Businesses continue to plunge into cloud computing with gusto, but are they fully aware of the challenges surrounding the number …
The tech revolution
March saw Gartner bring its global Symposium series to the Middle East for the first time at the Madinat Arena …
Oracle beefs up business intelligence software with more data sources
Oracle has revised two of its business intelligence products, giving users the ability to wrest intelligence from a wider range …
HP launches revolutionary new class of server, Moonshot
HP demonstrated that innovation is well and truly alive as it announced the official release of its new revolutionary class …
Maximo Middle East User Conference kicks off in Dubai
eSolutions Maximo’s Maximo Middle East User Group Conference 2013 kicks off on Tuesday, April 7, at the JW Marriott Marquis …
Jabra takes home three Red Dot awards
Jabra announced on Monday that it had this week won three Red Dot design awards. The newcomers to the Jabra product portfolio …
Piracy stats – what’s up with that?
The detectives at IDC have been at it again, this time with the compliments of Microsoft, which commissioned a study …
Cloud pricing war heats up
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on …
Juniper addresses SDN, BYOD needs
Juniper Networks has launched a new range of more widely programmable switches and management tools that aim to address provider …
Google releases Quickoffice for iPhone, Android
Google has launched its Microsoft Office substitute, Quickoffice, for the iPhone, Android smartphones and Android tablets, fulfilling a promise made …
New Dell tablets on the horizon
Dell will release Windows tablets later this year, and could potentially introduce devices with screen sizes larger than 10 inches. …
Whose job is it, anyway?
A growing number of Middle East CIOs are hiring specialised service providers to manage their organisation’s infrastructure. Is this the …
Proper planning
As any CeBit visitor knows, it’s impossible to navigate the vast trade show without coming up with a decent plan. …
SAP demos Business Suite on HANA at Dubai racetrack
SAP last week held a demonstration of its new HANA-powered Business Suite at Dubai Autodrome, announcing that the new suite …
Seagate to hold Middle East Partner Conference
Seagate announced on Monday that it is set to host its annual Middle East Partner Conference on Wednesday, April 3, …
EMPA appointed as Huawei’s master disti
EMPA Middle East, one of the principal IT distributors in the MENA region, signed another major vendor into its portfolio …
Dell plans all-flash arrays and unified software
As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build …
Gartner: Worldwide IT spending to break $3.8tn this year
Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow by 4.1 percent this year to roughly US$3.8 trillion, according to …
Avaya CEO happy to share customers with Microsoft, Cisco
Despite what he sees as shortcomings of Microsoft’s real-time communications platform, Lync, businesses will see value to some of its …
Mobile virtualisation on the rise – Forrester
Forrester Research predicts that with the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, the approach to …