Software is the backbone of IT in the digital age, touching almost every aspect of our lives. So what does the future hold for one of the hottest industries in the world? Here, experts from Skyport Systems, Ceridian, Tasktop and Travel Tripper share their opinions on what to expect in 2016.
In 2014, Gartner coined the term ‘Web-scale IT’ and predicted that by 2017 it will be an architectural approach found functioning in 50 percent of enterprises globally. With the unprecedented rise of an inevitable data-driven world, this IT approach is expected to help businesses achieve the agility, scalability and business growth that meet rising industry demands.
IBM is building slimmer versions of its Power hardware — used by its Watson supercomputer — to run complex database applications as well as simpler Web-based ones.
The Networked Society is important in all aspects of life today, and especially going forth into the future. It is a starting point for innovation, socialisation and changing the way in which whole communities interact and live their lives.
Jumbo Electronics, the regional consumer electronics retailer and distributor in the UAE, has launched its innovative online shopping portal that combines the retailer’s expertise in local markets with the capabilities of e-commerce and digital strategy specialists, including Build-a-Bazaar, RBBi, MENA360, and Google, to offer a comprehensive omnichannel experience to shoppers.
Storing data in the public cloud can be both convenient and cost-effective. Vendors can do some things to ensure security, but is data stored on the public cloud ever truly safe? CNME investigates the benefits and pitfalls to storing data on the public cloud.
Gartner has released its predictions for the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2015. …
In his first visit to an emerging market after taking over the reins at Juniper Networks, Shaygan Kheradpir sat down with us to talk about his vision for the company and strategy for the new era of IT.
Training partners is imperative for a successful channel business. Reseller ME investigates how the channel goes about implementing these programmes and the roadblocks.
We look at five modern IT roles that are key to gaining competitive business advantage
A list of 16 million email addresses and passwords has fallen into the hands of botnet operators, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said Tuesday.
Japan is planning to tax sales of foreign online content such as e-books, apps and downloaded music by late 2015, according to a newspaper report.
Redington Value has been recently signed up by VMware to distribute its whole portfolio in MENA region, with a special focus on software-defined data centres. We speak to B. Ramkumar, Senior Vice President, Redington Gulf-Value Division, about the deal and further plans for 2014.
After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service.
The federal deficit – the amount by which the US government’s total budget outlay exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year – is estimated at $680 billion for 2013.
After a closed beta for a few months, Lenovo has opened for public preview its Reach consumer cloud service, which …
Watch the latest films and movie classics on your Mac for free, legally and above board. If you’ve exhausted the …
Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management …
Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company’s reentry into the …
Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has …
