IBM has announced new tape storage and enhanced archiving, deduplication offerings designed to help clients efficiently store and extract intelligence …
Red Hat pitches new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in. That, at least, …
Cisco jumps into portable data centre market
Cisco Systems launched its first containerised data centre, coming late to the party but offering some unique management features that …
Cisco enters portable data centre market
Cisco Systems launched its first containerised data centre on Monday, coming late to the party but offering some unique management …
Gartner tablet forecast overlooks Microsoft
Research firm Gartner yesterday gave Microsoft a hard diss on the tablet front by not including Redmond in its recent tablet-OS …
Windows XP still most popular, says research
Windows 7 has expanded its lead over Windows Vista with more than 350 million licences sold after 18 months on …
EBay to acquire GSI Commerce
EBay has agreed to acquire for about US$2.4 billion GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and …
LTE round the corner
So now that Etisalat is rolling out its LTE services, and some other operators in the region trialling the next …
Firefox 4 sets unofficial download record
Mozilla set an unofficial record for software downloads on the second day of Firefox 4’s launch, the company said Friday. …
AMD hires former HP executive as CIO
AMD yesterday continued shuffling its senior executive ranks, appointing former Hewlett-Packard executive Mike Wolfe as its chief information officer. Wolfe …
Cisco unveils secure teleworker products
Cisco has unveiled a home office wireless LAN access point (AP) along with other wireless gear aimed at helping corporations …
HP unifies software support services
Hewlett-Packard has launched a new set of services that combine software support and professional services into a single unified offering. …
Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010
Last year, hard disk drive manufacturers shipped 5,127 petabytes of storage capacity, a 55.7% increase over 2009, according to a …
Extreme roadmap plots broader view of mobility
Extreme Networks’ new product roadmap has a catchy name — Make Your Network Mobile — but it might be a little …
Pre-nimbus perplexity
Just for once, let’s not talk cloud. Instead, let’s look at the technology initiative that, a few years back, was …
A word of advice
In the last month, separate CIO events were conducted in Dubai by two of the largest IT analyst groups in …
HP broadens scope of project management software
With the new update of its Project and Portfolio Management software, Hewlett-Packard is broadening the potential scope of the software …
Mobile network spend to rebound: Dell’Oro
Global spending on mobile infrastructure has been falling for the past two years despite rising demand for network capacity, but …
Nokia-Microsoft: is this the path to success or continued failure?
The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership announced yesterday in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like …
China builds cloud computing city
China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data centre, one of the …