It has been a year of transition for Microsoft in 2008, with the biggest being co-founder and company icon Bill …
Symantec teams up with VMware
The initiative between the two software vendors includes: cooperative support through the Technical Support Alliance Network (TSANet) for mutual customers …
Alcatel-Lucent cuts jobs, focuses attention on three sectors
Alcatel-Lucent is naming enterprises as one of three markets it will focus on as it lays off 1,000 more workers …
Cisco introduces “medianet” technologies and solutions
This new class of technologies is designed to enable advanced communications, collaboration and entertainment experiences through video- and rich media-optimized …
Greening the network
Over the last one year, there has been a flurry of green marketing in the networking industry. Equipment vendors are …
Aptec to hold 3Com roadshows across GCC
These seminars aimed at the resellers across the region focusing on the SMB sector will highlight some of the new …
Nortel’s unified communication approach
Nortel has unveiled a new educational program designed to provide IT professionals and students with a broader understanding of unified …
IronPort Turbocharges Web Security Appliances
IronPort Systems has recently introduced the industry’s fastest Web security appliances, capable of supporting up to 30,000 end-users with a …
Sun takes another swing
Having coined the phrase “the network is the computer” more than a decade ago Sun Microsystems could expect to be …
Tracking indentities
A common misconception concerning network security is that the enterprise network is at considerable risk from external attackers only. In …
Cisco plans TelePresence translation next year
The feature is expected to go on sale in the second half of 2009 with an initial set of 20 …
Dell, EMC extend storage partnership
Dell and EMC have agreed to extend their worldwide storage partnership, even though the existing deal — which has generated …
Cisco to video-optimize networks
Cisco this week is expected to unveil the first in a series of enterprise products designed to intelligently process video …
Meru provides wireless network to BDP
BDP, one of the largest interdisciplinary design practice's in Europe, has installed Meru Networks' unique high performance virtual cell wireless …
Saudi utility giant SWCC embarks on IT upgrade
As the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) faces challenges of global expansion and privatisation, the Saudi utility giant has undertaken …
Google gets aggresive in ME
Google Enterprise and its leading Value Added Distributor (VAD) in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region FVC, have appointed …
SP2 beta for Windows Server 2008, Vista available
Microsoft gave its MSDN and TechNet subscribers access to the beta of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows …
Consolidation is next wave of computing
Tumbling demand could affect PC makers next year, leading to industry consolidation, IDC said on Wednesday. Competition among PC makers …
Diving into collaboration
NWME: How’s Telepresence different from previous video collaboration systems? Martins: Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a …
Wanted: A long-term data centre strategy
Although trends point to industry-wide consolidation of data centres, many businesses find themselves with more then they used to have …