The exponential growth of data volumes is creating unprecedented levels of complexity for IT executives, according to an IDC Digital …
Apple Chairman Steve Jobs dead at 56
Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who resigned from the company in the mid-1980s and returned a decade later to make …
Public cloud services market in APAC to hit US $12bn: Ovum
The Asia-Pacific (AP) public cloud services market will increase five fold over the next five years with revenues of US$12billion …
Apple: It’s the iPhone 4S, not the iPhone 5
Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook and other company executives introduced the new iPhone 4S, an upgrade to the existing iPhone …
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance taps growing enterprise need: analysts
Oracle’s new Big Data Appliance, officially introduced yesterday at the Oracle OpenWorld2011 conference here, should appeal to enterprises looking for …
Jumbo returns to GITEX Shopper
Jumbo Electronics, the UAE-based consumer electronics giant, will return to GITEX Shopper with great values on the latest gadgets, free …
Ellison unveils ‘Exalytics’ in-memory machine
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled the Exalytics Intelligence Machine, the latest member of the company’s products that combine software and …
Microstrategy targets Excel users with Cloud Personal BI
Microstrategy is hoping to get its BI (business intelligence) software in front of people looking to get more out of …
AMD reduces third-quarter revenue projection
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) yesterday reduced its revenue projection for its third fiscal quarter ending Oct. 1, citing manufacturing yield …
Microsoft signs Android licensing deal with Samsung
Microsoft has signed a cross-license patent agreement with Samsung Electronics that grants Microsoft royalties from Samsung’s Android-based smartphones and tablets, …
IBM to lead $4.4 billion chip investment
Five chip makers, including Intel, IBM, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have committed investment of US$4.4 billion …
Smart grids pave way for efficient energy: Huawei
With energy consumption in the Middle East set to double in the next decade, electric utilities and energy providers need …
HP customers seek stability with Whitman
Hewlett-Packard customers disconcerted by management shakeups and product strategy shifts are hoping for a stable future with Meg Whitman, who …
EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform
EMC’s Greenplum subsidiary recently announced a new capability to its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance (DCA) that allows users to mix …
Dell Latitude 2120- rugged and overpriced
Dell touts the Latitude 2120 as the ideal netbook for business. That engenders the question: is an old-school, underperforming, under-screened …
“Consumerisation of IT” taking its toll on IT managers: survey
“Consumerisation of IT” may be an overused phrase, but it is by no means a fad. Workers all over the …
Microsoft CEO hints at ‘Metro-isation’ of Office
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer over the weekend strongly hinted that the company will craft a Metro-style version of the next …
Iomega personal cloud
This solution allows individual ownership over how and where to access and share data. This is a personal network connecting …
Peripheral pressure
Printer, display and storage vendors are facing a host of game changing pressures from multiple and varied areas Across the …
99.999% availability
Fault tolerant servers from Stratus have redundant components and can ensure annual downtime is less than 6 minutes Stratus Technologies …