CIOs lament twenty – something techies who quit after a year Louis Trebino, CIO and senior VP at the Harry …
Etisalat to stop Indian network after losing mobile licenses
Middle-East mobile operator Emirates Telecommunications, known as Etisalat, is suspending its network and services in India, following a court order …
Mountain Lion move shows Apple thinks personal cloud trumps PC: analysts
Apple’s move to update Mac OS X this summer shows that the company sees its software ecosystem, especially its iCloud …
Top 5 information management and backup trend predictions for 2012: Symantec
“Backup Fights Back in 2012” You can’t call backup boring anymore. Data is exploding year on year. The backup market …
Tablets will outsell PCs: Apple CEO
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that tablets such as the iPad will outsell PCs in the coming years thanks to the explosive …
Extending identity
The focal point of enterprise security has long been on fighting malware and outsider threats, while most of the breaches …
Multiple buyers, multiple messages
Why a role-based sales approach is required for complex IT sales The message coming from technology buyers is clear — …
Lenovo’s fiscal Q3 profit up 54%, increases China share
Lenovo’s profit in its fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31 grew 54 percent year-over-year, as the company saw growth in …
Leaders and CIOs
Channel partners are used to being part of formal vendor programmes. But CIOs today also face informal career and skill …
New mega data centre in India among world’s largest
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data centre in India that it says is the largest in …
EMC launches ‘Project Lightning’ PCIe cards
EMC today launched its long-awaited “Project Lightning,” now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash …
CIO IT spending to increase in MEA: Survey
IT spending in the Middle East and Africa will increase by 14% as the role of technology in business grows, …
Big and growing
Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. …
RIM announces appointment of new CEO
Research In Motion’s co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have quit after a tumultuous period at the company, which saw …
IT leaders continue to juggle multiple priorities in 2012: research
Analytics and business intelligence have moved back to the top of the technology priority list for CIOs, followed by mobile …
Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company, the latest dramatic change at the top of the embattled Internet company. …
Messaging security market to touch $4.78b by 2015:IDC
The messaging security market will grow to $4.78 billion in 2015, according to research firm IDC, but enterprises will favour …
Trend Micro revamps partner programme
Trend Micro has announced an aggressive new partner programme focused on rewarding proactive partners, driving new business, customer retention, while …
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to …
Intel bets big on ultrabooks
Intel will get a strong indication at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show whether its decision to bet heavily on ultrabooks …