The most important question on the mind of every CIO when pitching a project to senior management revolves entirely around …
The big fuss over big data
There is no denying the hype that has surrounded big data over the past few years. Big data is set …
State of flux
The sixth edition of IDC’s Middle East CIO Summit had a strong sense of urgency to it. From the nature …
Whitman dismisses HP break-up claims
In an effort to assure concerned users and investors that it is working to put past distractions aside, struggling Hewlett-Packard …
AccessData: Region not equipped for cybercrime
According to AccessData Group, the Middle East is fast becoming a prime target for cyber criminals, mostly because so many …
Reaching for the cloud
Despite a very challenging political and economic milieu in the region, the home networking major D-Link has grown at a …
New kid on the block
Qais Gharaibeh, UAE Managing Director, SAP MENA
Cautious optimism
Amid a declining global PC market, Lenovo seems incredibly upbeat about its regional prospects. Perhaps that has something to do …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
AWS provides easy entry to SAP HANA
It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features …
ARIS 9.0 launched at CeBit
Software AG last week announced the availability of ARIS 9.0 at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The vendor …
Virtually unstoppable – VMware: We’re miles ahead
“It’s nice to have competition,” says the senior director of VMware’s pre-sales division, Herve Renault. He sits in Grosvenor House …
Westcon named Motorola distributor of the year
Westcon Group was last week named Motorola Solutions’ EMEA Distributor of the Year 2012 at the vendor’s 2013 Executive Partner …
Beating the big data blues
Henrik Pederson, Senior Technical Account Manager, CommVault Systems, explains how an integrated data management strategy can help to manage big …
Huawei earns SAP HANA certification
Huawei’s enterprise division is ramping up its European presence, following an announcement last week that SAP has certified the company’s …
SAP expands insurance software portfolio with Camilion
SAP has announced that it is expanding its array of software products for the insurance industry, having agreed an acquisition …
EES named top HP software partner
Emitac Enterprise Solutions (EES) was awarded the “Top Software MEMA Partner of the Year” award at the HP Global Partner …
Pirate software market costs business $114bn, MEA market among largest
Pirated software is costing industry in excess of $114 billion, according to a new IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. Though …
US comes up short on security experts
According to a pair of recently released reports, demand for information security experts in the United States is outstripping the …
Rimini Street growth spooks Oracle, SAP
Rimini Street, a third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, posted impressive growth results in the EMEA region during …