A new survey conducted by the Africa Business Panel has found Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya to be Africa’s fastest-expanding …
Kenya becomes first African country to implement e-government
In a move that is likely to have a ripple effect in the region, the Kenyan government has offloaded government …
Oracle Exadata certified to run SAP applications
Oracle’s Exadata X2 machines are now certified to run applications from rival SAP, following recent steps by SAP to move …
Airtel signs network expansion pact with Huawei
Taking a page from its India strategy, Telecom giant Bharti Airtel has signed a US$150 million agreement with Chinese technology …
SAP revamps performance management suite
SAP is preparing to release a major revamp of its software for EPM (enterprise performance management), a subset of BI …
SAP bets on in-memory, mobility in new BI release
SAP is hoping to gain ground in the increasingly heated market for BI (business intelligence) software, announcing a suite on …
EMC’s Greenplum offers ‘data’ at no charge
EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining …
Path to success
Effat University has chosen and built on SunGard’s solution to ensure a digital campus that works efficiently and helps improve …
Bharti Airtel bidding $10.7B for Zain's Africa mobile ops
Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile phone service provider, is in exclusive discussions to buy the African operations of Kuwait's Mobile …
WiMax starts to bloom
The Middle East market has also witnessed an increased adoption of the technology, especially in countries such as Saudi Arabia, …
Analysis: Cisco, EMC, VMware partnership is a long shot
Cisco, EMC and VMware joined forces to sell products as a private cloud offering to enterprises. Called the Virtual Computing …
Dell diversifies with fixed server offerings
Dell said it would offer pre-configured systems for enterprise customers looking to get server environments up and running quickly. The …
Network management vendors land hefty venture funding
Venture capital investors continued confidence in management software makers was displayed Wednesday as Apparent Networks and Aveksa separately reported they …
New CSR initiative by Paramount & Trend Micro
Paramount has joined hands with Trend Micro and provided Al Noor Training Centre for children with special needs with a …
Dell unwraps products designed for virtualization
On Wednesday, Dell introduced two blade servers, support for more capacity in its storage products, and new partnerships with companies …