Banking on trust

Surya Subramanian always considers the bottom line where IT is concerned. Emirates NBD’s Group Chief Financial Officer talks to CNME about his relationship with technology and the company’s CIO, and how the bank’s customers are benefitting from the digital transformation.

Kaspersky Lab enhances partner support

The recently appointed Kaspersky Lab Middle East MD, Ovanes Mikhaylov, announced the company’s focus on aggressive growth in the enterprise security sector across the region. He elaborated on the company’s strategy to meet this target by combining innovation and intelligence with a boost in support for channel partners.

VMware launches vCloud for NFV

VMware has entered the network function virtualisation market with a platform that lets service providers run their network functions as virtualised applications from different vendors.

Alcatel-Lucent boosts Wi-Fi

At the Mobile World Congress 2015 being held in Barcelona, Alcatel-Lucent has announced its ‘Wireless Unified Networks’ strategy which blends the …

Etisalat to host energy IT conference

Etisalat has announced that it will host the debut edition of its energy industry IT transformation event ‘Together we energise the world: Modern energy powered by modern solutions’ next month.

IBM outlines Twitter plans

Capturing public conversations around the world in real time, Twitter could be a valuable source of intelligence for the business world. IBM is now creating new ways to derive potentially valuable information from this massive, sprawling data set.

Avaya extends SDN offerings

Avaya this week extended its SDN arsenal with an architecture and supporting products designed to simplify enterprise connectivity and application provisioning.

HPE CEO Meg Whitman has announced that she will not be taking over as Uber CEO

Bloomberg: HP to acquire Aruba

HP is in talks to purchase Aruba Networks, with an eye toward acquiring that company’s wireless networking infrastructure technology, according to a report published today by Bloomberg News.

Driving partnerships

Reseller ME catches up with Michael Gerentine, Global VP Channel Marketing, IBM, at the company’s PartnerWorld Leadership Conference held in Las Vegas this year.

IBM cloud chief keen on speed

IBM’s new man in charge of the cloud business is moving fast. “What I’m focusing on is speed,” said Robert LeBlanc, the new senior vice president for IBM Cloud. “Because the market continues to change, we have to get things to market quickly and then iterate.”

SAP releases cloud finance app

Hard on the heels of the recent announcement of its next-generation S/4Hana enterprise software platform, SAP on Wednesday unveiled a new software-as-a-service application aimed at finance professionals but delivering a consumer-like experience.

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