Dell outlined its software strategy yesterday, casting the growing business as a secondary, but key, component to the company’s enterprise …
Salesforce.com gets access to Twitter's messages feed
Salesforce.com announced yesterday a deal with Twitter that will give the enterprise cloud computing company access to Twitter’s “firehose” feed of public …
RME Partner Excellence Awards 2012 honours the best of the region
At a gala event that brought together the who’s-who of the channel community, Reseller Middle East yesterday honoured leading members …
Red Hat launches Cloud Forms
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the next step in its delivery of open …
Forrester: Cloud is not the future of IT
Cloud computing is not the future of IT and commoditisation is, says analyst house Forrester, although the two support each …
Armed and ready
Swivel, an authentication solutions provider has recently ventured into the region. Here, the company talks about the benefits of token-less …
Alfalak introduces Microsoft Office 365 in Saudi Arabia
Alfalak Electronic Equipment and Supplies Company, a provider of technology-based end-to-end solutions in the Middle East, has announced that it …
Server sales continue to decline in EMEA region, says IDC
Revenue from server sales declined by about 12 percent year-on-year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the first …
Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs
Amazon Web Services has integrated configuration templates and auto-scaling features with its Spot Instances offering in an effort to make …
HP and Oracle, now headed for a split, could have split up Sun
One of the more surprising episodes in HP and Oracle’s ill-fated enterprise IT partnership was touched upon for only a …
Fabric-based computing could cost IT operations jobs, Gartner warns
Enterprise adoption of new technologies such as fabric-based computing, smartphones and tablets could put IT operations managers out of a …
World IPv6 Launch boosts morale but traffic levels remain tiny
Despite widespread publicity for World IPv6 Launch day earlier this week, the protocol’s presence on the Internet remains painfully modest next to …
Red Hat launches hybrid cloud management software
After a year of testing the software in beta, Red Hat yesterday launched its hybrid cloud management software, called CloudForms. Most organisations …
EMC and Terremark ink joint cloud agreement
Terremark, the cloud vendor owned by Verizon, has become a platinum member of EMC’s cloud service provider program, solidifying a relationship between …
Achieving maturity
As the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) market matures, users are struggling to make the case for GRC implementations. What …
Taking off
After state-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines was approved by the Saudi cabinet in 2007 to convert its strategic units into companies …
Ellison: Oracle will deliver world's 'most comprehensive cloud'
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared the company is ready to offer “the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth,” during …
Cloud-based mobile device management getting hot: Gartner
To place management controls on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones used in business, the enterprise has showed preference for acquiring …
D-Link reinforces support for World IPv6 Launch Day
D-Link has reaffirmed its commitment to the switch to the new IPv6 standard and support for World IPv6 Launch Day …
HP's Livermore was 'furious and appalled' at Oracle dropping Itanium
Hewlett-Packard enterprise chief Ann Livermore was “furious and appalled” when she saw Oracle’s announcement that it would end development for …