone Africa. As demand for virtualisation, mobility management, networking and cloud services in the region continues to grow rapidly, Config will distribute all Citrix solutions, including network optimisation technologies, to resellers across the region to ensure organisations have the correct infrastructure in place to support the surge in demand for virtual and mobile workspaces.
People-centric experiences
User experience in mobile devices should be dynamic and business-oriented, writes Nick Jones, Vice President and Analyst, Gartner.
Rack to the future
Data centre technology is rapidly changing. With the advent of virtualisation and increasing speed and agility may come a sense of impending doom for IT staff. However, more efficient centres do not necessarily mean the end of a robust technical department.
Tech Mahindra wins PegaWORLD business gong
Tech Mahindra has won the award for leading the business transformation for a Fortune 10 corporation at PegaWORLD 2014, held in Washington, DC.
Palo Alto uncovers new source of cyberthreats
Palo Alto Networks has revealed that cyber criminals in Nigeria have evolved common malware campaigns to infiltrate businesses that have …
Nadella seeks to axe failing hardware
Microsoft’s quarterly financials are out, and they paint a startlingly clear picture of why new CEO Satya Nadella is in such a hurry to scuttle away from the “devices and services” mantra rolled out by former honcho Steve Ballmer just last year.
Transformational IT
In conjunction with Cognizant and a Gartner delegate, CNME hosted a discussion with industry experts on transformational IT.
Infoblox signs up StarLink for ME & Turkey
Infoblox, an automated network control vendor has appointed regional value-added distributor StarLink as its distributor. The distributor will sell, install and support the vendor’s products and solutions through its channel partners to customers in the Middle East and Turkey.
Teradata opens Riyadh office
Teradata has announced the establishment of Teradata Saudi Arabia LLC to strengthen its commitment to current and prospective customers and channel partners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Cutting edge
With the systems integrators market evolving, IT leaders have the opportunity to tailor their skills to specific verticals and areas of SI specialisation. Which verticals offer the best opportunities for growth and what types of projects will SIs have to specialise in?
Digging for gold
Intensified competition coupled with declining voice ARPU is forcing telecom service providers to look around for new revenue streams that some of the new advanced technologies offer. However, it can be a daunting task for carriers who are saddled with legacy systems and manual internal processes.
Talking shop
Reseller Middle East’s fifth annual Partner Excellence Conference rallied together the channel community to discuss emerging market trends and evolving business operations.
Lot of smoke, little Fire
Online editor James Dartnell gives his take on Amazon’s much-anticipated entry into the smartphone market.
Money making machines
Peter Middleton, Research Director, Gartner, discusses how the Internet of Things will be a future goldmine for IT.
Need for speed
IT managers around the world are falling in love with SSDs (solid state drives) in enterprise servers because they solve two major headaches: they run fast enough to replace multiple HDDs (hard disk drives) and they help reduce the electric bill.
Gartner: 2014 IT spend due 2.1 percent growth
Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total $3.7 trillion in 2014, a 2.1 percent increase from last year, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
Work release
Employees and employers alike are embracing the move to mobile technology in the workplace. For employees, this means a greater amount a freedom when it comes to when and where they work. For employers, mobile technology can mean a boost in productivity and efficiency.
Interview: HP CIO Ramon Baez
HP CIO Ramon Baez talks about HP’s vision for cloud computing and big data, and how HP can help its customers make the most of these new technologies.
In the bank
With a range of forecasts from research firms Gartner and IDC stating that MENA IT spending will increase in 2014, will CIOs find their budgets swelling, and if so, which areas are most in need of the spend? Who stands to benefit and what can the Middle East do to catch up with more developed regions?
Gartner names top 10 2014 IT security technologies
Gartner has highlighted its top 10 technologies for information security and their implications for security organisations in 2014.