The United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) has successfully deployed Arrive Systems green technology by Visionaire, Dubai’s homegrown ICT and Intelligent …
Qtel, Cisco to collaborate on new services in Qatar
Qtel and Cisco have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will see the companies collaborate on a range of …
Cisco introduces new Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers with app enabled capabilities
Cisco recently unveiled a new line of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers with app enabled capabilities for consumers to power and …
UAE leads Middle East efforts in the fight against piracy
The UAE Ministry of Economy (MoE) recently hosted a training workshop on software piracy and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection …
Dell says AppAssure now its premier backup product
Despite its longstanding partnership with Symantec and CommVault, Dell says that products from recently acquired AppAssure will become the company’s primary backup …
DCIM tools eliminate inefficiencies
Some data centre managers were never sold on first generation data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) tools because the tools were …
Dell launches XPS 13 Ultrabook in the Gulf
A regional increase in the ‘bring your own device’ or BYOD trend within the Middle East’s workplaces bodes well for …
Secure future
The year 2012 is dominated by three key trends – cloud, virtualisation and big data. These may be revolutionising the …
“We are hungry”
Nidal Abou-Ltaif, the swashbuckling lead of communications and networking major Avaya in the region, talks about how the Middle East …
IT investments deliver profits: research
Investing in IT departments can have a bigger impact on a firm’s profits than similar spending on R&D and some …
Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive
Hitachi’s former disk-drive division today announced what it said is the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive. The drive has …
Citrix takes CloudStack to Apache, abandons OpenStack
Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has …
SAP goes after SAS, IBM with predictive analysis software
SAP is hoping to stake out some turf in the predictive analytics software market with a new application called BusinessObjects …
Oracle, Google fail to reach settlement in Android lawsuit
Oracle and Google have failed to settle their intellectual property dispute and appear headed to court on April 16. On …
LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards
LSI yesterday announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the …
Information Builders gives its BI platform more cloud-like capabilities
Information Builders has added a range of improvements to its WebFocus BI (business intelligence) platform that will make it more …
Oracle buys ClearTrial
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, a leading provider of cloud-based clinical trial operations (CTO) applications, it …
Oracle buys ClearTrial
Oraclet has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, a provider of cloud-based Clinical Trial Operations (CTO) applications that make …
A billion thanks
Sixteen years ago, few imagined that a handful of people at a Linux start-up in North Carolina were laying the …
Dell launches XPS 13 Ultrabook
Dell today joined the region’s Ultrabook market with the launch of its XPS 13 laptop, which it says solves the …